PCMark is a new benchmark from our pals at MadOnion
which a whole system benchmark. It can be used on desktop PC's, Laptops and even
Workstations and tests everyday computing from home to office usage. PCMark
specifically stresses the CPU, memory subsystem, graphics subsystem, hard
drives, WindowsXP GUI (if WinXP is used), video performance and even laptop
batteries. This benchmark was released March 12, 2002 and can be downloaded from
Madonion if you would like to give it a test run on your computer for
comparisons sake...
As with Sandra, the processor scores all stay around the same level because the
CPU speed is kept at 2.8 GHz for all tests. With the memory tests, again we
see when Granite Bay is equipped with a lone DIMM, performance is poorer. When
using dual DDR, performance is better then RDRAM.