cpu-benchmarks.md

CPU benchmarks

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instructions_per_cycle
  • Useless metric because of CISC vs RISC
• http://cpuboss.com/ lists a few:
  • parallel:
    • https://compubench.com/result.jsp
    • http://www.passmark.com/
• http://www.eembc.org/ulpbench/
• http://parsec.cs.princeton.edu/ Multicore focus
• http://gem5.org/Splash_benchmarks TODO focus?
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBench TODO focus? Canonical source? Not to be confused with the C# benchmark: https://github.com/petabridge/NBench

Low level:

• DMIPS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhrystone

  • specially DMIPS / Watt.

• http://lmbench.sourceforge.net/ Description:

  lmbench is a suite of simple, portable, ANSI/C microbenchmarks for UNIX/POSIX. In general, it measures two key features: latency and bandwidth.

  GitHub mirror: https://github.com/dmonakhov/lmbench