Benchmark Software

Looking around for some decent benchmark software.

I currently use Sandra (System Analyzer, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant)

Of course, there is the standard PCMark and 3DMark suites, but I can't deal with the limited test customization and reports that come with the free versions.

More often than not I find myself using utilities tailored to specific purposes, HDTune, Memtest etc. but it would be nice to find a decent suite with advanced reporting features. So far Sandra has been great, but it's filled with a bunch of shit I really don't care about, looking for something with the same testing capabilities but without the bloat, preferably open-source. A lot to ask for it seems.

Don't post anything that isn't at least freeware, I'll be using the software in a commercial environment, so obtaining activated copies through illegitimate means is out of the question.

In our shop we use cinebench for CPU, and crystaldiskmark 3.0 for hard drive benchmarks. Furmark is also a good one for GPU. Can't think of any open source suites other than sandra though

EDIT: a quick google brings up the Phoronix Test Suite looks promising and open source as well.

Phoronix would be great if I didn't have to use curl in order to install it, it's my goto suite for Linux though.

Curious but what kind of commercial environment requires you to use benchmarking software? I work in tech at a local community college and more often than not I end up either popping in memtest for a few minutes or doing a chkdsk on a hard drive to spot for problems. Bad luck this week. Had to recycle about 8 4gb sticks of ram and 3 faulty hard drives. Also doesn't help when we run an A+ class and the students end up building the machines for us. Some of them don't turn out so well. But they have to learn somehow I guess.

However if there was a single piece of software that ran diagnostics on everything via a live cd or bootable usb I would love to try it out.

Edit: actually I totally forgot about the ultimate boot cd. that should make things a little simpler

Aw man, so ram doesn't double as a comb?

And I guess another thing is are you simply needing these suites to generate actual values or just for stress testing them?

I work for an IT solutions and services company, we do everything from enterprise systems management and architecture development to remote and on-site support to fixing and repairing whatever tech comes our way. Occasionally we get a client that asks us to OC some hardware or diagnose more specific performance problems and this is where detailed benchmark reports come in handy. For instance, if I can prove that a recently installed unit isn't performing up to the promised specifications under an acceptable environment using the detailed reports provided by benchmark software it can then be labeled as defective and returned under warranty. This is especially useful in cases where the hardware is rather expensive (a $4,000 Xenon processor, for instance) and the manufacturer is less than willing to replace it if the problems aren't immediately obvious.



Generating actual values and detailed reports, stress testing naturally being a requirement in order to acquire the values and reports.

There was a program that put your cpu and gpu through it's paces in a 3d test (think it was just called 3d test or something) and it went through graphics heavy things to test and rank the gpu, and then did a physics test, and tested the cpu and ranked it.
Last I did it, I did it with some friends, and my gpu ranked fairly well, whilst cpu was fairly behind. Theirs was all about the same. (ie mine was like 7520~ gpu and 4120 cpu, whilst theirs were both 8520~ on both accounts)

that was fairly good.
Another one I had had the option to push cpu, gpu and everything to their limits to see how hot they got. That was a good one. Can't recall the name of that. It's in the computer somewhere