14. PCMark05

Like SYSmark 2004 SE, PCMark05 is all about determining performance. It comprises a full system suite, as well as individual tests that focus on the CPU, memory subsystem, graphics subsystem and hard drive. If part of a test suite should fail to complete, no PCMark05 score is given for that entire suite of tests.

The scores are scaled on an index from 1200 to 5500 points. The upper (5500) and lower (1200) scores are determined by high and low end reference systems, respectively. However, scores below 1200 and above 5500 can be achieved nonetheless.

Here are the diagrams for the PCMark05 results of the Averatec AV1050 as well as the other three competitors. As before, you can find our conclusions below.

PCMark05 - Result Analysis

The Averatec is able to dominate the field completely where hard drive performance is concerned. The fact that it comes in last in the CPU test is easily explained by the Pentium M 733's lower clock speed, as mentioned before.

The graphics performance of the integrated 855GME core could not be determined with PCMark05, since this test requires a graphics chip that supports the entire DX9 feature set. The 855GME does not possess programmable vertex and pixel shaders and is therefore only DX9 compatible, not DX9 compliant (or capable). For this reason, we are unable to furnish a system performance result for PCMark05.