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CustomPC Benchmark
CustomPC benchmark use widely available open-source applications to carry out the tasks that most of us perform on a regular basis. There are three tests, each of which measure different aspects of a PC’s performance. These tests themselves are not synthetic benchmarks but instead they use real world image, video and multi-tasking tasks to test the performance of your computer. We are looking to see if tasks are faster on the SSD than the HDD and which SSD is fastest overall.
The tests are:
- GIMP Image Editing
- H.264 Video Encoding
- Multi-tasking
Here are the results expressed in a chart:
All of the SSDs are a few seconds faster than the HDD in each task, the biggesst difference being in multi-tasking; and there is really only slight variation overall between the SSDs.
Super Pi
Here is Super Pi which calculates Pi to 32 million places if you like. We ran Super Pi on our HDD and then on our 3 SSDs to see if there was any difference.
Let’s compare the speed of the drives to see if there is any difference.
No difference really. Please continue on to Fritz Chess Bench.
Fritz Chess Bench
Fritz Chess Benchmark is found within the game’s program files and basically it crunches numbers to test your processor’s speed. Deep Fritz takes advantage of massive calculations and multi-threaded performance to work any CPU fully. It loads all threads 100%.
Besides showing relative speed when compared to a P3 1.0GHz CPU, it also shows the nodes completed. The faster your CPU, the more nodes completed.
The HDD makes no practical difference.
CINEBENCH
CINEBENCH is based on MAXON’s professional 3D content creation suite, CINEMA 4D. This latest 11.5 version of CINEBENCH can test up to 64 processor threads accurately and automatically.
Now we run the benchmarks and chart our results; first is the OpenGL test:
Of course, there is no practical difference in the CPU test and only slight variations in the OpenGL test.
X264
Basically this test encodes a HD video clip into a x264 video file. The first pass is very quick and the second one is much slower and much more demanding of a task as it does the actual encoding. This benchmark is heavily multi-threaded.
Here is the chart of our results.
The end user can feel free to use his HDD for x264. Generally a lot of storage is needed anyway and there is not a lot of difference in performace.
