On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 03:05:36AM +0000, Long Wind wrote: > any package that test cpu/system speed and report benchmark? > i have 2 old pc: intel pentium D 2.8 G and amd athlon 64 3800i bought them > from 2nd hand dealers for about same priceso i think they're about same speed
The performance of a given system depends on the task. Some systems are better at single-threaded integer calculations, some have more cores so they're better in a multitasking environment, some have better floating point optimizations, some have more cache and therefore perform better when code jumps all over the place, etc. You need to benchmark the systems for whatever task YOU actually care about. Whatever program you're using that makes you think "gosh, I really wish this system could be faster" -- that's the one you use to benchmark. It could be compiling the Linux kernel, or transcoding video and audio, or calculating prime factors of large numbers, or first-person shooter video games, or whatever it is that you do.
