Geekbench is a completely awesome cross-platform benchmark that you can use for measuring the performance of your PC's processor and RAM.
Geekbench also offers the sexy Geekbench Result Browser which lets you compare your Geekbench scores with other Geekbench users.
Multi-threaded benchmarks:
· Geekbench's processor benchmarks (every one!) run in both single-threaded and multi-threaded modes letting you see the performance increase multiple cores (or multiple processors) bring to your system.
64-bit benchmarks:
· Geekbench is available in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions. Run both versions on a 64-bit operating system to see the increase (or decrease) 64-bit applications bring to your system.
Result Browser:
· Submit your results to the Geekbench Result Browser and share your results with your friends and other Geekbench users. Create an account and keep track of your Geekbench results online.
SIMD benchmarks:
· Geekbench features a number of benchmarks that use SIMD instructions (both Altivec and SSE) letting you see the performance increase SIMD-aware applications bring to your system.
Rosetta benchmarks:
· Geekbench is available in both Universal and Rosetta versions for Mac OS X. Run the Rosetta version on your Intel-based Mac to find out how quickly it runs PowerPC applications, or to find out how much of a performance advantage Universal applications bring.
Requirements:
· Intel Pentium II or AMD Athlon processor
· 512MB of RAM
Limitations:
· Only available in 32 bit benchmark.
What's New in This Release:
· Moved 32-bit and 64-bit benchmarks into the same user interface.
· Added a new hardware stress test.
· Added a new command-line tool
· Added new "Export As..." commands.
· Added a new document-based interface on Windows.
· Added new hardware information on Windows (processor socket, processor codename, northbridge, and southbridge)
· Added support for the latest AMD and Intel processors.
· Redesigned Geekbench result presentation.
· Improved hardware detection
· Fixed a bug that caused some Geekbench workloads to misreport performance on 8-core systems.
· Fixed processor cache detection bugs on late-model AMD and Intel processors.
· Fixed a startup crash that could occur on Lion.
· Fixed a crash that could occur when loading saved Geekbench files.
· Fixed processor core counts for late-model AMD processors.
· Fixed a bug that could cause Geekbench results to render incorrectly.
· Fixed registration bugs some users encountered when registering.
· Fixed thread affinity bugs on multi-so...