The Phenom II Benchmark is a small set of low level benchmarks for testing hardware speed against a Phenom II 810 Quad Core from 2009 and some other CPU's. I'm currently working on adding ARM-support to make old and modern x86-Systems more comparable to ARM-based-Systems like the Raspberry Pi.
The benchmarks use all threads and cores of a CPU, and execute 100 billion iterations of some specific instruction using heavily unrolled loops for pipelining. The program has the timings which my old Phenom II 810 scores for each of the benchmarks, and prints out how many CPUs your CPU is, i.e. how much faster than a Phenom II the hardware is. A score of 2 Phenom II's means your hardware executed the instructions twice as fast.
The aim of this project is to highlight some of the nuances in the speed of hardware. And show, while hardware is generally improving in speed, there are some things old hardware does as fast or faster. As i own various systems it is nice to see how the differ...
I was surprised and fascinated by the results. There are many things the old Phenom does much faster than a modern CPU, although they are generally single threaded, and these tests do not currently appear in the benchmark. Modern CPU's have larger SIMD registers and more cores, but are otherwise not much faster.
There are other things the Phenom II does very well, and I'd love to explore further if there is interest in improving this tool.
Anywho, have a good one all, DL and run the app yourself, find today: How Many CPU's is my CPU! :)