The recently released CrystalMark Retro 2.0.0 now supports all version of Windows since 95 and NT 3.51, and has the ability to submit results to the CrystalMarkDB database.

You can download the benchmark here:

https://crystalmark.info/en/software/crystalmarkretro/

(NT version is for NT 3.51/4.0/2000)

Here's the database: https://crystalmarkdb.com/retro

And my scores (and some feedback as well): https://crystalmarkdb.com/users/17

I think of this as an opportunity to help him test the software with some 9x results

Edited March 30, 20251 yr by pangoomis
Official release!

22 hours ago, pangoomis said:

The recently released CrystalMark Retro 2.0 Beta 4 that supports all version of Windows since 95 and NT 3.51 now has the ability to submit results to the CrystalMarkDB database.

You can download the benchmark here:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/crystalmarkretro/files/2.0.0Beta4/

(not entirely clear about the difference between NT and regular version, probably only for NT 3.51/4.0)

Here's the database: https://crystalmarkdb.com/retro

And my scores (and some feedback as well): https://crystalmarkdb.com/users/17

I think of this as an opportunity to help him test the software with some 9x results

NT version is for NT 3.51/4.0 and 2000.

XP or above use regular version.

I'm not seeing any reason to use this over version 2.2 for 98SE at least ( if we are focusing on the hdd benchmarking part ), on top of that, the file is 10-11 MB. Roadkil's disk speed 2.0 / hd tach 2.70 look better than this program. this retro crystaldiskmark also appears confusing, like i got something like 160000 when testing on windows 10 with modern hardware ( using nvme ssd ) for sequential read disk, but how can i translate this to MB/S? Maybe it only works properly on the older OS to read in MB/s? Also the random read / write part does not seem to be based off queue depth 1? Perhaps if they made the ui like version 2.2 with windows 95 support, take up much less space, and measure queue depth 1 random read and write, then maybe it can be of use. 

Edited March 31, 20251 yr by cov3rt

According to the official website, the file size in CrystalMark Retro for disk benchmark is 32MiB for 9x/NT and 1 GiB for other versions, and the scores are 10 x MB/s.

I agree there are much better disk benchmarks for 9x like the ATTO Disk Benchmark 2.41 but this is just meant to be a quick and easy benchmark to compare scores between different PCs and operating systems...and just a little bit of fun for old retro PCs.