Processor Benchmarks
The first processor test doesn’t use Phoronix.
Here we’re testing the time it takes to build fooyin, a graphical music player which is coming along in leaps and bounds.
It’s a good test of processor speed as fooyin’s build process saturates a machine’s cores for almost the entire test.
The DreamQuest puts in another good performance, building the latest release of fooyin in just over 10 minutes, and only taking slightly londer than the HP tiny desktop PC. The Xeon with its 12 core 24 thread CPU romps home, but it’s not twice as quick as the DreamQuest. The less said about the i3-5005U the better.
There are many other processor benchmarks available, so we’ve picked a few noteworthy tests. We begin with Smallpt.
$ phoronix-test-suite benchmark smallpt
Smallpt is a C++ global illumination renderer written in less than 100 lines of code. Global illumination is done via unbiased Monte Carlo path tracing and there is multi-threading support via the OpenMP library.
Again the DreamQuest runs the HP very close in this test. Another credible result.
$ phoronix-test-suite benchmark compress-pbzip2
pbzip2 is a parallel implementation of the bzip2 block-sorting file compressor that uses pthreads and achieves near-linear speedup on SMP machines.
This test measures the time needed to compress a file (a .tar package of the Linux kernel source code) using BZIP2 compression.
$ phoronix-test-suite benchmark crafty
Crafty is a chess program directly derived from Cray Blitz, winner of the 1983 and 1986 World Computer Chess Championships.
This is a benchmark looking at the CPU’s performance through a chess benchmark. This benchmark only uses a single core.
It’s a stellar performance from the DreamQuest in this test. Over 7.6 million nodes per second is an awesome result. Even a well spec desktop machine with an i5-10400 processor scores 7.9 million nodes per second.
$ phoronix-test-suite benchmark x265
This is a simple test of the x265 encoder run on the CPU with a sample 1080p video file.
The DreamQuest doesn’t outclass the HP machine in this test but it’s not a bad result.
$ phoronix-test-suite benchmark x265
We repeated the test but this time with a sample 4K video file. No great shakes for any of the machines.
Next page: Page 3 – Memory / Graphics
Pages in this article:
Page 1 – Introduction / System
Page 2 – Processor
Page 3 – Memory / Graphics
Page 4 – Disk / WiFi
Page 5 – Specifications
Complete list of articles in this series:
| DreamQuest N95 Mini PC | |
|---|---|
| Part 1 | Introduction to the series with an interrogation of the system |
| Part 2 | Benchmarking the DreamQuest N95 Mini PC |
| Part 3 | Power Consumption and Running Costs |