PCMark Vantage
Futuremark’s PCMark Vantage does quite the thorough evaluation, testing your system on a number of practical applications. Unfortunately, it completely fails to report its findings in a useful format, instead opting to assign arbitrary score numbers that are largely meaningless. Still, run enough systems through the same benchmark and you’ll start to see some trends in comparison. Here’s the score for our test system:
3DMark 06 & Vantage
3DMark 06 is quite old now, as such things go, but it remains relevant due to the large number of games that operate in DirectX9 mode. As with PCMark, it doesn’t report its findings in any objective fashion, but comparisons can still be made:
3DMark Vantage is still the newest iteration of the 3DMark benchmark, offering a look at how games that support DirectX10 will perform. Note that the scores for any 3DMark result will be affected as much—if not more—by your choice of video card as they will by your CPU.
Anyone have the foggiest idea what this says?