What are benchmarks measured in?

[Nastybutler187]

I am doing a science fair project, and it involves processors and testing their performance. i need to have a unit for everything i do, therefore i need to have a unit for a 'benchmark'. i am running Performance Tester 5.0 to test my computers speed. thanks

 

[dragon2309]

erm... there really is no unit for the points on a benchmark, you'll have to invent something, how about "points", abbreviated to "pts". Or perhaps merging benchmark points into sometrhing like "bmp".

There is no "official" unit for it so be inventive.

 

[Nastybutler187]

i looked on wikipedia, and what about things like FLOPS, MIPS, and HINT?

 

[Nastybutler187]

anybody know anything about this?

 

[flame1117]

Just use U for UNITS, you use "units" comenly for something that is well Unitless haha,

 

[run4it]

i thought a proc. could be measured in flops (floating point operations.) the pc u test these processors in could be a control and the processor would be the variable. run the same benchmarking program on each processor. if anyone sees any problems with this solution please post.

 

[Nastybutler187]

uhh .. the only problem is i cant use more than $25 and i only have one socket 939 processor.

 

[flame1117]

uhh .. the only problem is i cant use more than $25 and i only have one socket 939 processor.

Then i highly suggest you pick a different project, or do this test with very old CPU's around socket A or under, you can buy a bundle uf um(like a lot) off of ebay with that money then do tests with more then the 1 CPU you have.