WinBench99 and WinMark
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WinBench99 v1.2 is a subsystem-level benchmark that measures the performance of a PC’s graphics, disk, and video subsystems in a Windows environment. WinBench99’s tests can run on Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, and Windows Me systems. WinBench 99’s Disk WinMark 99 tests play back all the timed application disk activity in Winstone 99. In the course of these operations, the tests use many directories and hundreds of files that touch approximately 200MB of disk space. The illustration above shows AMI’s Elite 1600 handedly outperforming Atto’s UL3D. Though the differences are negligible, the Elite 1600 manages to top all but three of the benchmarks.
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Business Disk WinMark 99 measure disk subsystem performance. WinBench 99 tests act like the applications they are supposed to reflect. WinBench 99 primarily uses ZD’s proprietary playback technology to do this. The playback tests in WinBench 99 play back the actual subsystem-level Windows calls that Winstone 99 applications made while executing the Winstone scripts. WinBench 99’s Disk WinMark 99 tests play back all the timed application disk activity in Winstone 99. In the course of these operations, the tests use many directories and hundreds of files that touch approximately 200MB of disk space. The above image shows the Elite outperforming the UL3D by more than a thousand WinMarks.
