CPU Benchmark API

About

A python script to pull CPU benchmarks, as well as other data about the CPU, from cpubenchmark.net

Setup

Optional: If you want to run this in a virtual python environment to prevent having more python packages than you need installed on your system, you can set up a virtual python environment with the following commands:

python -m venv env

Then, for Windows users:

env/source/activate.bat

For macOS and Linux users:

source env/bin/activate

Required: Install the required python packages with the following command:

pip install -r requirements.txt

If you modified the script and added additional libraries, and used a virtual environment, you can easily update the requirements.txt file with the following command:

pip freeze > requirements.txt

Once you're done in the python enviornment, you can exit it with the following command:

deactivate

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Usage

Before you run the script, make sure you have a cpus.txt file. That file should look something like this:

Intel Xeon X5650 @ 2.67GHz&cpuCount=2
Apple M1 Pro 10 Core
Intel Core i7-6920HQ @ 2.90GHz
Intel Core i9-9900K @ 3.60GHz
Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 @ 2.50GHz

Note: the &cpuCount=2 if you are trying to pull data from
a dual or quad CPU set up, you must have this. Otherwise, you'll just get the single CPU results. You also don't need to specify the clockspeed, as denoted with the @ x.xxGHz; however, you could get unexpected results if there are multiple variaties of the same cpu. For example, non-K vs K variants, like the i7-3770 vs i7-3770k, or V2/V3/V4 variants in server CPUs like the E5-2670 vs E5-2670 v3. In my testing, for example, if I just entered i7-3770 I would get the i7-3770K back instead. I'd only get the i7-3770 if I added the clock speed

TL;DR: The more verbose you are about the cpu the more likely you'll be to get the one you want/expect

You can also add comments to CPUs like so

// This is a comment
Intel Core i7-6920HQ @ 2.90GHz # This is also a comment
// The CPU below this commented out and will not be used 
//Intel Core i9-9900K @ 3.60GHz
Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 @ 2.50GHz

To run the script use the following command:

./cpubenchmarkapi.py

or

python cpubenchmarkapi.py

Additionally, you can specify your own input and output files by tacking on -i and/or -o flags, respectfully, this will tell the script to use those rather than the default cpus.txt and cpuData.csv as seen here:

./cpubenchmarkapi.py -i serverCPUs.txt -o serverCPUsData.csv

Lastly, you can also tack on the -p command to add multiprocessing. By default, it will use all available CPU's

./cpubenchmarkapi.py -p

./cpubenchmarkapi.py -i CPU_Data/serverCPUs.txt -o CPU_Data/serverCPUsData.csv -p 6