I have been reading this forums a lot lately. And I have been a little upset on the reports that new PPC’s are having worse game performance than the old ones.
To get a better picture of the situation I have looked around for some PPC-test in magazines and the net but not found any. What I am really looking for is some kind of compilation of benchmark score for different PPC’s.
So one of my questions is: Have anyone done a program that would work as a benchmark tool? It would at least follow these guiding principles:
1. Free
2. Easy to install, easy to remove
3. Small memory footprint
4. Test some gaming aspects
5. No randomness in the tests
6. Report the scores in a easy readable manner
7. Work for different CPU’s and OS versions
It doesn’t need be a universal game test benchmark utility; here is a proposal to a simple benchmark test:
1. Integer code (maybe something like A*), lower time is better
2. Pure graphics page flipping test, higher framerate is better
3. Sprite test, higher sprite count is better
4. Floating point calculations, lower time is better
I could do such a program (if there are no other program) and also set up some mailing account to where people could mail their results, compile the benchmark results. What I need is some web space, to publish the results and some file space to host the benchmark tool.
Any suggestions?
Regards, Okku Touronen
