* What is Benchmarking? Benchmarking is a performance test of hardware and/or software. The process evaluates and compares devices or systems. Processors are frequently benchmarked, in the hopes of coming up with a single number that can capture the value of the CPU and let it be easily compared to others. * Why Can Benchmarking Be Useful? The value of benchmarking is that it allows us to compare hardware and/or software. The problem with it …showed first 75 words of 642 total…

…showed last 75 words of 642 total…Then, fire up your favourite app and put the stopwatch on it to see how long it takes it to do its thing. I know that people will continue using synthetic benchmarks, kernels, and suites as a matter of practicality; most real-world apps don't generate charts, graphs, and numerical scores to tell you how we'll they're performing on your system. But the reality is that you can't find a better benchmark than a real app.