4/2/2023 0 Comments Cinebench r15.038![]() SYSMark 2014 SE uses real applications to measure performance and responsiveness. Ugly, plain ugly, is the only way to describe the 5th-gen Core i5’s performance with the Spectre and Meltdown fix. Our tests put the 5th-gen Broadwell at 23 percent in the hole. Intel’s own tests on 8th-gen and 7th-gen laptops put the performance drop at 14 percent, while 6th-gen Skylake takes a hard 21-percent fall. Save a variety of documents to the file system. Install and uninstall applications in the background. Copy a large number of files in the background. Decompress the encrypted and unencrypted archive files. Export a large set of photos from a catalog. In this case BAPCo says: “Launch a variety of creativity and productivity applications. Besides testing general performance, SYSMark 2014 SE includes a module that measures system responsiveness-how long it takes for the PC to respond when doing certain tasks. What’s crazy is that’s not even the really bad news. Use a spreadsheet program to do data analysis.” The hit is almost 12 percent. ![]() Create and execute a rule on email inbox. Combine multiple scanned pages from a complex document into an encrypted PDF document using optical character recognition (OCR). View a complex presentation that include multimedia and export it to PDF. Convert a PDF document into an editable word processing document. Archive a diverse set of files into a single encrypted file. Browse multiple websites which include a blog, online shopping site, wiki site and social networking site. It gets even worse in Office Productivity, which is described as: “Read and manipulate notes from a notebook. SYSMark 2014 SE’s Media Creation test shows a fairly small hit as well. Add visual features to an existing architectural model, and render ‘sketch’ style views using an architectural modeling Transcode the video to a format suitable for web publishing using a video editing application. BAPCo describes this portion of the test as follows: “Create a panoramic image using an image editing application, combine a set of photos into one high dynamic range (HDR) image, and adjust and prepare both images for print. In SYSMark 2014 SE Media Creation, we saw a performance drop in excess of 10 percent. Where performance starts to dive is in media creation. SYSMark 2014 SE’s data analysis shows a minor three-percent performance degradation. It shows about a 3-percent impact from enabling the Spectre and Meltdown fix. The data and financial analysis score, for example, reflects performance for generating a sales forecast, creating charts, and other Excel-related tasks. If you dive into the results, you can see the variations from test to test. That overall score though, rolls up several sections of the test into one score. ![]() SYSMark 2014 SE is perhaps the most comprehensive benchmark for the PC today. This is a serious shortfall, but probably not a deal-breaker. The overall score shows a 12-percent drop in performance. The overall test score on the 5th-gen Core i5 shows just where the Meltdown and Spectre fix hurts. Although it is tinged by accusations of politics, there really is no other test like it for accurately measuring real-world usage. It’s built on a dozen or so real applications such as Photoshop, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word. It measures a computer’s overall performance in multi-tasking as well as how it responds to commands. That’s what a good CPU benchmark does.īAPCo’s SYSMark 2014 SE is a different kind of beast, though. Some of them may rely on memory performance, but they’re designed stay within the cores themselves for the most part. Most of the tests we’ve run are pure CPU tests. Flipping the protection off or on immediately flipped the results. Of course, the ultimate verification was seeing the results in the benchmarks. Just to make sure InSpectre was working, I also ran Alex Ionescu’s SpecuCheck, which reports more detail on the patch status but doesn’t let you manually switch it off. For our Broadwell test, we relied on Steve Gibson’s InSpectre utility, which confirms whether you’re completely patched against the exploits and also lets you disable the protection. The oldest thing we cold get our hands on that also received the patches was a Broadwell laptop.įor our first Meltdown/Spectre exploration with the Surface Book, we simply tested the storage subsystem before and after Microsoft pushed out the firmware, a strategy that gave us little control. Performance changes, however, are another thing. Although Intel has asked vendors to halt patches for Broadwell and Haswell due to spontaneous reboots, our XPS 13 didn’t exhibit any instability or crashes over several days of testing.
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