Are You Getting the Real Picture When Evaluating PCs for Business Use?
Test PCs with benchmarks that reflect the way your users work.
When evaluating PCs for your users, make sure you collect performance data from a variety of benchmarks.
All IT pros want to provide their users with high-performance PCs that best fit their needs. But what are the measurements and benchmarks needed to determine the best-performing PC for your business environment?
Some benchmarks, like PassMark, PerformanceTest, and Cinebench, run the risk of giving you an incomplete or unrealistic picture of how PCs would perform for your users. That’s
because they focus more on tasks that don’t fully reflect what typical PC users do, and on PC components rather than complete systems. To get a full picture of how a device will perform, you need benchmark scores that reflect the way most of your users actually work.
Download this solution brief to discover how, by expanding your benchmarking toolbox to include real and relevant measurements, you can gain more accurate insights into how devices will perform in an actual business environment so you can make the right IT decision for your business.
Explore this Intel Solution Brief to learn the best benchmarks to help you accurately gauge business PC performance.
CrossMark: Measures overall system performance and system responsiveness across operating systems and platforms and across support devices running Windows, Android, and others.
SYSmark: Measures system performance based on PC workloads such as editing videos and running Office applications.
Procyon: Measures a family of benchmarks for professional PC users across industries.
WebXPRT: Browser benchmark that compares the performance of nearly any web-enabled device.
4 Key Takeaways
Benchmarks are not all created equal. If you’re not careful, they can give you an incomplete or unrealistic picture of how PCs would perform in your business environment.
When evaluating PCs for your users, ensure that you collect performance data from various benchmarks. Look especially to those based on workloads and apps that reflect what users do with their devices.
The most useful benchmarks are those that measure performance based on real applications running relevant scenarios.
CrossMark, SYSmark, Procyon, and WebXPRT are benchmarks that meet these real and relevant criteria. By using benchmarks like these, you can better understand how a given system will perform than you could gain by relying on synthetic or specialized benchmarks alone.
“You have many options when it comes to evaluating PC performance for your business users. Your users’ productivity could suffer if you risk getting a limited or irrelevant view of the devices you are considering. When you expand your benchmarking toolbox to include real and relevant measurements, you can gain greater insight into how devices will perform in an actual business environment.”
Intel Solution Brief: Are You Getting the Real Picture When Evaluating PCs for Business Use?
Most business PC users are generalists, not specialists, using a set of core applications to do their jobs. For example, they use client or web applications to check messages and manage their calendars while working on documents or connecting with colleagues through collaboration tools. These workloads place demands on their computers that are very different from those generated by simulated workloads, such as those used in PassMark and Cinebench testing.
Intel Solution Brief: Are You Getting the Real Picture When Evaluating PCs for Business Use?