Futuremark heeft zojuist een nieuwe versie van PCMark uitgebracht die de naam PCMark05 heeft meegekregen. De nieuwbakken uitvoering is via deze pagina vanaf verschillende mirrorservers te downloaden. Het is ook mogelijk om de 2005-versie via BitTorrent naar binnen te halen, daarvoor klik je hier om de torrent vanaf onze fileserver op te pikken. PCMark05 is een benchmarkprogramma om de algehele prestaties van een computer te testen. Zo wordt niet alleen de grafische kaart aan een test onderworpen (daarvoor pak je bijvoorbeeld 3DMark ), maar worden de processor, harde schijven en het werkgeheugen getoetst. Daarnaast wordt het systeem druk aan het werk gezet: video wordt geëncode en geluid wordt omgezet naar een ander formaat. Hieronder zijn de release notes van PCMark05 te lezen:
Key User Benefits of PCMark05:PCMark05 Test Suites:
- Easy to Use: Easy to use for both novice users, benchmarking professionals, industry vendors and press labs;
- Complete Benchmarking Cycle: Benchmark a PC, view the resulting benchmark details, compare the results to those of others, and finally analyze how to improve the PC's performance;
- System and Component Performance: Expose both overall system performance as well as isolate performance of individual PC components;
- Integrated Online ResultBrowser: Instantly compare results to the world's largest database of performance data with global validation.
- System Test Suite: Extensive collection of application-based tests that are relevant in typical home use of a PC; tasks include hard disk drive access, video encoding, audio compression, 2D user interface tasks, 2D graphics memory access, web page rendering, file decryption and encryption, memory access and text editing.
- CPU Test Suite: Includes tests that isolate the performance of the CPU; tasks include file compression and decompression, file encryption and decryption, audio compression and decompression and image decompression;
- Memory Performance Testing: Tests measure the performance of the memory subsystem; these tasks include reading, writing and copying access to data blocks in the L1 cache, L2 cache, and main memory as well as latency tests;
- Graphics Test Suite: Tests measure both 2D and 3D graphics performance of the PC. 2D tasks measure moving and transparent 2D dialog performance, graphics memory performance and video playback performance. 3D tasks exercise pixel shader, vertex shader, fill rate and polygon throughput capabilities for the graphics subsystem;
- Hard Disk Drive Test Suite: Uses disk activity traces from real-life tasks; these tests isolate the performance of the hard disk drive. Disk activities measured include Windows® XP startup, application loading, file writing, virus scanning and general disk usage.