BenchMate 12 introduces two new benchmarks, CINEBENCH 2024 for CPU and y-cruncher Pi-BBP. It officially supports the upcoming Zen 5 platform and brings several improvements for HWBOT submission as well as bugfixes.
The biggest effort was made to integrate CINEBENCH 2024. This is a huge benchmark with a completely new way of rendering using MAXON's Redshift renderer. Days went into reverse engineering the workload to fully understand what is going on and how BenchMate can ensure the integrity of the benchmark and capture its result. Only the CPU category is currently supported as HWBOT has no interest for the GPU part yet. I also tried to slim down the benchmark as much as possible to keep the download size of BenchMate to a minimum.
The second benchmark is y-cruncher's new workload called Pi-BPP. It was introduced with y-cruncher 0.8.5 and calculates Pi, but only a few digits of it very far behind the comma. This is basically what GPUPI does, but with a level of optimization I will never be able to provide. Pi-BBP is a CPU-heavy, long running workload, that needs less RAM than the current y-cruncher Pi categories, that calculate all digits of Pi. Although it supports up to AVX512, it should not get as choked up by memory bandwidth. I am sure this will be an interesting workload to play with. I proposed to add the categories 1B (fits for legacy), 10B (multithreaded Super PI-ish) and 100B (long running) to be added to HWBOT.
The y-cruncher integration was also rewritten to be more robust and more secure. Each result is now checked against y-cruncher's own validation file to detect if the result is 100% valid. BenchMate now also supports y-cruncher version 0.8.3 and 0.8.4.
In addition I was able to add several improvements for online and offline submission to HWBOT. We are basically back to the first implementation from years ago, where you fill in the CPU or GPU for yourself if it is not found in the HWBOT database. You can also be sure now that the result file can be uploaded to HWBOT, because BenchMate now reduces the screenshot's size below 2 MB if necessary.
Here is the full changelog for BenchMate 12.1:
Benchmarks
- CINEBENCH 2024 for CPU
- y-cruncher
- Supports versions 0.8.3, 0.8.4 and 0.8.5
- BenchMate is bundled now with version 0.8.5 with Zen 5 optimization and new Pi-BBP workload
- New benchmark Pi-BBP with the categories 1B, 10B and 100B
- Improved result validation of all categories by parsing and evaluating the validation file
Features & Improvements
- Improved HWBOT screenshot upload by automatically reducing the resulting screenshot size to a lower resolution to keep them below 2 MB. This will add CPU load to the capture process, so you will see a warning before this is really done.
- Added screenshot quality and size limit to the options dialog to give users the knobs to optimize their screenshots and circumvent the automatic behaviour
- Improved result dialog location to adhere to various taskbar settings (autohide, different position)
- Missing motherboard information will not produce invalid results anymore (can happen with OEM motherboards)
- Improved HWBOT submission error handling (CPU/GPU not found in database will not be rejected anymore)
- Improved handling of failed installation validation on startup with automatic update of root certificates
- Added architecture detection for Intel Meteor Lake, Arrow Lake, Lunar Lake, Zen 4, Zen 5
- Added codenames to architecture detection for AMD Zen (shown in result dialog)
- Detect and support Zhaoxin and Centaur CPUs
- Update to HWiNFO 8.05: support for Granite Ridge (Zen 5), improved support for Threadripper 7000 series and 14900KS
- Updated tools: CPU-Z 2.1.0 (2.10), GPU-Z 2.59, HWiNFO 8.05
Bugfixes
- Fixed a bug that sets the wrong result time leading to incorrect sorting of entries in the result list
- Fixed a possible app crash when the result dialog is closed with ESC during screenshots are taken and encoded
- Fixed a bug in the ACPI PM Timer implementation that prevented to launch BenchMate
Download
It's publicly available on the website: https://benchmate.org
Thank you
A big thank you goes out to ASUS, ASRock and Intel, that provided the necessary hardware to be able to develop and test this release!
This competition was a tribute to the predecessor of the current last gen AMD AM5 platform, with each of the three stages specifically focused on the memory tweaking. This brainchild of user Previousslayer (LTU) challenged the participants over three stages to get the most out of their beloved AMD AM4 platform:
Stage one focussing on getting the memory speed as high and tight as possible to feed the onboard graphics unit to provide the best possible DirectX12 graphics score in UL Benchmarks TimeSpy test. Therefore thje Processor as onboard graphics clocks were capped.
Winner of this stage was OCer Alex 2305 (GER) with a score of 1716, far above the rest of the competition field.which all stayed below the 1700 mark. Even beating G.Skill champion Seby9123, Mickulty finished at 3rd spot.
