how many bogomips you got? Let's get loopy and find out

27 May 2022, 02:10:18

Before we begin, we should determine what a bogomip is. This was decided by Linus Torvalds and refers to the program designed by him to measure the relative speed of a processor by how many loops it can perform in a second as discussed in this article:

https://www.techtarget.com/searchdatacenter/definition/bogomips

bogus mips or million instructions per second. Bogus because a cpu's actual performance is dependent on a number of factors that aren't all accounted for.

i have an i7 7700 and inxi reports my bogomips at 57600. But then this web search find shows an i7-9700 with also 57600:

https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=369560

So clearly 2 iterations later with the same processor shows that relative performance hasn't changed at all.

What all this means at the end of the day seems to be something that matters very little to anyone other than a linux dev. It is often referred to as how many millions of times per second a cpu can do absolutely nothing according to this article:

https://tldp.org/HOWTO/BogoMips/bogo-faq.html

But then that article seems to be written back when people used cyrix procesors.. Though they correctly state that there are only two reasons to pay attention to bogomips: 1. to know if your cpu is performing according to spec and 2. to see if my computer is faster than yours.

HAHA!

Re: how many bogomips you got? Let's get loopy and find out

Reply #1 – 27 May 2022, 06:37:05

I always thought computing power is generally measured in FLOPS.

Re: how many bogomips you got? Let's get loopy and find out

Reply #2 – 08 July 2022, 01:30:30

how many flops you have before it runs?