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PCMark Vantage System Tests
PCMark Vantage is an objective hardware performance benchmark tool for PCs running 32- and 64-bit versions of Microsoft Windows Vista or Windows 7. PCMark Vantage is well suited for benchmarking any type of Microsoft Windows Vista/7 PC: from multimedia home entertainment systems and laptops, to dedicated workstations and high-end gaming rigs. Benchmark Reviews has decided to use a few select tests from the suite to demonstrate simulated real-world processor usage in this article. Our tests were conducted on 64-bit Windows 7, with results displayed in the chart below.
TV and Movies Suite
- TV and Movies 1 (CPU=50%, RAM=2%, GPU=45%, SSD=3%)
- Two simultaneous threads
- Video transcoding: HD DVD to media server archive
- Video playback: HD DVD w/ additional lower bitrate HD content from HDD, as downloaded from net
- TV and Movies 2 (CPU=50%, RAM=2%, GPU=45%, SSD=3%)
- Two simultaneous threads
- Video transcoding: HD DVD to media server archive
- Video playback, HD MPEG-2: 19.39 Mbps terrestrial HDTV playback
- TV and Movies 3 (SSD=100%)
- TV and Movies 4 (CPU=50%, RAM=2%, GPU=45%, SSD=3%)
- Video transcoding: media server archive to portable device
- Video playback, HD MPEG-2: 48 Mbps Blu-ray playback
Gaming Suite*
- Gaming 1 (CPU=30%, GPU=70%)
- Gaming 2 (SSD=100%)
- Gaming 3 (CPU=75%, RAM=5%, SSD=20%)
- Two simultaneous threads
- CPU game test
- Data decompression: level loading
- Gaming 4 (CPU=42%, RAM=1%, GPU=24%, SSD=33%)
- Three simultaneous threads
- GPU game test
- CPU game test
- HDD: game HDD
Music Suite
- Music 1 (CPU=50%, RAM=3%, GPU=13%, SSD=34%)
- Three simultaneous threads
- Web page rendering - w/ music shop content
- Audio transcoding: WAV -> WMA lossless
- HDD: Adding music to Windows Media Player
- Music 2 (CPU=100%)
- Audio transcoding: WAV -> WMA lossless
- Music 3 (CPU=100%)
- Audio transcoding: MP3 -> WMA
- Music 4 (CPU=50%, SSD=50%)
- Two simultaneous threads
- Audio transcoding: WMA -> WMA
- HDD: Adding music to Windows Media Player
* EDITOR'S NOTE: Hopefully our readers will carefully consider how relative PCMark Vantage is as "real-world" benchmark, since many of the tests rely on unrelated hardware components. For example, per the FutureMark PCMark Vantage White Paper document, Gaming test #2 weighs the storage device for 100% of the test score. In fact, according to PCMark Vantage the video card only impacts 23% of the total gaming score, but the CPU represents 37% of the final score. As our tests in this article (and many others) has already proven, gaming performance has a lot more to do with the GPU than the CPU, and especially more than the hard drive or SSD (which is worth 38% of the final gaming performance score).
Next we look at the results of the SiSoftware Sandra CPU tests.
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Comments
And I suppose the heat is really low because of 32nm chips? I guess I'm more amazed at the newer CPUs out now and the low heat they put out. But I'm pretty damn impressed all around. I've always loved small everything. I just sold my 2007 Toyota Tacoma Access cab 4WD and bought a brand new Nissan Cube (actually traded it car for car plus 860.0). I'm just going into a small is good frame of mind, and that's because small means efficiency, and who in the know doesn't like that?
I can see myself building something like this, but not the HTCP model MB, with my next upgrade. I can see I'll probably be using a mini case or at least small too. Pretty exciting.
Thanks for the review.