Good Sites for CPU Reference?

Question

One of the more difficult areas to make decent recommendations with any degree of speed is in the CPU department, especially now that we are entering an era where not everything is so x86, clock-speed -centric. The old x86 architecture is not only increasingly diverse within its own ranks, but is also now seeing competition from other CPU architectures: especially ARM, but also FPGA, MIPS, POWER8, etc. in some cases.

What resources can we recommend people take a look at when answering questions or formulating their own questions? I tend to have a lot of experience in the x86 space, so I can make a recommendation or two there, but I am missing any real resources when it comes to ARM and other architectures.

Answer 1

These are some of the benchmarks that I use.

• 3DMark benchmark (physics with same GPU)
• Cinebench scores
• Anandtech generalized benchmarks
• Tom's Hardware generalized benchmarks
• Passmark benchmark

For comparison I generally look at manufacturer's websites

• ARK intel
• AMD Products

Hopes this helps.

Answer 2

For x86 (and x86-64/IA64) specification comparison, I have found that cpu-world.com has no real competition. While it unfortunately doesn't offer enough information about CPU-chipset compatibility or benchmarks, it does pretty much everything else in a fast, easily-used interface, and it keeps up to date.

Answer 3

For computer processors, PassMark's CPU Benchmarks is a great site to compare the performance of CPUs. It uses information from community ran benchmarks which allows it to have a huge variety of different CPUs tested.