multicore loading

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Dan

18 Apr, 2011 09:18 PM

Does the benchmark put a load on all processors and all cores in a tested system? It looks like the benchmark itself is recording how many processors and cores are being loaded? I'm trying to figure out if a score represents what the total machine can do or does it represent what only a single core can do?

  1. Support Staff 1 Posted by John on 18 Apr, 2011 09:25 PM

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    Hi Dan,

    Thanks for your message. Geekbench runs both single-threaded and multi-threaded tests. Single-threaded tests measure how a single processor core performs while multi-threaded tests measure how all of the cores perform. The overall Geekbench score is an average of these single-threaded and multi-threaded tests (the idea being that not every application is multi-threaded, so single-core performance is still important!).

    Cheers,
    John

  2. John closed this discussion on 10 Jun, 2011 06:17 PM.

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