Quote Originally Posted by poke349 View Post
uh...

PrimeCores finds prime numbers. It has nothing to do with Pi.

y-cruncher is fully compatible with older processors. It just won't be as fast.

In my opinion, the true benchmark is one that adapts to the processor that it's running on by utilizing all special features it has. (Otherwise, why have those special features in the first place?)

Also, y-cruncher wasn't originally written for benchmarking.
It was done for a completely different purpose and later converted into a benchmark.
if the code performs different operations for different CPU ,
you dont have a true benchmark, you have a simple test.

PI use floating point unit , Prime use integer unit,

I do not want put this into question,
do not speed race,
however, are convinced that a benchmark should run with the same (identical) code on many CPUs to be true benchmark.