Passmark Performance Test Review

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Review of Passmark Performance Test powered by the Slant community.

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What are the best tools for benchmarking a Windows PC?

Pros

Pro
Gives consistent and reliable scores with percentile ranks for comparison

Includes a dial and a graph to compare with others over the world or your own benchmarks or people with same component.

Pro
Benchmarks can be optionally submitted online to add to the publicly available database

The database is useful to everyone before buying components too.

Pro
Includes customizable and advanced benchmarks

The standard full benchmark can be run x number of times. Each component has advanced benchmarks available.

Pro
Has an option to install on a USB device and benchmark from it

Can be useful for people benchmarking a lot.

Cons

Con
It costs money

Paid software with a 30 day free trial.

Con
Basically useless

On version v9 AMD held the top spots, since version v10 intel has the top 34 spots. That in itself raises some questions, the kicker? Number 35 the top AMD PC CPU is the 4300u laptop? Better than the 3950x? HEAVILY intel biased currently. Completely useless. Use another benchmark.