How to Benchmark a Processor

How to Benchmark a Processor
by Paul McLellan on 08-15-2013 at 2:11 am

How do you benchmark a processor? It seems like it should be easy, just run some code and see how fast it is. Traditionally processors were indeed benchmarked by raw performance like GMACS, GFLOPS, memory bandwidth and so on. But in today’s world where systems have become very complex and applications very compute intensive, the… Read More