Performance Testing- OverviewAt BSN* we break out testing into two parts: Synthetic and Real-World. Each has an important part in the overall review process. With Synthetic testing you have an easily repeatable performance measure than anyone can use against the same hardware configuration. But Synthetic testing cannot hope to provide a completely accurate picture of performance. These testing suites do not have the capacity to take multiple factors into account. On the opposite side are the real-world tests. They are duplicates of how a system [or part] will perform in actual use. However as they take into account the dynamic nature of real-world use they are hard to duplicate. As such our testing will always be an average of three runs on each test. The results shown here will be that average. We feel this combination offers the best overall picture of performance and how well the product will perform for the consumer when they get it home and installed in a system.
Performance – Applications [Synthetic]Each of our synthetic tests cover a different aspect of system performance. Taken as a whole they provide a very broad overview of how well each board or product we have in the lab will perform for you once you get it home.
PCMark VantagePCMark Vantage is a suite of tests that covers the most complete range of system task possible. It is true that it cannot hope to cover every possible activity but it does an excellent job of covering the majority and providing the end user with a good idea of how well a system can complete common tasks.
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As you can see the P7P55D Deluxe does an excellent job running the PCMark Vantage testing suite.
HyperPi 0.99bHyperPi is an application that is capable of running multiple instances of SuperPi XS 1.3 on a system. It allows you to select the number of instances you wish to run as well as the length you want to calculate the number Pi out to [up to 32 million places]. For our testing we run one instance per core both physical and logical. On the i7 870 this is a total of eight 32M instances which puts a healthy strain on the CPU, memory and dive. It is also a good indication of how well the mainboard can handle the large amounts of data being passed back and forth.
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The P7P55D Deluxe does a good job here with HyperPi but we can see the impact of running two 32M instances per CPU core.
Cinebench R-10 x64Cinebench is a synthetic render test developed by Maxon. Maxon is the maker of Cinema 4D, one of the industry standards in 3D animation. This test covers CPU based rendering as well as how your GPU/system is able to handle OpenGL instructions. Cinebench is capable of testing rendering against a single CPU core as well as spreading the rendering task across all available cores. For our testing we used the R-10 64-bit version.
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Again we see good performance from the P7P55D Deluxe.
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