Bringing Open-Source, Automated Benchmarks To Windows 10 / Windows Server 2016

At the moment there are around four dozen or so test profiles available on Windows compared to the hundreds on Linux. More test profiles continue to be ported over near daily and other existing test profiles continue to be improved. There are just a couple at the moment that may not be working right or causing tests not to run. Again, this is an early alpha/beta state with improvements coming daily.

Among the Windows tests are some common Windows benchmarks like Cinebench and IOzone while there are also plenty of more developer/enterprise oriented benchmarks that you likely aren't routinely seeing out of Windows review sites like for Python, PHP, Golang, and other languages. Plus several server-oriented tests like NGINX, Redis, and PostgreSQL.

As always, with automation from start to finish being a priority. On a few Windows tests though you may need to hit an "install" button for some Windows packages that can't be automated, etc.

There are also some Steam gaming benchmarks like Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Dota 2, and others on the way along with the more traditional benchmarks like Unigine and open-source games like Xonotic.

Overall, getting quite close to feature parity with the Phoronix Test Suite on Linux. More improved/new test profiles continue to be updated and the Phoronix Test Suite client itself should likely need less Git riding after the next week.

Phoromatic support is also being worked on for the Windows version too. Obviously you can already upload the test results if you wish, etc, to OpenBenchmarking.org with that being a key feature of the Phoronix Test Suite.

Feel free to try it out or if you are a more conservative user to wait for the Phoronix Test Suite 8.0 release. The Phoronix Test Suite code is hosted via GitHub. There is also some initial Windows documentation as well for those interested, aside from the main documentation. Enterprise support and other services will be available by contacting us.

Phoronix Test Suite 8.0 will be officially released next quarter, before 5 June, which happens to mark ten years since the release of Phoronix Test Suite 1.0 and also fourteen years since founding Phoronix.com.