PCMark 7
 

Anyone jived with this yet? Was released today. Kinda dumb the free edition only has one test but for $39.95 you can have all the tests. WTF? Seems to make more sense to me if they offered more test on the free edition or have the paid edition at a cheaper price. WTF do I know though.

http://www.pcmark.com/benchmarks/pcmark7/

Dudes,

If you've already bought 3DMark Vantage or 3DMark 11 they give you a discount. for some reason my codes didn''t work so I have to look for my old notes. Can't report at this time what the discount is, but the basic test looks pretty worthless.

It's a PC Mark05 deja-vu, only with a "glitch", the tests are looped 3 times.
If they make a change and change the loop count to 0 ( just 1 run ) or allow us to choose how many loops to run then I can see it replacing PC Mark05 VERY EASILY.

what you saying Willis :eek:

is this allll storage related or have they made it more well roaded to include mem bandwith cpu speed gpu speed etc

Looks less storage-dependent than PC Mark05, but I haven't done any kind of serious testing to say "absolutely".

Maybe tomorrow...

i tried it on Sr-2 rig.

3288 score.

Noticed that Pcmark7 only uses max of 6 cores in benchmark, so SR-2 owners will be dissapointed.

I think the video transcoding test utilizes 12+ threads

not all my cores get used when i run this benchmark, will try in the weekend more with affinity and so on.

but i see that i don't like it this benchmark

downloading......