With today's launch of
PCMark05, Futuremark furthers its leading position as the benchmark
software provider of choice for the PC industry, IT managers, IT media
and consumers. PCMark05 is a totally new product and features the most
advanced workloads, including HD video transcoding, digital music
encoding, advanced threading and trace-based hard disk performance
tests.
PCMark05 enables truly objective performance comparisons between the
latest PC platforms and architectures and supports all the latest
technologies. PCMark05 features tests with advanced threading which
enable accurate benchmarking of the latest PCs with multi-core and
hyper-threaded CPUs.
PCMark05 supports the complete benchmark cycle - starting from
benchmarking a PC, viewing the resulting benchmark details, comparing
the results to those of others and finally providing means for
analyzing how to improve the PC's performance. PCMark05 produces highly
reliable and detailed benchmarking results with a simple, intuitive
user interface. An integrated Online ResultBrowser allows instant
results comparison against more than 12 million benchmark results in
Futuremark's ever increasing performance database.
PCMark05 features tools for both system and component level
benchmarking. System level benchmarking produces a measure of the PC's
overall performance. It is a single number that is easily comparable to
that of other PCs. However, advanced users and professional testers may
want to further explore the performance of individual components such
as the CPU, the memory, the graphics subsystem, and the hard disk.
Component level benchmarking helps them to isolate the performance of
individual components, exposing their strengths and weaknesses.
PCMark05 even includes the ability to create custom benchmarks by
putting together tests tailored to specific needs.
PCMark05 is immediately available in three versions. For private home
usage there are two versions: PCMark05 Basic, a freeware version with
limited functionality and PCMark05 Advanced ($19.95) with extended
functionality. For professional and business usage, PCMark05
Professional ($199.95) provides full functionality and additional
features enabling test automation. The free version can be downloaded at Futuremark (75MB)
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