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Futuremark Debuts PCMark04 For PC Performance Benchmarking

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edited November 2003 in Science & Tech
Futuremark Corporation, a world-leading designer of both synthetic and real-world benchmarking applications, today unveiled PCMark04, the latest version in the popular PCMark benchmark series. Designed to allow users to compare the performance of their machines in real-world computing tasks to other users machines, PCMark04 continues to build upon the successes of its' predecessors.

PCMark04 builds on Futuremark’s strong benchmark development experience and provides a sophisticated tool for measuring PC performance for home usage. PCMark04 supports the complete benchmark cycle – allowing you to benchmark your PC, view the resulting benchmark details, compare your results to those of others, and finally analyze how to improve your PC performance. It produces highly reliable and detailed benchmarking results with a simple, intuitive user interface. An integrated Online ResultBrowser allows instant results comparison against more than 10 million benchmark results in Futuremark’s ever increasing performance database.

PCMark04 features 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. PCMark04 even includes the ability to create custom benchmarks by putting together tests tailored to specific needs.

Being an application-based benchmark, PCMark04 incorporates algorithms and application fragments that are most often used by the typical PC user. This allows PCMark04 to be a smaller installation, as well as being easier and faster to run. As far as possible, PCMark04 uses public domain applications whose source code can be freely examined by any user.

Read the full press release over at Futuremark.com

Download PCMark04 Today @ Futuremark.com

Source: Futuremark

Comments

  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    For the convenience of our members, short-media will host this. Please don't post the link outside of this site, as I don't want a huge flood of traffic. I'll post a link in a bit when it is finished. :)
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    Here you go:

    http://www.short-media.com/downloads/PCMark04.exe

    Enjoy!
  • SimGuySimGuy Ottawa, Canada
    edited November 2003
    OMG 325 KB/sec :)

    Thanks prime! :D
  • Mt_GoatMt_Goat Head Cheezy Knob Pflugerville (north of Austin) Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    SimGuy had this to say
    OMG 325 KB/sec :)

    Thanks prime! :D

    Wow!!! I second that. :D
  • TheSmJTheSmJ
    edited November 2003
    mtgoat had this to say
    SimGuy had this to say
    OMG 325 KB/sec :)

    Thanks prime! :D

    Wow!!! I second that. :D

    I third!

    Thanks!
  • ketoketo Occupied. Or is it preoccupied? Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    It won't run for me, saying I am missing a Windows Media Encoder blah blah. I am VERY up to date on Windows, including media player...so I went and found it HERE in case anyone else is getting this message.
  • TheLostSwedeTheLostSwede Trondheim, Norway Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    It stinks. Will only get you a total score, not splitted at all so you won't see where you win or lack in performance. And as Keto is saying, it needs a damn Windows media encoder?! I can live with DX9 as a must, but wtf? Futuremark has gotten greedy since '03.

    Thanks for seeding the stuff though. Appreciated!
  • TheSmJTheSmJ
    edited November 2003
    It aparently has to use it for one of the tests. It's no biggie though, it's not like they're making us install full blown WMP9.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    How's that for fast?
  • croc_croc_ New
    edited November 2003
    *thrax windows scheme scorching retinas.... must ..... look .... away ....*

    :P
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    I was playing with StarDock Window Blinds..Heh. I don't use that atrocious skin.. Ever. I use their default blackcomb skin, or one called Solid Edge.

    I took the screenshot amidst playing with skins.
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