Questions tagged [benchmarking]
For questions regarding the measurement and comparison of performance of retrocomputers.
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What happened in the graphics card benchmark scandal in the 1980s?
In the mid 80s, PC magazine said that a graphics card vendor submitted a card that performed so much better than all the others that they looked into it, and found out that either the card or the ...
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Has anyone run the Dhrystone MIPS 2.1 benchmark on a stock, 2.8MHz, Apple IIgs?
I can't find any Dhrystone MIPS figures for the Apple IIgs, be it the stock 2.8 MHZ WDC 65C816 variant, or any of the overclocked or accelerator card packing variants. Has anyone tried the benchmark ...
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What's the Norton SI of my new PC? [closed]
In the field, the benchmark I used everywhere was the Norton Utilities Sysinfo Benchmark.
It measured computer power in units of IBM PC horsepower. So the 8088 PC got an SI of 1. The AT had an SI of ...
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Where can one find "the Puzzle benchmark" from Hennessy’s MIPS paper?
I'm reading Hennessy's original MIPS paper. At the end, it includes estimated performance using "The Puzzle benchmark". The reference for this reads:
Baskett, F., "Puzzle: an informal ...
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Relay computer performance
I'm looking for performance data on relay based computers, and even human based computers. Performance, as in, time to perform an addition, multiple, etc.
The Nordhaus data is all I have been able to ...
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Did the ARM-1 really outperform the 387?
According to a comment on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31985142
The first benchmarks indicated the plain Archimedes had higher FP throughput than a 16MHz 386 with a 387.
The original ...
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What's the best sw/hw setup to benchmark old GPUs?
For a brief intro - I've been collecting old GPUs for the past 15+ years (I have around 100 of them, starting from year 1996 (1MB SiS) till around 2008 (GTX280), representing each generation of ...
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Benchmark test that was used to characterize an 8-bit CPU?
I was curious if there was a benchmark test that was available to compare CPUs that are 8-bit. People always like meaningless analysis to justify some decision, and I was curious if there was a ...
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Commodore BASIC: why was the PET's GOTO so slow?
Received wisdom has it that Commodore didn't want to pay Microsoft extra for updated BASIC interpreters, and thus very little changed in Commodore BASIC v2 from the PETs to the C64. But consider the ...
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How good was Woz's FP code?
I just came across this amazing 1976 article by Woz. In it he describes a relatively complete floating-point system for the 6502 with a 32-bit format (similar to earlier MS code).
I understand the ...
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Where can I read the article from Personal Computer World, Nov 1978, which introduced the 8th Rugg/Feldman test program?
I'm trying to track down a copy of PCW from November 1978. I am looking for an article on benchmarking BASIC. They introduced an 8th program to the 7-program Rugg/Feldman test and I'd like to read the ...
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First appearance of the Sieve in Byte *as a benchmark*?
I've documented the Ahl benchmark's history, and now I would like to do the same for Byte's version of the sieve. Does anyone have a pointer to the first appearance of this code as a benchmarking tool ...
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(Modern?) Examples of Creative Computing/Ahl benchmark being used?
I've recently written a Wiki article on the Creative Computing benchmark. I was wondering if anyone has examples of it being used outside Creative Computing?
I've found one example in Compute!, but I'...
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ZX BASIC REM statement overhead
Since my other question has been answered and has given me a way to do high-precision timing, I've been experimenting with it a bit. The first thing I did was write a simple benchmark using the FRAMES ...
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Benchmark between Home computers? What can be a valid parameter for that?
I'm writing my thesis about the home computer market between 1977 and 1984 (focusing on Commodore Inc.so PET, VIC-20 and 64 and competitors). I'm trying to plot a curve describing the technological ...
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