General Performance Continued

PCMark 10 offers a look into general computing performance, replacing the venerable PCMark 8. In addition, the newer version now leverages the graphics processor by default, compared to the separately conducted conventional and accelerated tests of the older release.

3DMark's CPU Profile test is a great way to check processor thread scaling performance. Essentially, the more cores and threads a CPU has, the better it should scale in this test.

In Adobe Premiere Pro, we track a subject through a scene as a moderate workload, which also makes use of a great deal of system memory. Like the blender test above, three runs are done to verify the results, which are all included in the chart for comparison.

To test performance in Adobe Photoshop, I utilize the relatively easy-to-use Puget Bench, which gives a repeatable test that targets multiple typical tasks done during photo editing.

Rounding out the general performance tests is 7-Zip, where we check compression and decompression performance via the built-in benchmark.

PCMark 10

CPU Profile

Adobe Premiere Pro

Puget Bench Photoshop Benchmark

7-Zip