Football Manager 12 Benchmark Thread

[yugo23]

You are correct about detail level of the competitions your team is entered. Still, it's only one league out of 10/20/30/xy you select. Speed difference between running default/full detail is more than double from my experience. You get all cores to work, still processing speed is halved. You do get most accurate results, but aren't the default ones quite OK?

I wish we had more i7 920 results, as the other one is half minute slower.

What mostly interests me is difference between 2600K and 2500K at the same clocks, and it's quite a lot, around or even more than half a minute (because of H/T?).

[Barside]

There is always the forgotten factor of how well maintained people keep their OS & background programmes & as you say a larger sample of results for each processor would be preferable as the two results so far for the 920 might just represent the max upper & lower ends of the performance scale.

[yugo23]

I still hope we will get to see what 5GHz+ 2600K is capable of.

[skemar007]

QuadCore Intel Core i5-3570K, oc @ 4200 MHz

RAM: 8GB(DDR3-1600 DDR3 SDRAM)
OS: Win 7 64bit
Time:3.07.97

This was the start of the game so i done another test when the season starts cos matches will be processing

Time: 4.49.72

[GIBURROWS]

The file has disappeared....? I wanted to see if my i3 could stumble over any of your times.

[yugo23]

Reuploaded

Depositfiles link from the first post also works.

skemar007, can you please confirm that you have used this savegame for testing.

[nababaliw]

From my laptop:

CPU: i5 2430M
CPU Frequency: 2400 MHz
RAM: 6GB 800 MHz
OS: Win 7 (64bit)
Time: 6 min 21 sec

[Svenc]

The file has disappeared....? I wanted to see if my i3 could stumble over any of your times.

There is an i3 in the list already, which has finished around the 5 minutes mark. As you can see, there isn't that much of a difference amongst newer processors, as the text interval isn't that taxing to begin with for new machines and it's the full detail match simulation that benefits from faster processor architectures AND multiple cores alike. So much so that a benchmark graph looks more akin to application software rather than your typical game, where fast dual cores such as the i3 can often downright outperform quad cores of the previous generation, such as Phenom II X4 and Core 2 Quad. Not the case here. Usually lower speced mobile chips are another matter altogether, though.

The argument against that and a question you have to ask yourself is of course: Who does really simulate a bigger number of leagues and competitions, each one, even, in their save in full detail? If you do, however, this benchmark will tell you only so much how FM will perform on your machine. In this save, even a handily spec'ed Core 2 Duo can do okayish. Not the case if you set it up differently. In this case, any older dual core processor (Core 2 Duo, Athlon X2, Athlon II X2) will finish way behind anything else. And an i3, which I own myself, will certainly be no equal to a much more expensive i5 clocked at the same speed, as is the case here*.

* As I personally simulate only a number of competitions loaded in full detail, this was quite useful to see though. It seems upgrading to an i5 will only take me so far. :-)

[stevie_G_32201]

This file does not exist, the access to the following file is limited or it has been removed due to infringement of copyright.

Getting this message when attempting to download the save.

[wanderer89]

The link in post 107 works.

[yugo23]

I was interested to see how this little fellow from my HTPC will do.

CPU: AMD Zacate E-350
CPU Frequency: 1600 MHz
RAM: 4GB 1066 MHz
OS: Win 7
Time: 22 min 45 sec

[mylo75]

CPU: Intel Core i7 720
CPU Frequency: 2800 MHz
RAM: 4GB 2000 MHz
OS: Win 7 64 bit
Time: 7 min 26 sec

Ah man I thought my laptop would have been much faster

Any suggestions to make my laptop run fm quicker.

[Scribe]

Sorry to bump this, but I thought it was an interesting thread and I wanted to check out my new PC

CPU: i5 3570k
CPU Frequency: 3.40GHz o/c @ 4.40GHz
RAM: 8GB 1600 MHz
OS: Win 7 64 bit
Time: 4 min 17 sec

[The Unknown Imposter]

Good bump, Scribe. I'm thinking of buying a desktop to coincide with the new game because I'm frustrated by the speed of my Vaio and the 2 stars my graphics card gets on FM12 (1GB ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4650).

CPU: Intel® Core™ 2 Duo P8700
CPU Frequency: 2.53GHz
RAM: 4GB DDR2 SDRAM/800MHz
OS: Win 8 64 bit
Time: 10 mins even

[Gee_Simpson]

Sorry for bumping this but is there a similar thread like this for FM 13?

[yugo23]

New link - http://depositfiles.com/files/ac5z7asgk . For some reason I can't update link in post 1.
If there is someone with new gen CPUs still playing FM12, I'd like to add those results.

[wez007]

CPU: i7 3630QM IvyBridge
CPU Frequency: 2.4GHZ, no O/C
RAM: 16GB 1600 MHz
OS: Win 7 64 bit
Time: 4 min 9 sec

edit, this is for a Clevo Custom built laptop so spec is mobile based. No need to O/C the the Cpu due to quad cores. Bit paranoid fiddlig with the oc so will leave as is

[dave byrd]

CPU: Intel Core i7 960 Bloomfield
CPU Frequency: 3200 MHz (no O/C)
RAM: 12GB 1600MHz
OS: Win 7 64 bit
Time: 5 min 30 secs