You can now use a large Gooseberry scene to benchmark your hardware.
Ton writes:
It’s about time to share a benchmark for production quality renders – something nice and heavy, taking 8-12 GB memory and requiring an hour to render in a minimal quality! Here it is (240 MB).
This is the 1.0 release of the file, we like to get feedback first and make some updates still. We also work on automatic registration of render stats via an add-on.