Looking for a special CPU benchmark

[Dave3000]

I'm looking for a special CPU benchmark that can make use of 4 cores but not constantly. The reason I want to test my CPU out that way is because I don't believe that games that use 4 cores, don't used all 4 cores consistently, but cores get called upon when needed. In the synthetic multithreaded CPU benchmarks like Cinebench consistently use all cores on the multicore CPU benchmark. Another reason is that I would like to see the effect of C3 and C6 power states have in a CPU benchmark that does not consistently use all cores (latencies of cores waking up when called upon if C3 and C6 are enabled).

 

[Loki726]

Why not just use a game that you think has this behaviour?

It is often very difficult to find a benchmark that exactly matches the characteristics of a specific application because there are many factors at play, and the specific factor that limits the performance of your application is not always obvious.

 

[sm625]

Just download the source code to a pi calculator and then insert delays how you see fit.

 

[isawthedevil]

try bf4 beta

 

[Ed1]

If you are just trying to load cpu the same, you can use prime95 but instead of running all threads just use less like on quad core , run 2 threads .
I find this is close to many games as far as temp and load .

If your looking to stress same code type , then some kind of game BM would be best depending on game type (CPU verse GPU bottlenecks ) .