Thursday, March 26, 2009

How good is your processor?

Sometimes you may think "how good is my processor?" or "which one shall I get for my new PC?".
It used to be very easy. Back in '90s or at the very beginning of this decade everything was clear. 486 was better than 386, Pentium 3 was better than Pentium 1, and any 800MHz CPU (central processor unit) was worse than a 1GHz.
Now CPU manufacturers use names that say literally nothing. How knows what AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core TK-55 or Intel Pentium Dual E2200 @ 2.20GHz actually mean? Which one is better? It's all because it's not only speed that matters, there's plenty of other factors like a size and spacing of the processor's transistors, bus speed, size of L1 cache and L2 cache etc.
Confusing, very much.
Fortunately you can compare your CPU against other types and models on http://www.cpubenchmark.net/.
Brilliant site collecting benchmark data from real users and a whole spectrum of CPUs. You can also compare your video card http://www.cpubenchmark.net/,
hard drives http://www.harddrivebenchmark.net/
and whole systems http://www.passmark.com/baselines/index.php.
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