PCMark Vantage
Futuremark’s newest benchmark suite, PCMark Vantage, was released just a week or two ago and we published an initial article on the new software that looked at some CPU performance as well as providing overviews for all the individual testing suites it uses and what kind of applications they emulate. The new Vantage software takes a much more real-world user-scenario approach to testing that previous PCMark software and as such deserves more time our benchmark analysis.If you haven’t yet done so, I would HIGHLY recommend you head over to my previous article that has a lot of detail on what these PCMark Vantage tests actually do. That will give you a better understanding of the results to aid in your potential purchasing decision.
Our first set off PCMark Vantage results show the new Phenom X4 9850 going all over the place; in the overall result the new processor takes position over the Phenom 990 is right on the tail of the Intel Q9450. The TV/Movies test and the Gaming test aren’t as friendly though as the X4 9850 is at the back of the pack.
