Benchmarks?How about real world tests

[HungChow]

so far what I have seen is that bench marks dont mean that much,I think something like compressing the exact same clip into cinepack in adobe premere would be a better benchmark for motherboards and cpus
if it doesnt crash in premere then it must be damn stable
if it cuts compression time then by how much
synthetic benchmarks are not as good

 

[SuperFreaky]

specifically which benchmarks are you talking about?
The goal of a benchmark is to mirror a real world test, but make it reproducable on many computers....

 

[Wingznut]

I like to see gaming benchmarks. Timedemos and such...

However, I'm sick of seeing sites that only use Q3. Different chips perform differently in different games.

I'd like to see a system that uses a combination of games. Like Q3 + UT + MDK2... or something like that. There's a gaming mag with something similar. "3dGameGauge" or something like that. Although I don't think that particular example is perfect... It's better than just seeing a Q3 timedemo and that's it.

 

[Ulysses]

I noticed that in AnandTech's recent test of the Celeron II 700 CPU he used the following benchmarks:

Gaming:
GT Interactive Unreal Tournament 4.20 AnandTechCPU.dem
idSoftware Quake III Arena v1.16n demo001.dm3
Rage Software Expendable Timedemo

Productivity:
BAPCo SYSMark 2000
Ziff Davis Content Creation Winstone 2000
Ziff Davis High-End Winstone 99
SPECviewperf 6.1.1

That's a lot of testing, and one can pick out from those tests the ones that are most applicable.


I believe that Adobe Premier is utilized in one of the ZD programs.