When it comes to general performance, many things have to be tested. To start, we utilize AIDA64 Engineer to check on memory latency and read-, write-, and copy speeds; CPU Queen is used for a comparison across various processors.
Cinebench R15 offers a look into single- and multi-core performance that is easy to understand and comparable across several generations of today's hardware.
PCMark 10 offers a look into general computing performance, replacing the venerable PCMark 8. The newer version now leverages the graphics processor by default compared to the separate conventional and accelerated tests of the older release.
Finally, SPECviewperf 13 is used to verify graphical performance in a variety of professional workloads.
AIDA64 Cache and Memory Benchmarks
AIDA64 CPU Queen
Cinebench R15
PCMark 10
SPECviewperf 13