PCMark 7 v1.4.0 released

 

PCMark Vantage v1.2.0 released

 

These feature official Win 8 compatibility. PCMark 7 has some major bugixes and scores of v1.4.0 are not comparable with older versions. Video transcoding test, web browsing test and storage test all feature bug fixes that influence scoring.

 

PCMark Vantage has some minor fixes, no changes in scores there. Windows 8 full compatibility for PCMark Vantage requires Windows 8 Media Center Pack as by default Win 8 does not include a MPEG2 codec.

 

Also note that this update ditches PCMark Vantage trial version - the basic edition is now freely available with no limitations on number of runs and works the same as, for example, PCMark 7 Basic Edition.

Edited March 4, 201312 yr by FM_Jarnis

Trying it soon, I bet you can still completely fool Web Test by sending in empty files.

PCMarks are definitely not hardened against cheating. Considering how much they rely on various windows parts, it is effectively impossible to do so. So if you want to fool around and get silly numbers, there are many ways to do so.

 

That's also the main reason why there is no FM Hall of Fame for them.

How high is the difference between the two versions ?

Score is higher or lower?

 

- If higher => "awesome benchmark, love it"

- If lower => "hate this benchmark, ditch it"

 

... is what community members will write.

Other way around here

No one likes any of these, so unless the scores are much higher it's like it never happened.

 

EDIT: So on my laptop from ~2900 to ~3500, and using lower GPU clocks too. Will test more.

Edited March 4, 201312 yr by GENiEBEN

lol, quite a boost. Only under windows 8 or did you test windows 7?

Both on 7.

k thanks.

In general the scores should go up and they go up substantially enough that the scores cannot be compared to previous versions.

 

The only case where they could go down is with storage that uses compression on the hardware level and somehow benefited about it a lot on the previous version -then the storage test might go down a few percent. On normal HDD or SSD there should be no major differences here either.

PCMarks are definitely not hardened against cheating. Considering how much they rely on various windows parts, it is effectively impossible to do so. So if you want to fool around and get silly numbers, there are many ways to do so.

 

None of the exploits rely on Windows components to fail

If I get a chance I will write a tutorial on my findings and share it.