Benchmarking is process of running a suite of programs and derive at a score which can be used to compare different hardware.
There are various types of benchmarking software, each for a specific hardware subset.
Some of the professionally used benchmarking software include
- 3DMark series - for benchmarking graphics cards
- PassMark series - for benchmarking overall performance
- Cinebench - for benchmarking CPU & graphics performance
- HDTach - for benchmarking hard drive performance
- AS SSD Benchmark - for benchmarking SSDs
