Benchmarking a Laptop
Many people consider laptops to be in the same group as games consoles and they are not far off the mark in my mind, but not everyone thinks like this
So can you benchmark a laptop and earn some points while doing it? Of course you can
A laptop is still a computer, complete with a CPU and graphics card and all the benchmarks you run on your PC will also run on a laptop
As we are dealing with non enthusiast hardware (which doesn’t mean you can’t overclock it) we have to consider how many submission have been made with the same hardware which, generally speaking, won’t be a lot with it being a laptop
These benchmarks still generate points for the best scores but don’t expect to earn any global points (UGP) or global team power points (GTPP)
What you will possibly earn is hardware points (UHP) or hardware team power points (HTPP) although, probably not a lot of them
Consider this; there are a total of 11 points scoring tests for the CPU system, 3 tests for system and memory and 9 tests for the GPU
If only 2 or 3 people have the same hardware and you managed to earn 2 hardware points for each test, then that would amount to 22 points for the CPU and 18 points for the GPU with the possibility of maybe 2 points for the reference clock test, I don’t consider the possibility of scoring points in the DDR3 memory tests as being feasible on this type of platform, someone may prove me wrong
Just recently Chudley asked if he could use his laptop in any way to help the team with what he’s got
The first thing to do is to check whether anyone else has had the same idea
Following the link Chudley provided shows a Samsung notebook series 7 gamer laptop with an Intel HM65 chipset, DDR3 memory, an i7 2670QM CPU and a Radeon HD 6970M graphics chip
A quick trip to hwbot with these specs and we have the information we need to get started
The CPU in question has been used in more than manufacturer’s products so that has a few more results than the GPU so we’ll start with that
All of the system benchmarks can be used here and the competition is as follows
Pifast
A single threaded benchmark this takes no benefits from having a multi core CPU
This has 15 submissions with the top score being 24.02 seconds earning 2 UHP and 7.1 HTPP
The lowest points score is 9th place at 24.32 seconds earning 0.2 UHP and 2.0 HTPP
The lowest of the 15 submissions is 26.58 seconds which earned 0.1 UHP and 1.8 HTPP
With so few submissions this is the best you could possibly earn, but it all counts to your total personal points as well as the team’s points
My top Pifast score is with the i7 2600k at 13.52 seconds which only earned me 0.1 UHP and zero HTPP, I earned more points with my E8400 score of 18.36 seconds with 6.1 UHP and 12.5 HTPP and just as much with my Q9550 score of 20.61 seconds with 7.3 UHP and 5.9 HTPP, no global points at all
Unlike a desktop counterpart CPU and motherboard combo, you can’t just disable 3 cores and OC the single core to greater heights for more points, although I may be wrong here
SuperPi 1M
Like Pifast this is a single threaded app and the points allocation is much the same throughout the submissions of which there is 18, 3 more than Pifast
The top score is 12s 121ms and scores 2.0 UHP and 7.6 HTPP, slightly higher HTPP due to there being a few more submissions
The lowest scoring result is 12s 308ms with 0.2 UHP and 2.1 HTPP
The lowest result is 13s 47ms with 0.1 UHP and 1.8 HTPP
This is pretty much the same pattern throughout all the benchmarks so I’m not going to drag this out much longer, here is the list of CPU benchmarks remaining
SuperPi 32m
PCMark 2004
PCMark 2005
CPU Frquency
wPrime 32
wPrime 1024
PCMark Vantage
UCBench 2011
Run all these benches and compare your results with those on hwbot
If anybody feels they have tips and tricks or advice they can pass on then feel free and share them
Many people consider laptops to be in the same group as games consoles and they are not far off the mark in my mind, but not everyone thinks like this
So can you benchmark a laptop and earn some points while doing it? Of course you can
A laptop is still a computer, complete with a CPU and graphics card and all the benchmarks you run on your PC will also run on a laptop
As we are dealing with non enthusiast hardware (which doesn’t mean you can’t overclock it) we have to consider how many submission have been made with the same hardware which, generally speaking, won’t be a lot with it being a laptop
These benchmarks still generate points for the best scores but don’t expect to earn any global points (UGP) or global team power points (GTPP)
What you will possibly earn is hardware points (UHP) or hardware team power points (HTPP) although, probably not a lot of them
Consider this; there are a total of 11 points scoring tests for the CPU system, 3 tests for system and memory and 9 tests for the GPU
If only 2 or 3 people have the same hardware and you managed to earn 2 hardware points for each test, then that would amount to 22 points for the CPU and 18 points for the GPU with the possibility of maybe 2 points for the reference clock test, I don’t consider the possibility of scoring points in the DDR3 memory tests as being feasible on this type of platform, someone may prove me wrong
Just recently Chudley asked if he could use his laptop in any way to help the team with what he’s got
The first thing to do is to check whether anyone else has had the same idea
Following the link Chudley provided shows a Samsung notebook series 7 gamer laptop with an Intel HM65 chipset, DDR3 memory, an i7 2670QM CPU and a Radeon HD 6970M graphics chip
A quick trip to hwbot with these specs and we have the information we need to get started
The CPU in question has been used in more than manufacturer’s products so that has a few more results than the GPU so we’ll start with that
All of the system benchmarks can be used here and the competition is as follows
Pifast
A single threaded benchmark this takes no benefits from having a multi core CPU
This has 15 submissions with the top score being 24.02 seconds earning 2 UHP and 7.1 HTPP
The lowest points score is 9th place at 24.32 seconds earning 0.2 UHP and 2.0 HTPP
The lowest of the 15 submissions is 26.58 seconds which earned 0.1 UHP and 1.8 HTPP
With so few submissions this is the best you could possibly earn, but it all counts to your total personal points as well as the team’s points
My top Pifast score is with the i7 2600k at 13.52 seconds which only earned me 0.1 UHP and zero HTPP, I earned more points with my E8400 score of 18.36 seconds with 6.1 UHP and 12.5 HTPP and just as much with my Q9550 score of 20.61 seconds with 7.3 UHP and 5.9 HTPP, no global points at all
Unlike a desktop counterpart CPU and motherboard combo, you can’t just disable 3 cores and OC the single core to greater heights for more points, although I may be wrong here
SuperPi 1M
Like Pifast this is a single threaded app and the points allocation is much the same throughout the submissions of which there is 18, 3 more than Pifast
The top score is 12s 121ms and scores 2.0 UHP and 7.6 HTPP, slightly higher HTPP due to there being a few more submissions
The lowest scoring result is 12s 308ms with 0.2 UHP and 2.1 HTPP
The lowest result is 13s 47ms with 0.1 UHP and 1.8 HTPP
This is pretty much the same pattern throughout all the benchmarks so I’m not going to drag this out much longer, here is the list of CPU benchmarks remaining
SuperPi 32m
PCMark 2004
PCMark 2005
CPU Frquency
wPrime 32
wPrime 1024
PCMark Vantage
UCBench 2011
Run all these benches and compare your results with those on hwbot
If anybody feels they have tips and tricks or advice they can pass on then feel free and share them
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