Computer benchmarking

OK, I've been using a really old and slow Win7 computer at work, to go with our really old and slow internet connection, so as we're finally getting fibre (waiting for the final install, we now have a live fibre coiled up outside) I decided to order a new computer. It also wouldn't run the latest version of Bambu Studio, and I had to revert to the previous version.

Having done the same a couple of years ago at home I decided to order a Games Computer, not that I play games particularly but it seems the most cost effective way of getting a reasonably priced and specified computer. For mine at home I ordered it with a middling spec graphics card, for work I just had it with the in-built graphics. My home machine is an i7 (and thus won't run Win11), so I ordered an AMD Ryzen 5, with Win11 pre-installed.

I've got most things installed on it now, and data swapped over, so I decided to Benchmark it using:


The new machine scored 6105.7, the old Win7 machine scored 592.5 - so I'm quite pleased with that

I'll check my i7 when I get home later.

I use my i7 3770 on Win7 and Win11 with 32 GB of RAM but didn't like the performance until I migrated to SSD and ran "Debloater" and some tools for a Classic Start menu and better Taskbar tools. Now it runs as fast or faster than a debloated Win7 but I deactivated Win Updates and the Win Store and uninstalled Edge, and disabled a bunch of Scheduled Tasks. I have some 20 yrs experience customizing Windoze to make it look and perform how the user wants it without major upgrades. IF anyone wants my assistance, send me note.

My i7 is an old Dell Optiplex 7010 and CPU-z tests it at 1737 multicore, but it boots in 20 secs and opens Firefox with 8 tabs to this page refreshed in 3 seconds. https://valid.x86.fr/6wmr3i

Well just tried my home machine, and it scored 3886.4 - I should have sent myself a copy of the new work machine results to compare, anyway I've sent a copy of this one to work, so I'll compare tomorrow.

Like you, I held out on Win7 on i7 until last year, but you can get a non-TPM version of Win11 that works on old i7's. It took too long to make superfast, and there really is a lot of bloatware on Win10/11, but I am very pleased with the results. Planned obsolescence, not. Here are some global stats https://valid.x86.fr/statistics.html

I'm still running the very first i7 processor (came out in 2008), the i7-920 on this machine. With a simple 1GB video card, 12GB ram and SSD, i get a passmark of 1528. Win10 runs just fine.
I don't do serious gaming, so this machine seems to do all I need it to do...
I do have some machines with 3rd gen i5 processors and laptop(s) with 6th gen and 10th gen i5, and find that while they do run faster, my web surfing or spreadsheets are not really any different than my trusty i7-920 desktop.
Actually, I'm surprised that this old i7 still keeps up with most demands.

sagor1 said:

I'm still running the very first i7 processor (came out in 2008), the i7-920 on this machine. With a simple 1GB video card, 12GB ram and SSD, i get a passmark of 1528. Win10 runs just fine.
I don't do serious gaming, so this machine seems to do all I need it to do...
I do have some machines with 3rd gen i5 processors and laptop(s) with 6th gen and 10th gen i5, and find that while they do run faster, my web surfing or spreadsheets are not really any different than my trusty i7-920 desktop.
Actually, I'm surprised that this old i7 still keeps up with most demands.

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I just ran it again, after rebooting, having nothing else running, and scored 3966 - it's an i7-3770 running at 3.4GHz, 16Gb RAM, 1Tb SSD (upgraded from 256Gb last Saturday), 1Tb HDD, and an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1010Ti graphics card.

I'm pretty happy with it's performance, but it's got a startlingly small motherboard

I don't like Intel, I've used AMD for 20+ years in desktops. I am just in the process of setting up a new machine as the one I've used for the last few years has developed a motherboard problem (sometimes taking a while to start up, no BIOS beeps or signs of life sometimes for half an hour or more - but sometimes instant, and always fine once it does start up).

I keep PCs running as long as I can as I don't like the hassle of reinstalling everything. They are both running Windows 10.

The old one (Ryzen 9 3950X) has a CPU benchmark of 36926 and overall passmark score 9806; the new one (Ryzen 9 9950X) has a CPU score of 67280, with overall 8691, due to it having an ancient junk box GPU in it until it's got everything I need installed and I swap the good one (RTX 3060ti) from this machine.

Well, I'm in at work, just compared the results - the CPU is by far the biggest difference, my i7 at home scores 6423, but the AMD Ryzen at work scores 26034

In fact, the new Ryzen beats my i7 on every test, other than 3D graphics, where the i7 scores 6435 and the Ryzen 5344 - on the 2D graphics, the Ryzen is almost double the i7.

Yep, I've always found them to be good; not cheap, but I don't like upgrading so get the highest spec CPU I can afford, so it's still OK in a few years time.
The only reason I'm replacing this is that it's acting up, while all voltage readings etc. are correct & no visible problems, when it has power on but has not started up..

I do like the Intel low power CPUs; my Panasonic laptop has around 12 hour battery life & the little Chinese mini PCs (sold as router/firewall machines) with N100 CPUs are brilliant, fanless so totally quiet and quite fast - I use one for my home automation system & have done a couple for friends.