PCMark Vantage (cont’d)
The music suite in the Vantage application tests your systems audio transcoding performance with both lossless and lossy codecs. The QX9650 is again the performance leader with the dual core processors falling behind.
The communications suite of PCMark Vantage is modeled after application uses like multi-tabbed browsing, security scanners like Windows Defender and running IM programs and VoIP clients like Skype. Again we see the same type of gap between the two quad-core processors and dual-core systems. But again, the AMD processors are very competitive with the Intel X6800 and E6750 CPUs.
The collection of productivity tests includes scenarios like large scale text editing while multi-tab browsing, program stat up times and Windows Contact Manager searches as well as Vista start up times. The creation of there performance tiers continues here with the quad-core QX9650 actually coming in just behind the QX6850 though they are essentially in a tie.
The hard drive suite combines many of the HDD tests from the other suites mentioned above and includes runs of Windows Defender, game loading, Vista start up and more. This is the one test that AMD was able to win! In reality all the scores are very close here though the AMD 690G chipset might have a slight advantage with the 6000+ and 5600+ leading all but one of the Intel processors.
