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About 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 Consumer Scenarios
- Digital Memories 1 & 2
- TV and Movies 1 & 2
- Gaming 1 & 2
- Music 1 & 2
- Communication 1 & 2
- Productivity 1 & 2

From: Developer's Page

PCMark Vantage is a favorite benchmarking program for PC enthusiasts and reviewers alike, because it provides a very easy way to measure performance of different computers. It evaluates a system from eight perspectives (We only included the first seven results, since the HDD test is not very relevant to a RAM review), and can be considered a synthetic real life benchmark. From our results above, you will notice one distinct trend. On our Sandy Bridge test platform, it is safe to say the faster the RAM, generally the higher the score -- although there are rare exceptions. All of our recorded data can be seen and compared in our series of charts above.