PCMark Vantage is a PC benchmark suite designed for Windows Vista offering one-click simplicity for casual users and detailed, professional grade testing for industry, press and enthusiasts.
A PCMark score is a measure of your computer’s performance across a variety of common tasks such as viewing and editing photos, video, music and other media, gaming, communications, productivity and security.
From desktops and laptops to workstations and gaming rigs, by comparing your PCMark Vantage score with other similar systems you can find the hardware and software bottlenecks that stop you getting more from your PC.
As the systems are using very different SSD drives, we have omitted these results from our graph as they bear no relation to the processing and system bandwidth benchmark results.
By now the results speak for themselves, the AMD X4 980 Black Edition is falling way behind the Core i5 2500k processor.