Overview

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.

Features

• Digital Memories 1 & 2
• TV and Movies 1 & 2
• Gaming 1 & 2
• Music 1 & 2
• Communication 1 & 2
• Productivity 1 & 2
• 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
• Video playback
• GPU game test
• 6 seperate HDD tests

System Requirements

• Processor: Modern processor with SSE2 support, Intel Pentium 4 at 3.0GHz or equivalent AMD processor, Multi-core processors recommended
• Graphics Card: Shader Model 2.0 compliant graphics card, Shader Model 3.0 compliant graphics card for the GPU image manipulation test, 256MB of graphics memory for the GPU gaming test recommended
• Hard Disk: 1.7 GB of free hard disk space, NTFS File System
• System Memory: 1024 MB or more
• Operating System: Microsoft Windows Vista® Ultimate / Home Premium / Home Basic / Enterprise / Business
• Additional Required Applications: Windows Media Player 11, Latest DirectX Update for Windows Vista, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7