For Stage 2 only usage of Hynix IC memory based was allowed., the benchmark picked was PYPrime, again with capped processor speeds. This time Swedish overclocker Naganannan.Mickulty finishing this time as second, Madness777 (RUS) completed the top 3.
To win Stage 3 the participants had to set the highest memory clock frequency on the AM4 platform. While many overclockers were stuck at around or below the 2000MT/s mark the top 3 breached 2300MT/s and the winner, Profile_Name_1 almost snatched a validation at 2400MT/s, which is very impressive on this architecture.. Stage 2 winner Naganannan finished in second and Mickulty consolidated the Top 3 once more and thus grabbing the overal victory in the Oldzen RAMvenge competition.
Congratz gents, nice sportsmanship and solid scores allround.
Below some pictures of the used setups:
G.SKILL Announces OC World Cup 2023 Competition with $40,000 USD Total Cash Prize Pool
(24 February 2023) – G.SKILL International Enterprise Co., Ltd., the world’s leading brand of performance overclock memory and PC components, is excited to announce the return of the 7th Annual OC World Cup 2023, after a 3-year hiatus. The G.SKILL OC World Cup extreme overclocking competition will begin with the Online Qualifier stage, held from March 1, 2023 until April 5, 2023 on hwbot.org. Then the top 9 overclockers of the online qualifier will become finalists, who are qualified to join the live competition at the G.SKILL booth during Computex 2023 week from May 30, 2023 to June 2, 2023 and compete for a portion of the $40,000 USD total cash prize pool, with the OC Champion title taking home $10,000 USD!
Most Anticipated Extreme Overclocking Event of the Year
With the participation of top extreme overclockers from around the world and carefully crafted rules designed to test the ability of each overclocker, the G.SKILL OC World Cup is considered to be one of the most challenging overclocking competition by professional overclockers. The G.SKILL OC World Cup consists of three rounds: Online Qualifier, Live Qualifier, and Grand Final. The top 9 overclockers of the Online Qualifier will be eligible to enter the Live Qualifier stage during the week of Computex 2023 at the G.SKILL booth, and the top 3 overclockers from the Live Qualifier stage will compete for the title of OC Champion in the Grand Final.
Online Qualifier: March 1, 2023 to April 5, 2023
Live Qualifier: May 30, 2023 to June 1, 2023
Grand Final: June 2, 2023
Online Qualifier Stage
The Online Qualifier stage will be hosted on hwbot.org between March 1, 2023 and April 5, 2023. This stage is open to all overclockers worldwide, and participants must use G.SKILL memory kits and designated Intel platforms to submit results across 4 overclock categories that tests each overclocker's skills: Highest Memory Frequency, Cinebench R15, Y-Cruncher – Pi-2.5b, and SuperPi 32M. For more event details and rules, as well as to participate in the Online Qualifier stage of the OC World Cup 2023.
Please visit the competition webpage at: https://esports.hwbot.org/#!/round/gskill_ocworldcup_2023_online_qualifier
Please visit the competition forum webpage at: https://community.hwbot.org/topic/223382-gskill-world-cup-online-qualifier
$40,000 USD Total Cash Prize Pool
For over a decade, G.SKILL has been involved with the overclocking community. To give back to the extreme overclocking community, G.SKILL is raising the total cash prize pool to $40,000 USD for OC World Cup 2023, a substantial increase from $25,000 in 2019 and one of the largest total cash prize pool among OC competition events. And following the tradition of the OC World Cup competition, the OC Champion of the Grand Final will take home the whopping grand prize of $10,000 USD – the largest single cash prize sum in the overclocking community.
7th Annual OC World Cup 2023 Prize Breakdown
OC Champion: $10,000 USD
2nd Place: $6,500 USD
3rd Place: $5,000 USD
4th Place: $4,200 USD
5th Place: $3,400 USD
6th Place: $3,000 USD
7th Place: $2,800 USD
8th Place: $2,600 USD
9th Place: $2,500 USD
Additionally, each of the top 9 overclockers in the Online Qualifier will receive a DDR5-7800 32GB (16GBx2) memory kit.
Furthermore, 3 lucky participants who complete all stages of the Online Qualifier will be randomly selected to win a DDR5-7200 32GB (16GBx2) memory kit.
For more information, please refer to the following link: https://www.gskill.com/community/1502239313/1677231383/G.SKILL-Announces-OC-World-Cup-2023-Competition-with-$40,000-USD-Total-Cash-Prize-Pool
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About G.SKILL
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