BAPCo consortium

BAPCo, Business Applications Performance Corporation, is a non-profit consortium with a charter to develop and distribute a set of objective performance benchmarks for personal computers based on popular software applications and operating systems.

BAPCo's current membership includes AMD, Apple, ARCintuition, Atheros Communications, CNET, Compal Electronics, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Lenovo, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Samsung, SanDisk, Seagate, Sony, Toshiba, VIA Technologies, VNU Business Publications Limited (UK), ZDNet and Ziff Davis.

Products

MobileMark 2007, released August 2007

MobileMark® 2007 is latest version of the premier performance qualified battery life metric based on real world applications. MobileMark ® 2007 runs on both Windows® Vista™ and Windows® XP Professional and Home. MobileMark® 2007 extends the MobileMark family, which has been widely accepted by IT Managers, PC OEMs, press and analysts worldwide to support Windows® Vista™.

MobileMark® 2007 allows users to directly compare platforms based on Windows® Vista™ to those based on Windows® XP Professional and Home. The new release also incorporates numerous new features and enhancements such as an improved GUI allowing streamlined start-up and run along with a heads-up-display (HUD) and automated error reporting.

Recognizing the increasing diversity in the use of notebook computing, MobileMark 2007 features DVD, Wireless and Reader modules in addition to the existing core Productivity module. Each module includes a robust and refreshed set of applications and can be run individually to show battery life in a greater variety of specific scenarios. BAPCo's MobileMark 2007 builds upon its predecessors utilizing the strongest and broadest development team in PC benchmark history. BAPCo's depth of membership represents the breadth of the computing industry and harnesses a consortium of experts.^[2]

SYSmark 2007 Preview, released April 2007

SYSmark® 2007 Preview is the latest version of the premier performance metric that measures and compares PC performance based on real world applications. SYSmark® 2007 Preview extends the SYSmark family, which has been widely accepted by IT Managers, PC OEMs, press and analysts worldwide to support Windows® Vista™. SYSmark 2007 Preview allows users to directly compare platforms based on Windows® Vista™ to those based on Windows® XP Professional and Home.

The new release also incorporates numerous new features and enhancements such as an improved GUI allowing streamlined start-up and run along with a heads-up-display (HUD) and automated error reporting. SYSmark 2007 Preview is an application-based benchmark that reflects usage patterns of business users in the areas of Video creation, E-learning, 3D Modeling and Office Productivity. This new release includes a robust and refreshed set of applications.

The SYSmark families of benchmarks are used by PC OEMs, hardware and software developers, IT departments, system integrators, publishers and testing labs as well as Information technologists and computer industry analysts. BAPCo's SYSmark 2007 Preview builds upon its predecessors utilizing the strongest and broadest development team in PC benchmark history. BAPCo's depth of membership represents the breadth of the computing industry and harnesses a consortium of experts.^[3]

MobileMark 2005, released May 2005

MobileMark® 2005 is the premier notebook battery life and performance under battery life metric based on real world applications for Windows® XP platforms. Recognizing the increasing diversity in the use of notebook computing, MobileMark 2005 features two new additional test modules, DVD and wireless browsing. These new modules are provided in addition to the existing core office productivity and reader run modes.

The new DVD module is the first DVD playback battery life test to feature professionally authored, studio quality content which has been provided by BMW®. This content together with the DVD module allows users to evaluate the DVD playback time of a notebook (see white paper for further details). The new wireless browsing module allows users to measure web browsing battery life in a wireless environment. This is the first standardized test to measure battery life in a mobile PC under wireless connectivity. MobileMark 2005 also features a new GUI (Graphical User Interface) and a new pre-run analysis tool to ensure correct system setup and to minimize errors.

Benchmarks designed by BAPCo are the result of a cooperative agreement between industry leading companies from a variety of disciplines ranging from publications, testing labs, PC manufacturers and semiconductor manufacturing. BAPCo's depth of membership represents the breadth of the computing industry and harnesses a consortium of knowledge to better reflect today's and tomorrow's emerging business trends.^[4]

SYSmark 2004 SE, released June 2005

SYSmark® 2004 SE (Second Edition) is the premier performance metric that measures and compares PC performance based on real world applications under both 64 and 32-bit Windows® XP platforms.

