PCMark Vantage
Futuremark’s newest benchmark suite, PCMark Vantage, was released earlier this year 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.
Well, the good news is that we were able to successfully run PCMark Vantage tests on the A330ION. But, the scores we received during are what you would expect from a low-power dual core 1.6GHz processor and onboard ION 1.0 graphics. They are great for general tasks, and even high definition video playback, but I wouldn’t try to use it for any apps that require crunching numbers or performing complex computations.
