wPrime

wPrime is a compact and portable application that offers users two modes for testing the capabilities of their computer's CPU.

Although the tool packs limited features and provides a simple interface to navigate through, it caters to users with some background in benchmark tools, as the results are pretty technical to comprehend.

Since installation is not a prerequisite, you can simply save the executable anywhere on the hard disk and run it directly. Otherwise, you can move wPrime to a USB flash drive or other removable device, in order to run it on any computer effortlessly.

It's important to keep in mind that portable apps do not tinker with the Windows Registry, thus they do not increase the risk of system errors. Leftover files are not kept on the hard drive after removing the program.

The interface is based on a simple and minimalistic window, where wPrime gets started by retrieving hardware information from your PC, thus revealing the CPU specs, core, revision, clock, cache, VCore, FSB, motherboard model and vendor, together with the memory type, size, clock and timings. Unfortunately, the tool does not give you the possibility of printing these details, exporting them to an external file, or copying them to the Clipboard for further scrutiny.

As we have previously mentioned, wPrime offers two benchmark modes. You can test the basic or stable performance by calculating the square roots of the first 32 million integers across all available processors, or the first 1024 million integers, respectively. The score is also based on the total benchmark time, and you can either save it to file or upload it online.

Wprime is surprisingly light on the system resources, has a good response time and carries out a benchmarking task rapidly and without errors. We have not come across any issues in our tests, as the app did not hang or crash. WPrime offers a straightforward solution to testing the CPU level of your workstation in a few simple steps.