Benchmark (.NET 9)

• An OS-agnostic C# console application that displays system specifications and lets you run various benchmarks.
• This program tests different aspects of your system, including CPU, memory, and I/O performance.
• It retrieves detailed CPU, RAM, and GPU specifications and offers the following benchmarks:
• A Hashing benchmark with MD5, SHA256 and SHA512.
• An intensive CPU benchmark that computes prime numbers
• An intensive CPU workload that involves Matrix multiplication.
• A large dataset encryption/decryption benchmark (May need admin privileges).
• Using BenchmarkDotNet , SharpDX, NvAPIWrapper and Hardware.info

Test suite

• 🔢 Integer Performance – Prime number computation.
• 🧮 Floating-Point Performance – Matrix multiplication.
• 🔐 Cryptographic Performance – AES encryption and hashing.
• 💾 Memory Performance – 16GB dataset encryption operation.
• ⚡ Multithreading & Parallelism – Parallelized workloads.

Maintenance

CI/CD & CodeQL

Getting Started

• Install .NET 9 SDK from here
• Install .Net 9.0.0 Runtime from here
• Open the solution in your favourite IDE and set "Benchmark" as the startup project.
• Run the project in Release mode and without debugging.
• For debugging see the Debugging section below.
• Check your if system specs is correct
• Y to continue
• Select which benchmarks to run
• For VSCode you will need to install the C# extention for vscode
• For VSCode you also need to create launch.JSON and task.JSON files if you want to run in different configurations.
• If not you can use the provided JSON files.
• When the benchmark is done press Enter to exit.
• To cancel an ongoing benchmark press Ctrl + C

Running the EXE

• Open the solution with preferred IDE
• Set the startup project to Benchmark
• Build with dotnet build -c Release
• Publish with dotnet publish -c Release
• Run Benchmark.exe in the C:\Users\<Path to project>\Benchmark\bin\Release\net9.0\publish\ folder.

Download the EXE

• Download the latest release from here

Note

This project is not signed or notarized (Can't afford apple developer lol)

• On macOS you might need to allow the app to run in System Preferences > Security & Privacy then scroll down and click Open Anyway.
• On Windows you might need to allow the app to run in Windows Security then click Run Anyway.

Required SDKs & Runtimes

• .NET 9.0.x from here
• .Net 9.0.0 Runtime from here

Debugging

• Set a breakpoint anywhere.
• Run the program in Debug mode with debugger attached.
• Smaller datasets and iterations are used when debugger is attached.
• Use option 6 to start debugging.
• Select the benchmark you want to debug.
• The program will pause at the breakpoint.

Use older versions of .NET

• Install the required SDKs and Runtimes.
• Change the target framework in the Benchmark.csproj file.
• Change net9.0 to net7.0 or net8.0.
• Run the application.

Note

Results should not be compared between different versions of .NET.

Application output

Windows 11	MacOS Sequoia

• Scroll down to see results.
• Results are also exported to a .txt file located in the bin\Release\net9.0\publish\ folder.
• If you are running the downloaded .exe file, the results will be in the same folder as the .exe file.
• There might be up to a 20 seconds delay on first use due to hardware detection by Hardware.Info.

Output results

Windows 11	MacOS Sequoia

• Each benchmark will display it's runtime in ms.
• After all benchmark(s) are done, there will be a global runtime in ms.

Specs for tested systems.

MacBookPro 16" 2021

Apple M1 Max 10/32, 10 Cores 10 Threads (8P/2E)
32GB LPDDR5 6400MHz
macOS 13.6

MacBookPro 14" 2023

Apple M2 Pro 10/16, 10 Cores 10 Threads (6P/4E)
16GB LPDDR5 6400MHz
macOS 13.6

MacBookPro 13" 2017

Intel Core i5-7660U CPU 2.20GHz (Kaby Lake), 2 Cores 4 Threads (2P/0E)
8GB DDR3 2133MHz
macOS 12

MacBookPro 15" 2018

Intel Core i7-8850H CPU 2.60GHz (Coffee Lake), 6 Cores 12 Threads (6P/0E)
16GB DDR4 2400MHz
Windows 10 bootcamp

MacBookPro 15" 2018

Intel Core i7-8850H CPU 2.60GHz (Coffee Lake), 6 Cores 12 Threads (6P/0E)
16GB DDR4 2400MHz
macOS 13

Desktop PC

Intel Core i7-8700K CPU 3.70GHz (Coffee Lake), 6 Cores 12 Threads (6P/0E)
16GB DDR4 3600MHz
Windows 11

Workstation

Ryzen Thread Ripper 1950X CPU 3.9GHz (Zen 1), 16 Cores 32 Threads (16P/0E)
32GB DDR4 3400MHz
Windows 10

Dell latitude 5531

Intel Core i7-12800H CPU 1.80GHz (Alder Lake), 14 Cores 20 Threads (6P/8E)

Benchmark results

Note

Results are now tracked under issue #77 #77

.NET 7 Ranking (Legacy benchmarks):

1. Dell latitude 5531 - i7-12800H @ 55W 46s
2. Desktop ThreadRipper - Ryzen Thread Ripper 1950X @ 3.9GHz 49s
3. MacBook Pro 14" 2023 - M2 Pro 10 Core CPU (6P + 4E) 92s
4. MacBook Pro 16" 2021 - M1 Max 10 Core CPU (8P + 2E) 98s
5. Desktop i7 - i7-8700K @ 4.7ghz 151s
6. MacBook Pro 15" 2018 - i7-8850H @ 45W 191s
7. MacBook Pro 13" 2017 - i5-7660U @ 15W 573s

.NET 8 Ranking (Legacy benchmarks):

1. Dell latitude 5531 - i7-12800H @ 55W 32s
2. MacBook Pro 14" 2023 - M2 Pro 10 Core CPU (6P + 4E) 35s
3. Desktop ThreadRipper - Ryzen Thread Ripper 1950X @ 3.9GHz 38s
4. MacBook Pro 16" 2021 - M1 Max 10 Core CPU (8P + 2E) 42s
5. Desktop i7 - i7-8700K @ 4.7ghz 105s
6. MacBook Pro 15" 2018 - i7-8850H @ 45W 133s
7. MacBook Pro 13" 2017 - i5-7660U @ 15W 401s

Minimum system requirements

• .NET 9.0.x
• Dual core CPU
• Windows 10 or MacOS 12
• 4GB RAM
• 1GB Storage