The PixInsight Benchmark


Benchmark Report

Benchmark Identification
Serial number ZMIJKM4K9CFAVNLDETKD23IBN03JHW71
Benchmark version 1.00.08
Report date 2024/02/06 21:38:58 UTC
CPU Identification
CPU vendor AuthenticAMD
CPU model AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core Processor
System Information
Platform Windows
Operating system Microsoft Windows 10 Pro
Core version PixInsight Core 1.8.9-1 (x64)
Logical processors 32
Total memory size 127.909 GiB
Execution Times
Total time 13.96 s
CPU time 11.61 s
Swap time 2.33 s
Swap transfer rate 7107.170 MiB/s
Performance Indexes
Total performance 33692
CPU performance 32601
Swap performance 39363
Additional Information
Swap disks 96GB Ramdisk on 128GB/3200MHz DDR4
Motherboard Asus Tuf Gaming B550-Plus Wifi ii
Machine description Custom build for PixInsight. Ryzen 9 5950X, 2TB 2GB/s NVMe PCIe g3 drive ADATA SX8200PNP, 128GB/3200MHz DDR4
Comments The PixInsight benchmark is not affected by the Ryzen low power "eco" mode with TDP 65W. It is weird but the results are better than in full power mode (33000pts vs 30000pts). The procesor at full speed has TDP 105W. I tried other benchmarks (Cinebench, UserBenchmark). Speed went down there maybe few percents (3%?) and it is still pretty comparable to other users results . It seems no real benefit comes from full power mode or even overclocking. Few percent maybe. I love more my silence :) Consider a good cheap B550 chipset mobos before 2x more expensive X570 if you do not need multiple NVMe drives and GPUs. I have not built a machine with the current generation Ryzen 7950X as its TDP (and price too) is too high for my taste. Speed of the PCie 5gen would be practically unutilized by both of current GPU and NVMe drives. NVMe PCIe 5g drives are fast only before depleting cache. The RamDisk is 2x faster than NVMe drive (at worst case). The fast NVMe drive is fine even to read/store big ramdisk (startup/shutdown lasts about 60s). 2GB/s of the relatively cheap drive is not bad but it is bottleneck for PixInsight. The good old PC using 4core/8thread I7 4790K and SATA SSD is about 10x slower than the new machine.