The latest version of the Phoronix Test Suite, an open source benchmarking tool, was released today and I figured that I would download it and give it a try.
The Phoronix Test Suite is packed with 57 tests that have been grouped into 26 suites which range from audio-encoding to gaming performance. The suite is quite easy to use although you should make sure you have a few gigabytes of hard drive space free because it will need to download over 2GB if you want to run all of the tests.
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