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Hardware benchmark utility that allows everybody to assess the performance of their computer and compare it.

PassMark PerformanceTest is an award winning PC
hardware benchmark utility that allows everybody to
quickly assess the performance of their computer and
compare it to a number of standard 'baseline' computer
systems.

Twenty five standard benchmark tests are available in six test suites plus there are five advanced testing windows for custom benchmarking.

Features:

- CPU tests (mathematical operations, compression, encryption, ...)
- Tests of standard two dimensional graphical functions
- Reading, writing and seeking within disk files
- Memory allocation and access
- DirectX 3D graphics animation
- MMX / SSE and 3DNow! tests
- CD / DVD speed testing
- Disk
- CD / DVD
- 3D graphics
- Networking* (for Ethernet, Internet and Wireless)
- Memory
- Multi-tasking
- Comprehensive online help
- Detailed disk speed graphs
- Support for printing results
- The ability to save your benchmark results to disk as a new baseline.
- A 'Notes' field for storing your own information along with the saved Benchmark result.
- Support for copying the results to other applications (eg. MS-Word)
- Export results to HTML, text, GIF, and BMP formats
- Single test execution, execution of a test suite or execution of all tests with a single mouse click.
- A summary 'Mark' figure for each test suite plus the calculation of the PassMark Rating figure.
- An easy to use point and click interface
- A summary system information screen including CPU type, CPU speed, Total RAM, Video Hardware, Cluster size, etc..
- The ability to compare the performance of your computer to multiple 'Baseline' computers at the one time


The following standard test suites are currently available:

- CPU test suite
- CPU operations
- Graphics test suite
- Tests of standard two dimensional graphical functions
- Disk test suite
- Reading, writing files
- CD/DVD test suite
- CD read speed test
- 3D Graphics test suite
- Tests the DirectX 3D graphics system