Lenovo M93 Ultra Small PC – Benchmarks – Week 2

Last Updated on April 19, 2021

There’s lots of processor benchmarks available, so we’ve limited the tests to 4. Let’s have a look at Smallpt first.

$ phoronix-test-suite benchmark smallpt

Smallpt is a C++ global illumination renderer written in less than 100 lines of code. Global illumination is done via unbiased Monte Carlo path tracing and there is multi-threading support via the OpenMP library.

The Lenovo M93 romps home first, again by a considerable margin. Its about 3 times faster than the Gigabyte BXBT-1900.

$ phoronix-test-suite benchmark compress-pbzip2

pbzip2 is a parallel implementation of the bzip2 block-sorting file compressor that uses pthreads and achieves near-linear speedup on SMP machines.

This test measures the time needed to compress a file (a .tar package of the Linux kernel source code) using BZIP2 compression. This time Lenovo’s margin of victory is less but still impressive given that the refurbished machine is at the same price as the AWOW AK41 and NYI3 mini PCs.

$ phoronix-test-suite benchmark crafty

Crafty is a chess program directly derived from Cray Blitz, winner of the 1983 and 1986 World Computer Chess Championships.

This is a benchmark looking at the CPU’s performance through a chess benchmark. This benchmark only uses a single core. Again the Lenovo M93 streaks ahead on this test.

$ phoronix-test-suite benchmark x265

This is a simple test of the x265 encoder run on the CPU with a sample 1080p video file. All five hardware struggle on this benchmark with none of them offering encoding at respectable frames per second. And the Lenovo M93 doesn’t fare well in this test, coming a lamentable 4th.

Next page: Page 3 – Memory

Pages in this article:
Page 1 – Introduction / System
Page 2 – Processor
Page 3 – Memory
Page 4 – Graphics
Page 5 – Disk

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This blog is written on the Lenovo M93 Ultra Small Desktop PC.