Page 9 - Benchmark: PCMark Vantage
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.
From: Developer's Page
PCMark Vantage aims to shed a little more insight into real life performance of your computer hardware by semi-synthetic means -- and all insight is good, right? The great thing about standardized tests is anyone can repeat them and get very similar results, given identical hardware. Well, I am not going to narrate the stuff above in detail, because we all know graphs are there for a very good reason. Just to give you a bit of insight if you are too lazy to go through all nine comparisons, the Kingston HyperX Savage 240GB delivered the highest overall SATA 6Gb/s drive score; even ahead of the Crucial MX200 500GB. PCMark Vantage uses some pretty simple simulations, so it is pretty optimized for drives with relatively fast linear read (It does funny things when you got a SandForce RAID array though). The results were very good as expected. In the subcategories, the HyperX Savage 240GB was, in general, very close to the MX200 and Ignite for the most part. On average, the HyperX Savage had a slight edge over the Patriot Ignite, which gave it a hair advantage in the overall mark. These are very impressive results for PCMark Vantage.
Page Index
1. Introduction, Packaging, Specifications
2. A Closer Look, Test System
3. Benchmark: AIDA64 Disk Benchmark
4. Benchmark: ATTO Disk Benchmark
5. Benchmark: Crystal Disk Mark 3.0
6. Benchmark: HD Tach 3.0.1.0
7. Benchmark: HD Tune Pro 4.60
8. Benchmark: PassMark PerformanceTest 8.0
9. Benchmark: PCMark Vantage
10. Conclusion
