PC BENCHMARK

       

 Wondering about your desktop’s performance? Have you benchmarked your device without knowing what it is properly? Worrying about Benchmark score?

 You may be a little upset or happy about your desktop performance based on Benchmark. But you need to know how Benchmark works. In this article, I'm gonna clear this thing in detail,

which is good and which is bad, is pc benchmark software is reliable?

 

       Some of you heard about Benchmarking and some of you don’t and even some of you compare your system with the help of a Benchmark score. Then what is Benchmark? Benchmark is the act of running a set of standard computer programs or test suites to get the relative performance of the pc component or the system. 

Generally, it is an assessment of any system in a structured manner. Benchmark is also related to the term called Benchmarking which is comparing the systems. Benchmark tests both hardware well as software. 

     

Why do we need Benchmark? 

When computer architectures are the same we can easily compare the systems.  As the technology evolved the computer architecture became diversified.

 In a real-world application, the CPU which runs at a lower clock speed performs equal to the CPU which runs at a higher clock speed in different computer architecture respectively. It became hard to compare two different architectures. 

For example, you want to compare Intel processor with AMD processor simply we can not compare because both processors have different architectures. 

So we needed a new way to measure performance. Thus the Benchmark concept is introduced. This method helps to compare how well a system performs against another system.  

Major types in Benchmark

1. Synthetic Benchmark 

2. Real-world or Application Benchmark

   

    Synthetic Benchmark:

1.                                       These tests are designed to have maximum repeatability to get an accurate measurement of components with minimal bottlenecks across different isolated states. 

2. This makes it easier to test individual parts like hard disk, battery, processor. So Synthetic benchmark performs the components of the computer. We can call it a component-level benchmark because its test suites are designed to operate with components with a high workload.

3. The main disadvantage is it does not replicate the end-user experience.

         For example, consider you installed a high-end graphics card with a normal set up like low ram or old processor and a monitor, in real-world applications like gaming, video editing you won’t get the maximum efficiency of the graphic card. It is more concentrated on components. To overcome this disadvantage we will use the Application benchmark.

 

 Application Benchmark:

   In this case, a real-world workload is given to your computer or a system like 3D rendering, file compression and tested how fast it completes the task. The real-world benchmark counts the whole system as one. The real-world benchmark replicates the user experience. We won’t get any component performance. Most importantly Bottlenecks are included. 

 

Advantages and disadvantages of Benchmark

Advantages

• By running benchmark tests you can get the performance of your system and its capability. 

• It helps manufacture CPUs. While manufacturing CPUs designers can design CPUs for the desired purpose by observing their benchmarks. These benchmarks are called industrial benchmarks. 

• While purchasing the gadget real-world benchmarks will guide you to buy the desired gadget.

• Benchmarks are mainly introduced to compare two systems, so it is very handy to compare two systems. 

Disadvantages  

       

•  Manufacturers may manipulate the market by industry benchmarks which are built just to test the desired purpose and have no real-world applications.

•  Cost of ownership: Benchmarks don’t consider the cost of the system or gadget. If you want to buy a gadget that has the highest benchmark scores it may cost too much or it is not a value for money gadget.

• Quality of services: It does not measure system security, reliability and durability and execution integrity. These are also vital characteristics of the gadget.

• Benchmarks just give the raw performance but not the efficiency, cooling system, power consumed by the system. 

Can we purchase a gadget by its Benchmark score?!

I don’t recommend you to buy a mobile, laptop or any other gadget only based on its industrial benchmark or any other benchmark score. If you are getting a real-world benchmark for your application as well as for your gadget then I would recommend you to buy the device.

Having a high benchmark score for the device is great, but at the same time, your operating system should be able to manage its hardware in the right way in that case you will get maximum efficiency. 

Conclusion 

                    As I explained above, a benchmark has its pros and cons. These days the benchmark is somehow overrated.

Tip: A system that has an average benchmark may be enough for your work.If you are a gamer or video editor run GPU benchmark software.

Benchmark in-depth assess some parameters. For your application, every parameter is not required. Benchmarks don’t tell you about everything but it tells you about some part of the system. If you want to compare different devices then you should consider benchmarks.

                     

                                                                                                                         -  Abhishek Bhat