SYSmark 2004 is BAPCo's latest revision of the mainstream
office productivity and Internet content creation benchmark used to characterize
the performance of the business client. It is based on a foundation of extensive
research into emerging usage models and computing trends and incorporates the
latest benchmarking methodologies to evaluate platform technologies. SYSmark
2004 contains scientifically designed workloads that represent the range of
activities that an office productivity or Internet content creation work may
encounter. In addition to extensive validation across multiple platforms, users
can be sure of a consistent and reliable performance comparison.