Benchmarking Some Tweaks

I’ve been redoing some research regarding a few “tweaks”.

I thought some of you may find it interesting.



My first step was to add some 3DMark and PCMark8 benchmarks to Bad Tweak – Core Parking.

The second step was to benchmark the following tweaks via Passmark:

bcdedit /set useplatformclock true

bcdedit /set tscsyncpolicy Enhanced

bcdedit /set disabledynamictick yes

Hardware: My Laptop (Intel i7)

OS: Windows 8.1

Setup: Laptop plugged in to external monitor. Forced Passmark to use Nvidia card instead of Intel.

Test Name	Before Tweaks	Hpet Tweak	Tscsyncpolicy Tweak	All Timing Tweaks
PassMark Rating	3720.8	3590.0	3728.2	3619.7
CPU – Integer Math	16351.1	15091.4	16362.3	15688.0
CPU – Floating Point Math	7343.6	6319.2	7334.4	6157.1
CPU – Prime Numbers	25.2	27.2	26.1	26.9
CPU – Extended Instructions (SSE)	44.7	44.6	44.7	44.7
CPU – Compression	12787.1	12765.5	12786.4	12792.6
CPU – Encryption	1752.4	1753.8	1748.8	1722.1
CPU – Physics	514.6	510.2	511.9	504.8
CPU – Sorting	7286.8	7274.0	7273.7	7221.1
CPU – Single Threaded	2000.9	1631.9	2003.2	1630.0
Graphics 2D – Simple Vectors	31.0	30.0	29.8	29.1
Graphics 2D – Complex Vectors	141.5	137.8	136.6	141.7
Graphics 2D – Fonts and Text	236.0	233.9	236.2	233.9
Graphics 2D – Windows Interface	125.7	123.2	125.5	123.5
Graphics 2D – Image Filters	774.7	774.6	773.5	772.3
Graphics 2D – Image Rendering	794.0	791.1	794.9	790.7
Graphics 2D – Direct 2D	21.2	21.0	21.1	21.1
Graphics 3D – DirectX 9 Simple	80.8	80.2	80.4	80.2
Graphics 3D – DirectX 9 Complex	41.3	41.1	41.3	41.3
Graphics 3D – DirectX 10	16.4	16.3	16.3	16.4
Graphics 3D – DirectX 11	29.3	29.5	29.3	29.3
Graphics 3D – DirectCompute	582.0	581.8	582.0	581.9
Memory – Database Operations	85.8	79.8	85.2	81.6
Memory – Read Cached	26049.2	26096.0	26123.5	26106.2
Memory – Read Uncached	13727.7	13754.5	13759.0	13812.9
Memory – Write	9336.9	9352.4	9340.0	9390.8
Memory – Available RAM	14564.0	14573.2	14575.5	14578.0
Memory – Latency	27.3	27.3	27.3	27.2
Memory – Threaded	21637.3	21618.3	21631.2	21662.5
Disk – Sequential Read	416.0	477.4	473.8	330.4
Disk – Sequential Write	441.4	216.2	443.1	429.7
Disk – Random Seek + RW	281.5	280.3	284.3	281.7
CPU Mark	9042.3	8595.7	9069.4	8561.3
2D Graphics Mark	766.0	753.8	756.1	753.7
Memory Mark	2469.5	2442.1	2469.8	2456.4
Disk Mark	4118.7	3522.4	4344.0	3767.7
3D Graphics Mark	1423.5	1420.3	1421.6	1421.4
PassMark Rating	3720.8	3590.0	3728.2	3619.7

Still researching…