Human Brain EnthusiastIs there single/multicore benchmark for CPUs that makes current-generation CPUs comparable with stuff from say the mid-90s onwards?
I'd like to specifically compare how fast a G4 (e.g. PowerPC 7455) is versus current Apple M5.
Fabian Transchel@thomasfuchs I found 7zip* to be a reasonably time-stable benchmark as it runs on almost any architecture and almost any CPU.
Of course, it doesn't really check anything besides (un)zipping things...
* e.g. 7z b -mmt1
@thomasfuchs Incidentally, I use it to "prove" that running #gentoo -march=native optimizations is worth about 15% performance-wise on workloads I never do 😂
Markus Osterhoff