This is just a quick post announcing that Futuremark will be releasing PCMark 7 “soon”.  Limited information is available at the moment, as price and launch date are yet to be announced. What we do know is this, taken from a private Futuremark press release:

PCMark 7 includes more than 20 individual workloads combined into 7 separate suites to give different views of system performance.

The PCMark Suite measures overall system performance and returns an official PCMark score.

• -    The Lightweight Suite measures the capabilities of entry level systems unable to run the full PCMark suite.
• -    The Entertainment Suite measures system performance in entertainment, media and gaming scenarios.
• -    The Creativity Suite measures performance in typical creativity scenarios involving images and video.
  -    The Productivity suite measures system performance scenarios using the Internet and office applications.
  -    The Computation Suite contains workloads that isolate the computation performance of the system.
• -    The Storage Suite contains workloads that isolate the performance of the PC’s storage system.

As we have said this is very early news so information is limited, however we will do our best to keep you informed as we find out more.

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