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 features
PCMark 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 Suite
The 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 Tests
6 seperate HDD tests


Advanced and Professional test suites
PCMark 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 productivity performance as well as specific storage system tests.

Memories Suite measures the system's performance when handling digital photos and video.
The TV and Movies Suite measures performance when transcoding and displaying TV and movies.
Gaming Suite measures the system's ability to run the latest games.
Music Suite measures performance when working with music files.
Communications Suite measures the system's performance in various communication scenarios.
Productivity Suite measures performance when running common productivity software.
HDD Suite measures the system's storage performance.

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