General Performance

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 comparisons across various processors and acts as a quick test to see if the processor is performing as it should.

Cinebench R15 and Cinebench R20 offer a look into single and multi-core performance. It can be run by anyone and allows for hardware comparisons across several generations. To prepare for future systems with higher core counts, we have added Cinebench R20. Cinebench R15 will still be run as it allows for a direct comparison with previously reviewed systems.

To further test CPU performance, we also utilize the Blender BMW benchmark render. Three runs are done to verify the results.

In Adobe Premiere Pro, we track a subject through a scene as a moderate workload; it also makes use of a great deal of system memory. Like the blender test above, three runs are done to verify the results which are all included in the chart for comparison.

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 separately conducted 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

Cinebench R20

Blender

Adobe Premiere Pro

PCMark 10

SPECviewperf 13