


The Creativity test measures performance in typical creativity scenarios involving images and video. The Entertainment test measures system performance in entertainment, media and gaming scenarios. The Lightweight test measures the capabilities of entry level systems unable to run the full PCMark test. The PCMark test measures overall system performance and returns an official PCMark score.

PCMark 7 includes more than 25 individual workloads combined into 7 separate tests to give different views of system performance. With so much choice available, PCMark 7 is an essential and easy to use tool to test and compare PC performance accurately and reliably across a wide range of usage scenarios. Hardware innovations like solid state drives (SSDs), and new form factors such as netbooks and tablets are greatly increasing the range of PC performance available to businesses and home users. PCMark 7 includes 7 separate tests combining more than 25 individual workloads covering storage, computation, image and video manipulation, web browsing and gaming. PCMark 7 is a new benchmark offering complete PC performance testing for Windows 7.
