Futuremark releases PCMark2005

PCMark05 is the latest version of the PC performance benchmark program from Futuremark Corporation. This unique program provides an accurate and consistent assessment of the performance of your PC in general home environment usage. PCMark05 can be easily obtained and it is easy to install and run.

By using PCMark05 and the Online ResultsBrowser, you can get:
– A PCMark score – recognised and comparable measurement of the home environment performance of your PC.
– Detailed results of all tests.
– A comparison of your machine against thousands of others, from every corner of the globe!
– An educated estimate as to how much better your system will perform with certain upgrades.

PCMark05 features:
PCMark05 comes in three versions, Basic Edition, Advanced Edition and Professional Edition. PCMark05 Basic Edition can be downloaded freely, but it has very limited functionality.

Basic Edition features:
– System tests, presenting the total PCMark score.
– Online services. Submit your results and compare them to – PCMark05 results from all over the world.

Advanced Edition features:
– System tests, presenting the total PCMark score.
– CPU test suite, giving a CPU score
– Memory test suite, giving a Memory score.
– Graphics test suite, giving a graphics score.
– HDD test suite and a total HDD score.
– System Info, showing your PC hardware and system software in detail.
– Online services. Submit your results and compare them to – PCMark05 results from all over the world.

Professional Edition features (in addition to above):
– Customizability options over the tests including multithreaded tests modification
– Command line options

Requirements:
– Microsoft Windows XP operating system.
– Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 installed, for Web Browsing test and SystemInfo (download).
– Microsoft Media Player 10 (download)
– Microsoft Media Encoder 9 download).
– DirectX 9.0c or higher runtime (included in the PCMark05 – Advanced and Professional CD installation package, and available as download)
– Required Hardware
– PCMark05 package requires approx. 110MB of Hard Disk space and running the tests require additional 130MB space.