Its recent PCMark® 8 v2 benchmark suite was developed as the complete PC benchmark for home and business in collaboration with many of the industry’s biggest names including Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft and many semiconductor manufacturers. To gain a fuller view of system performance, a suite of modern benchmarks can be used adding the likes of Futuremark 3DMark® for graphics and GPU compute performance and Basemark CL from Rightware for total system compute. When the industry does not work together it can result in benchmarks that are not representative of real-world tasks and can be skewed to favor one hardware vendor over another. This has happened before and while one hardware vendor may benefit, the real loser is the consumer who is presented with skewed performance figures and may pay for a perceived performance benefit.
Ultimately, it is the consumer that wins when the industry works together. Benchmarks may be a valuable tool for your buying decision process and an important element in your final decision, but at the end of the day, the best and toughest benchmark is you.”
