PCMark Vantage

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If you wanted to, you could even breakdown all of these individual testing suites by the results for each separate test and get results based on the time, frames per second, etc. We may dive into that when we have some more time to play with the new PCMark Vantage software but for now the results we have are pretty interesting.

I applaud Futuremark for going after a more application-based and real-world-centric testing configuration this time around with PCMark Vantage. They quite obviously spent a lot of time on the new software suite and it shows – there are many more tests with more specific tasks in mind than we have ever seen in a Futuremark benchmark.

The testing scenarios are both useful and seem to be fairly accurate for normal users and how they utilize their systems. Image manipulation, video encoding and editing, music encoding, gaming, productivity: they are all covered. If you have a specific usage model that you think fits into your lifestyle, then you can focus your search for performance results on that testing suite to pick the right components for you and to find which ones create the biggest gains.

In the end, I look forward to using the new PCMark Vantage software in our upcoming processor and platform reviews to help us distinguish the advantages and disadvantages of each. My thanks go to PCMark for providing an extremely useful tool for the hardware enthusiast community!