Sapphire Pure Platinum A75 Motherboard Review

System BenchmarksPCMark Vantage

PCMark Vantage 1.0.2 build 1901 is a Diagnostic Software product from futuremark.com, get 5 Stars SoftSea Rating, PCMark Vantage is a PC benchmark suite designed for Windows Vista offering one-click simplicity for casual users and detailed, professional grade testing for industry, press and enthusiasts.

A PCMark score is a measure of your computer performance across a variety of common tasks such as viewing and editing photos, video, music and other media, gaming, communications, productivity and security.

From desktops and laptops to workstations and gaming rigs, by comparing your PCMark Vantage score with other similar systems you can find the hardware and program bottlenecks that stop you getting more from your PC.

PCMark Vantage measures the performance of the latest PC hardware across a variety of common scenarios. PCMark Vantage supports both system level and component level benchmarking and comprises several different test suites.

PCMark Vantage saw the true potential of the board compared to the Asus. Also when overclocked and CrossFire’d with a 6670, the score went up quite remarkably, but more so with the overclock.

PCMark 7

PCMark 7 provides a set of 7 suites for measuring different aspects of PC performance with a high degree of accuracy. Overall system performance is measured by the PCMark Suite. The Lightweight Suite measures the capabilities of entry level systems and mobility platforms unable to run the full PCMark suite. Common use performance is measured by the Entertainment, Creativity and Productivity scenario suites. Component performance is measured by the Computation and Storage hardware suites. The Storage suite is ideal for testing SSDs and external hard drives in addition to the system drive.

The results in PCMark 7 are very much similar due to the way the application runs and the overall scoring system, but were pretty much where we expected them to be.