PCMark Vantage

PCMark Vantage is a PC benchmark suite designed for Windows Vista offering one-click simplicity for casual users and detailed, professional grade testing for industry, press and enthusiasts.A PCMark score is a measure of your computer`s performance across a variety of common tasks such as viewing and editing photos, video, music and other media, gaming, communications, productivity and security.From desktops and laptops to workstations and gaming rigs, by comparing your PCMark Vantage score with other similar systems you can find the hardware and software bottlenecks that stop you getting more from your PC.PCMark Vantage featuresPCMark Vantage measures the performance of the latest PC hardware across a variety of common scenarios. PCMark Vantage supports both system level and component level benchmarking and comprises several different test suites. Please refer to the PCMark Vantage whitepaper and PCMark Vantage Help for more detailed information about the tests below.PCMark SuiteThe PCMark Suite is a collection of various tests designed to represent common everyday PC usage. The PCMark score is the direct result of the PCMark Suite test.PCMark Consumer Scenarios * Digital Memories 1 & 2 * TV and Movies 1 & 2 * Gaming 1 & 2 * Music 1 & 2 * Communication 1 & 2 * Productivity 1 & 2 CPU Tests* Data encryption, decryption, compression and decompression* CPU image manipulation (compression / decompression / resize / flipping)* Audio transcoding* Video transcoding* Text editing* Web page rendering* Windows Mail* Windows Contacts* CPU game test Graphics Tests* Video playback* GPU game test HDD TestsPCMark VantageAdvanced and Professional test suitesPCMark Vantage Advanced and Professional Editions include additional test suites covering consumer scenarios such as digital photography and video, HDTV and movies, gaming, music, communications and product