Today I am going to show you how to benchmark your computer, Single-Board or otherwise through three different websites. I have tested my Raspberry Pi 3 B on all of them and you can do it right along with me. I setup my Raspberry Pi 3 B on my DINrPlate and then launched the Chromium Browser for testing.
The first website you can go to is http://browserbench.org/JetStream/ and this website will test your setup 3 times and give you the final average score of the three tests. Screen Shots were captures with “scrot” from a terminal window.
The next website to test on is https://web.basemark.com/ and this one is a little tricky. This website tests the Raspberry Pi 3 B to its limits. Out of 3 tests only 2 of them completed and one locked my Pi completely up. This one is a good test for sure.
The final website is http://chromium.github.io/octane/ and was one of the most reliable out there in the web based areas. I have tested a lot of computers on this website and as I make changes when overclocking this one would show me some of those changes instantly.
Final Thoughts:
Web based tests are hard on the Raspberry Pi 3 B because it only has 1 Gb of Ram. Browsers are Ram killers and make sure to keep all of your tabs closed, not be logged into your Google Account and have a fresh browser opened for each test. Every little bit helps.
I am working on other tests now that I want to share with all of you one I have them down as best I can. I want you to be able to do the same things I am doing as you read them so you can compare your results to mine. Then as you learn how to setup your system better by tweaking and or overclocking it you can compare your own results against yourself and continue to improve your experience.
-=Remember – Work Hard, Have Fun & Enjoy=-