Hardlimit Benchmark

The app does not support Windows 10 S.

HLBM is a CPU benchmark intended to measure the performance of a CPU in multiple areas. You can choose the x86 instruction set extension such as SSE or AVX to test how good are them for some operations. Furthermore, you can test how fast is your processor by executing old instructions sets. Remember: not all sofware is compiled for AVX2.

Also, it is possible to set the number of threads to execute. By default, HLBM will execute the maximum number of threads for your CPU but maybe you want to try a lower amount of threads to check how HyperThreading or SMT is doing its job.

HBLM runs four tests:

·Test#1 and #2: will evaluate the performance in the execution of SIMD entire and floating point operations. These tests will improve dramatically its results by setting a higher mode. The result will show you how fast is your CPU for multimedia and games.

·Test#3: This is a generic program. We have chosen a zip de/compression routine. The result will be barely affected by the mode. This test will show you how fast is you CPU for generic operations like the operating system itself and non-multimedia software.

·Test#4: This test runs a memory performance benchmark. The result depends on memory speed, cache size, its management and availability.

The higher results means a faster CPU.