How To Benchmark a processor model?

Question

I know benchmarks are programs written to test processor performance in detail (Memory Operations, MIPS, FLOPS, etc).

Are any of these programs available for download and use (as source code)? If yes how to use them? Are they just compile and run? Or do they need some profiling or other work to be done?

Answer 1

after a little bit of search, there are many open source benchmarks available for download as source code.

Wikipedia List

Roy Longbottom's PC Benchmark Collection

netlib Collection

Answer 2

If we're compiling a list, here are some other links commonly used, mostly graph algorithms:

• Graph500
• LoneStar
• Another, more simplified one, with quite a lot of basic algorithms - Problem Based Benchmark Suite

For server oriented workloads, you can also use MemcacheD