PC Mark 2005 Released!

Saratoga, California USA – June 28, 2005 – With today’s launch of PCMark05, Futuremark furthers its leading position as the benchmark software provider of choice for the PC industry, IT managers, IT media and consumers. PCMark05 is a totally new product and features the most advanced workloads, including HD video transcoding, digital music encoding, advanced threading and trace-based hard disk performance tests.

You can check out the full release here. You can choose a variety of download sites here. This version is twice as large as ’04, memory wise, so it may pack a punch.

The difference between 3D Mark and PC Mark, is that while 3D Mark depends much more on your GPU, PC Mark takes advantage of all the components to get a better score. I already bought my copy, now to see how hurting my score will be!