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Re: which program can test cpu speed

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On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 05:19:58PM +0000, Long Wind wrote:
>is there any general-purpose testing utility? i remember in  early days some
>program for DOS can report benchmark, (maybe made by nordon?) .  and intel 486
>always seems faster than 386.

Try something like 
http://www.cpu-world.com/Compare/803/AMD_Athlon_64_X2_3800+_(Socket_AM2__35W__IAA)_vs_Intel_Pentium_D_820.html
(guessing on the cpus, you were a bit vague)

>The performance of a given system depends on the task.  Some systems
>are better at single-threaded integer calculations, some have more
>cores so they're better in a multitasking environment, some have better
>floating point optimizations, some have more cache and therefore perform
>better when code jumps all over the place, etc.
>
>You need to benchmark the systems for whatever task YOU actually care
>about.  Whatever program you're using that makes you think "gosh, I
>really wish this system could be faster" -- that's the one you use to
>benchmark.  It could be compiling the Linux kernel, or transcoding
>video and audio, or calculating prime factors of large numbers, or
>first-person shooter video games, or whatever it is that you do.

The above was good advice. There's no such thing as "a general 
benchmark"; there are benchmarks to test integer performance, 
benchmarks to test floating point performance, benchmarks to test 
graphics, benchmarks to test storage, etc. If you don't have any 
specific task that you want to test, then suffice it to say that both 
systems are equally slow by modern standards. I'd expect that the AMD 
CPU is a bit better/has more functionality, but you probably won't be 
able to tell the difference. The graphics on a 10 year old system are 
likely to be a bigger issue than the CPU. You'd probably get 
dramatically better results by replacing whatever the hard drive is 
with an SSD rather than by agonizing over the CPU selection.

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which program can test cpu speed Long Wind <longwind2@yahoo.com> - 2018-10-26 05:10 +0200
  Re: which program can test cpu speed Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2018-10-26 08:00 +0200
    Re: which program can test cpu speed Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2018-10-26 10:30 +0200
      Re: which program can test cpu speed arne <sp113438@telfort.nl> - 2018-10-26 10:50 +0200
        Re: which program can test cpu speed Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2018-10-26 11:00 +0200
          Re: which program can test cpu speed arne <sp113438@telfort.nl> - 2018-10-26 11:10 +0200
    Re: which program can test cpu speed Long Wind <longwind2@yahoo.com> - 2018-10-26 10:30 +0200
    Re: which program can test cpu speed Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2018-10-26 16:00 +0200
      Re: which program can test cpu speed Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2018-10-26 16:40 +0200
        Re: which program can test cpu speed Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2018-10-26 17:10 +0200
          Re: which program can test cpu speed David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-10-26 20:50 +0200
            Re: which program can test cpu speed Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2018-10-26 21:20 +0200
        Re: which program can test cpu speed Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-10-26 20:00 +0200
          Re: which program can test cpu speed Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2018-10-26 20:20 +0200
            Re: which program can test cpu speed Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2018-10-26 22:20 +0200
    Re: which program can test cpu speed mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2018-10-26 16:30 +0200
      Re: which program can test cpu speed Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2018-10-26 16:40 +0200
  Re: which program can test cpu speed Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de> - 2018-10-26 10:40 +0200
  Re: which program can test cpu speed Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-10-26 14:40 +0200
    Re: which program can test cpu speed Long Wind <longwind2@yahoo.com> - 2018-10-26 19:30 +0200
      Re: which program can test cpu speed Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2018-10-26 20:10 +0200
        Re: which program can test cpu speed Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2018-10-26 20:50 +0200

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