Changes/Update for v2.0

[Arne Saknussemm]

Yes I agree! RealBench is a class act and the proposed additions will only make it better.....nice idea ROG and excellent execution Nodens! I can really see this being my go to system test.

[Nodens]

Very glad to hear that mate! Much better than CPU cooking for 8 hours

[Detleg]

Yes Sire, what they said +1

[xmanrigger]

I just want to say that this bench is one of the best stability checks I have yet to find. If any of my systems pass this bench then they do not crash.

Respect to you Nodens.

Exactly what he said ^^^^^^^^^^

Currently there's no OpenCL benchmark out there at all. And OpenCL (GPU Computing) is something very useful to people that do image editing, video processing/encoding and 3d rendering considering it boosts the speed of those applications by A LOT.

GPU performance should be part of the system wide score I believe. It affects games (we're Republic of Gamers after all heh) and people doing image/video/3d work (all the main workloads for high end hardware)..

I agree, GPU is part of any system. Thing is, as soon as you include this, then there would be others wanting a 3D test. Then this and that. Soon it becomes bloated.

This bench in function as is, is perfect for subsystem overclock stability testing. Bare bones. All that is needed.

While I like this idea, this is quite problematic to implement. Sure, I can get current frequency from the operating system API, but reading voltages is a WHOLE other story. It requires me to write a driver to access Super I/O chips. Considering how many different chips are there, and different implementations of sensors etc etc it would be a full time job just to maintain this. It would be like writing something like HWInfo/SpeedFan/AIDA from scratch and supporting it for all possible hardware configurations. This is not really feasable unless there's an open library+driver that already does that, which I could use to read stuff on a higher level and hardware support would be limited to what that library+driver supports. I will look for it but I doubt there's something that I can use available..

I obviously have no coding knowledge. You are right, voltage sounds like a cluster to try and implement. Basic ifo would be nice though.

Thank you for your time, effort, and knowledge put into this. You da man.

[Nodens]

I agree, GPU is part of any system. Thing is, as soon as you include this, then there would be others wanting a 3D test. Then this and that. Soon it becomes bloated.

Including this is essentially a 3D test. And surely we're not going to bloat it or make a test in the terms of 3DMark. A simple OpenGL test that represents Graphics performance. For sure we're not going to bloat it or add things randomly.

My proposal is that we add OpenGL test as part of the "System Score" because GPU is an integral component of the PC.

Then OpenCL and Heavy Multitasking can be added as separate solo tests (much like the Stress Test Mode is right now).
This way you have a representative system score that factors all major components and additional tests that may be useful to you but you're not forced to run in order to get a system score. Any future test we may decide to implement can be added as a separate test, like that.

With this design in mind you keep the main "System Score" test to the point and just provide additional tests for people who want/need them (of course we'll be adding only things that make sense..we won't add a Pi digit calculation test just cause someone suggested it it would be beyond the scope/concept of the application--All these decisions fall to ASUS of course).

So no bloating anywhere We're determined to keep the main System Score test to approximately the same duration. Have in mind, tests were tweaked several times during development for duration

[twisted1]

Currently there's no OpenCL benchmark out there at all. And OpenCL (GPU Computing) is something very useful to people that do image editing, video processing/encoding and 3d rendering considering it boosts the speed of those applications by A LOT.

I may have missed something here but, how about CLBenchmark?

http://clbenchmark.com/

[Nodens]

Sorry I did not know CLBenchmark existed Or it didn't last time I checked. There is another one as well now that I did some further research but it doesn't really matter as we think it's important to have such a test.

[twisted1]

It's pretty nice, you can run GPU's CPU, onboard GPU if it has OpenCL support(I think GPU- OpenCL support came with Ivy, don't think Sandy has that)

And you can run multiple gpu's

[Chewitt]

I have to agree more GPU would be helpful as although i heavily OC my CPU and RAM i dont ever really touch the GPU and it would be great to get a good readout on how my GPU is comparing to others with similar kit.

[Nodens]

It's pretty nice, you can run GPU's CPU, onboard GPU if it has OpenCL support(I think GPU- OpenCL support came with Ivy, don't think Sandy has that)

Sandy Bridge supports it