SYSmark® 2004 SE extends the SYSmark 2004 productivity benchmark, which has been widely accepted by IT Managers, PC OEMs, press and analysts worldwide to support Windows® XP Professional x64 Edition.^[5]

WebMark 2004, released January 2004

WebMark® 2004, the latest version of the Internet client metric based on real world Internet technologies, measures and enables comparison of PC performance. It is a ground-up development, featuring new user driven workloads. WebMark is based on a foundation of extensive research into emerging usage models and computing trends. It incorporates the latest benchmarking methodologies to evaluate platform technologies.

WebMark 2004 is an Internet technology based benchmark that accurately reflects usage patterns for business users in two Internet usage categories - Information Processing and Commercial Transactions. Each category represents the workload of a simulated user accomplishing a set of common tasks.^[6]

Benchmarks designed by BAPCo are the result of a cooperative agreement between industry leading companies from a variety of disciplines ranging from publications, testing labs, PC manufacturers and semiconductor manufacturing. BAPCo's depth of membership represents the breadth of the computing industry and harnesses a consortium of knowledge.

SYSmark 2004 - – (This product has been discontinued), released December 2003

SYSmark® 2004 is a mainstream office productivity and Internet content creation benchmark used to characterize the performance of the business client. It is based on a foundation of extensive research into emerging usage models and computing trends and incorporates the latest benchmarking methodologies to evaluate platform technologies. SYSmark 2004 contains scientifically designed workloads that represent the range of activities that an office productivity or Internet content creation work may encounter. In addition with extensive validation across multiple platforms, users can be sure of a consistent and reliable performance comparison.

Benchmarks designed by BAPCo are the result of a cooperative agreement between industry leading companies from a variety of disciplines ranging from publications, testing labs, PC manufacturers and semiconductor manufacturing. BAPCo's depth of membership represents the breadth of the computing industry and harnesses a consortium of knowledge to better reflect today's and tomorrow's emerging business trends.^[7]

SYSmark 2002 - (This product is discontinued)

SYSmark 2002 provides an application-based benchmark that accurately reflects usage patterns for business users in the areas of Internet Content Creation and Office Productivity. SYSmark 2002 supports Microsoft(R) Windows(R) XP (Professional and Home), Windows(R) 2000 and Windows(R) Millennium Edition. MadOnion.com(TM), a leading provider of PC benchmark software and performance information services, will provide marketing support and distribution for SYSmark 2002.

SYSmark 2002 is used to measure and compare PC performance based on real applications by PC OEMs, hardware and software developers, IT departments, system integrators, publishers and testing labs. SYSmark 2002 also forecasts future desktop computing needs by Information technologists and computer industry analysts.^[8]

Changes made between SYSmark 2001 and SYSmark 2002 skewed final test results in favor of Intel products. These changes included removing all tests favoring AMD Athlon CPUs, increasing the weighting of those test that favored Intel architecture, and increased repetition for those test that favored Intel CPUs.^[1]

MobileMark 2002- (This product has been discontinued)

MobileMark™ 2002 is a notebook computer benchmark program for mobile computers running Windows XP and Windows 2000. The primary purpose of this benchmark is to measure how long a mobile computer can run on a single battery charge. What makes MobileMark 2002 unique is that it measures system performance while the battery is discharging, and the benchmark reports both a performance score and a battery run time.

Today's notebook computers typically adjust performance to extend battery life. MobileMark 2002 shows you how well a notebook performs under battery power, to reveal a balanced performance and battery life picture. For MobileMark2002, BAPCo, using its expertise in creating other industry standard benchmarks like SYSmark 2002, created workloads specifically suited for testing notebook computers. The user has the choice of running MobileMark under a Productivity workload or a Reader workload, which simulate two different usage models.

MobileMark 2002 allows notebook OEMs, IT departments, reviewers, publishers, testing laboratories and notebook users to evaluate mobile systems in today's more realistic mobile environment.^[9]

The SYSmark series of benchmarks measure application performance on Microsoft Windows based computers. SYSmark 2007 Preview includes common business applications like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PhotoShop, Illustrator, WinZip, Vegas and 3D Studio Max.

The MobileMark series of benchmarks measure battery life on Microsoft Windows based laptop computers. MobileMark 2007 includes common business applications like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PhotoShop, Illustrator and WinZip.