Futuremark's PCMark benchmark is designed to measure overall system performance, and takes into account CPU power, memory, system bandwidth and hard drive speed while performing such tasks as encoding, decoding, compressing, encrypting, decrypting, etc. Although the X3 720 results shown here were obtained from a different system I opted to include them for reference since performance should be similar.


Futuremark's latest version is PCMark Vantage, which displays a much wider spread between the four runs than we saw with PCMark05. Perhaps its advanced benchmarking tests more fully utilizes four cores over only three.