BANANA Benchmark Results Comparison

I find it interesting how the hyper-threading doesn't seem to make much of a difference with #cars/physical core.

 

From my experience anything that taxes a cpu hard doesn't really benefit from hyper threading. Its more being able to be many light tasks at once better. I multi task like crazy so I opted to go for an I7.

 

I take it this has been overclocked? Compared to Brocolli's one, yours has a much higher result.

 

I would also like to know. Although interestingly enough we both fall below 100% at 8 vehicles.

 

Hyperthreading works great on low priority tasks giving as much as a 70% performance boost over a non hyperthreaded system. However on high usage tasks it has been known to do the complete opposite and instead of boosting performance it adds extra race conditions and has been known to cause entire thread stalls hence reducing performance over a non hyperthreaded counterpart chip.

The negatives are exacerbated on single core chips, I had a laptop which was single core with hyperthreading and found that with windows vista installed (which handled hyperthreading poorly too, windows 7 & 8 are both HT aware and will try to avoid the conditions which can cause thread stall - likely happening here actually) I had poorer performance in all of my games with HT on, general web browsing was fine. Windows 7 fared slightly better than vista, but still I found hyperthreading was causing the system to heat up quicker and draining battery, not sure why exactly and at the time wasnt savvy enough to look into it but I still opted to turn it off.
On my dual core i3 laptop I have now, hyperthreading has proved its worth a little more and remains on.

 

funny i just saw that and your post on this side and i still can not imagine why that is. i built that pc yesterday, just changed the mobo, ram, cpu and HDD to:

Mobo: ASUS Maximus Hero VII
CPU: 4790k Boxed
RAM: G.Skill TridentX - F3-2400C10D-16GTX
HDD: 2 TB Seagate Hybrid Drive (SSHD: a normal HDD with and additional 8GB SSD drive that works as a kind of buffer or cache. much much faster booting (win7pro in way under a minute) and app starting and stuff.)

maybe it is the combination of hardware? the chipset on the mobo?

 

Well, I got the motherboard. Now I just need $90 so that I can have eight cores of unlocked awesome. I have my old netbook listed on eBay and I'm thinking of selling my Nexus 7 since I don't use it anymore.

 

i5 4670k, @3.4GHz

 

Mine is a brand new asrock z97 extreme 4 with the 4790k. So I'm not sure what is causing the difference, especially since we are both not over clocked. What do you score in cinebench?

 

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wait! cpu-z tells me that i was wrong. i don't know why but the cpu runs with 4400MHz. how can i not do this? does this affect the cpu's lifetime? (because of course i likey muchey )

 

The 4790k turbos to 4.4ghz. So your fine, it's designed to do that. Ill run Cinebench later and let you know. I just wanna run another benching program to see if it's just beam ng where your faster.

 

You sure bout that? The way I see it it's either FX 9590 set to permanent 5 GHz (if your watercooling setup is at least decent it should be possible) or it isn't any better than a 4 GHz four year old X6 Thuban for half the price.

 

I've finally got my hands on some quad core power now! It may not be a 4790K, but so what? It's still a Core i5, an open-box $140 Core i5 3350P from fleabay, that is.

 

Just to let you know that i5 is actually getting about 10% less Mbeams/s/core/ghz than your previous Pentium. Still much better overall performance though.

 

I run an Intel Core i7 3770S. Good processor. I've got HD 4000 as my main graphics which sucks though.

I think it's decent. Planning on building a computer of my own next (my current one is stock).

EDIT: I added a non-idling CPU-Z. This is what it did when I ran BananaBench.

 

What was it boosting to? Look at CPU-Z whilst the bench is running, that'll tell you. Showing it idling at 1600MHz is no use to anyone

 

I realised that after I posted it. I'll get a running one when I get back to my CPU.


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Just stock. Not sure if good or bad. Need to look at some others.

 

If you are wondering, I put a CPU-Z pic in my post that showed it boosting to 3.4GHz or so. Could still go higher though.


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I have an AMD A6-3420M CPU with Radeon HD graphics, stock is 1.50 Ghz, I clocked up to 2.4 and it made a huge difference in Beamng. My question is, what kind of processor can I upgrade too?? Cant really seem to find the answer online, just a lot of negative reviews about my processor (I think its pretty decent for an entry level laptop I got for 100 bucks lol). Is it easy to swap out? Also, could I increase my ram? Supposed to be able to upgrade to 8 gigs, I use 4 gigs currently...DDR3 I believe. Im kinda newb with hardware but I would love to just give a slight bump in performance instead of dropping 1800 on this laptop I have had my eye on.

I have my eye on the AMD A10-4600M. I know its kin of old, but would this swap in easily enough? I could snag one for like 40 bucks, and I think it would be nice to OC over 3.1ghz.