Sysmark 2004 disponibile

BaPCo ha appena rilasciato una nuova versione del popolare tool di benchmarking Sysmark, giunto alla versione 2004.
Sysmark manda in eseguzione un gruppo piuttosto ampio di popolari applicazioni, misurando le performances medie del sistema nell'esecuzione di routine di utilizzo quotidiano.

Il risultato fornito alla fine dell'esecuzione del benchmark è un'indicazione media delle prestazioni velocistiche del sistema, influenzata sia dal tipo di processore che da dotazione di memoria e da sistema di storage.

Il benchmark si divide in due gruppi di sottotest:

Internet Content Creation:
- Adobe® After Effects® 5.5
- Adobe® Photoshop® 7.01
- Adobe® Premiere® 6.5
- Discreet® 3ds max™ 5.1
- Macromedia® Dreamweaver® MX
- Macromedia® Flash MX
- Microsoft® Windows Media® Encoder 9 Series
- Network Associates® McAfee® VirusScan® 7.0
- WinZip Computing WinZip® 8.1

Office Productivity:
- Adobe® Acrobat® 5.0.5
- Microsoft® Access 2002
- Microsoft® Excel 2002
- Microsoft® Internet Explorer 6
- Microsoft® Outlook® 2002
- Microsoft® PowerPoint® 2002
- Microsoft® Word 2002
- Network Associates® McAfee® VirusScan® 7.0
- ScanSoft® Dragon Naturally Speaking® 6 Preferred
- WinZip Computing WinZip® 8.1

Di seguito, un estratto dal comunicato stampa ufficiale:

Burlingame, California – December, 15th, 2003 – The latest version of the premier performance metric that measures and compares PC performance based on real world applications was released today by the Business Application Performance Corporation or BAPCo®, a non-profit consortium of leading computer industry publications, independent testing labs, PC hardware manufacturers, semiconductor manufacturers and software publishers.

SYSmark® 2004 extends the SYSmark family of productivity benchmarks, which have been widely accepted by IT Managers, PC OEMs, press and analysts worldwide. It represents a ground-up development, featuring new user driven workloads and usage models developed by application experts using the applications in manners which reflect current and emerging computing trends.

SYSmark 2004 is used by PC OEMs, hardware and software developers, IT departments, system integrators, publishers and testing labs as well as Information technologists and computer industry analysts.