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Lots of gaming benchmarks out there, but sadly as of yet there is really no dedicated hardware reviews for the software engineering space. Others have mentione
by lliamander 7y ago
Lots of gaming benchmarks out there, but sadly as of yet there is really no dedicated hardware reviews for the software engineering space.
Others have mentioned Phoronix (linux benchmarking) but I would also recommend Level1Techs. They are the only reviewers I've found that actually (occasionally) dig into what kind of performance actually matters to developers.
Recently, they did a video on using the Threadripper 3990X for Unreal Engine game development[0]. Some useful insights came out of that, such as:
- Compilers favor large cache sizes (which favors AMD)
- Usually the biggest performance bottleneck isn't compiling the code, but running automated tests (especially when it involves running a bunch of VMs).
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQa6r6Ci1jg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQa6r6Ci1jg
- DeathArrow 7y agoHere's a compilation benchmark: https://www.anandtech.com/bench/CPU-2019/2224 https://www.anandtech.com/bench/CPU-2019/2224 I guess there are more gaming benchmarks because there are much more gamers than software engineers.
- lliamander 7y agoCompilation benchmarks are fine, and many review sources are adding them, but there's still a pretty big gulf between "compiling the Linux kernel/chromium" and a typical developer workload. > I guess there are more gaming benchmarks because there are much more gamers than software engineers. That may be true, but I don't think that's a sufficient explanation. There are plenty of benchmarks for other professional workloads, such as CAD, 3D rendering, video editing, and mathematical modeling for financial or scientific applications.