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    Post your PCMark7 Benchmark scores here

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by huberth, Jun 22, 2011.

  1. huberth

    huberth Notebook Deity

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    PCMark 7 provides a set of 7 suites for measuring different aspects of PC performance with a high degree of accuracy, combining more than 25 individual workloads covering storage, computation, image and video manipulation, web browsing and gaming.

    It can be downloaded free: http://www.pcmark.com/benchmarks/pcmark7/download/

    Here are some results:

    Lenovo Thinkpad W520 (i 7-2820QM-NVIDIAQuadro2000M-15.6"-1920x1080 16GB (1866MHz) - 2x240GB Intel 510 SSDs in RAID 0 - BIOS 1.22 - WEI: 7.5-7.9-6.9-6.9-7.9 ) PCMarkVantage: 19,228 PCMark7: 4,558

    Lenovo Thinkpad W520 (i7-2920XM-NVIDIAQuadro2000M-15.6"-1920x1080 16GB (1600MHz) - 2x240GB Intel 510 SSDs in RAID 0 - BIOS 1.25 - WEI: 7.5-7.8-6.9-6.9-7.9 ) PCMarkVantage: 18,337 PCMark7: 4,629

    Please post yours.
     
    huberth, Jun 22, 2011
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  2. pkincy

    pkincy Notebook Evangelist

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    My X220 in my signature gets a 3824 on the PCMark7 test.

    My W520 gets a 3839 with a more powerful processor, supposedly faster SSDs, and a better graphics chip.

    Go figure.

    Interestingly to me, the PCMarkVantage test showed disk intensive operation about 3 times better on the X220 than the W520. The PCMark7 actually showed pretty comparable disk intensive times with the W520 getting the nod on graphics intensive parts of the test.

    I am still puzzled why my Sata 3 Gen 3 Crucial drives end up performing so much worse than the Gen 2 Intel X25-M in my X220.

    They actually AA SSD and CDM test roughly the same.
     
    pkincy, Jun 22, 2011
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  3. huberth

    huberth Notebook Deity

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    A chain is as strong as its weakest link.

    It could be a simple thing as enabling the write cache of your SSD or disabling SuperFetch (as Intel recommended for my Intel SSD).

    Or perhaps you had another program running when you did the benchmark, which slowed it down.

    Yes, synthetic benchmarks like CDM (CrystalDiskMark) can be misleading, that's why I like PCMark7 and PCMarkVantage - they are based on real world apps, but even they are not perfect. (What is AA bye the way?)
     
    huberth, Jun 22, 2011
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    Score 1141 on my old x300 :X
     
    nickzx6rr, Jun 22, 2011
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  5. turned2black

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    [​IMG]

    My i7 x220 with a Crucial M4 got a score of 4242.

    My E-350 x120e with a gimped Vertex 2 got 1706.
     

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  6. pkincy

    pkincy Notebook Evangelist

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    Sorry: AS SSD
     
    pkincy, Jun 22, 2011
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  7. thetoast

    thetoast Notebook Evangelist

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    Got 3257 out of the machine in my sig.
     
    thetoast, Jun 22, 2011
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  8. vinuneuro

    vinuneuro Notebook Virtuoso

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    Not sure why it's giving that message about the graphics driver. It's the one from Lenovo.

    EDIT: wrong one.
     
    vinuneuro, Jun 22, 2011
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  9. turned2black

    turned2black Notebook Consultant

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    I think that's 3DMark06.
     
    turned2black, Jun 23, 2011
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  10. vinuneuro

    vinuneuro Notebook Virtuoso

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    Oops, you're right. I downloaded it from the OP's link.. I'll find the right one and post tomorrow then.
     
    vinuneuro, Jun 23, 2011
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  11. Colonel O'Neill

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    I've said it before and I'll say it again, PCMark7 and PCMarkVantage are still synthetic benchmarks.

    I quote:
    "Graphics – DirectX 9
    We use Firefly scene from 3DMark06 to measure DirectX 9 graphics performance.
    Graphics – DirectX 10
    We use the feature tests from 3DMark Vantage to measure DirectX 10 graphics performance."
    Are these not the synthetic benchmarks you said you would use to measure GPU performance?

    Furthermore, my point about SSD's artificially inflating synthetic benchmark scores (hence making comparisons with platter drive scores meaningless) still holds.
     
    Colonel O'Neill, Jun 23, 2011
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  12. spam123

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    PCMark score 4245
     
    spam123, Jun 23, 2011
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  13. huberth

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    Great score.

    What is your configuration? SSD?

    You can put it into your signature if you like. Just go to UserCP (ControlPanel) in the upper left hand corner.
     
    huberth, Jun 25, 2011
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  14. sivikchen

    sivikchen Notebook Enthusiast

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    pcmark7 - 2476 pcmarks

    x220: i5-2540m, 320gb 7200rpm hitachi hdd, 6gb (2gb+4gb) RAM
     
    sivikchen, Jun 25, 2011
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  15. gump124

    gump124 Notebook Enthusiast

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    pcmark7 score: 4193

    setup in sig.
     
    gump124, Jun 26, 2011
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  16. TheLoneRaven

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    I got 4145.
     
    TheLoneRaven, Jul 19, 2011
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  17. PatchySan

    PatchySan Om Noms Kit Kat

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    I got 4457 on mine.
     
    PatchySan, Jul 19, 2011
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  18. huberth

    huberth Notebook Deity

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    Whew!

    Which SSD do you have?
     
    huberth, Oct 31, 2011
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    I got 6162 on my T400s
    I am using Ultrabay SSD (Mushkin Callisto deluxe 60 GB) as my boot drive.

    T400s System Configuration
    CPU: SP9400
    GPU: Intel GMA X4500MHD
    HDD: Toshiba 120 GB (1.8 inch 5400 RPM)
    RAM 4 GB DDR3
     
    arunmkumaran, Oct 31, 2011
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  20. huberth

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    Yes, but that's a PCMark Vantage score (not PCMark 7).
     
    huberth, Oct 31, 2011
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    arunmkumaran Notebook Geek

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    Yea! I made a mistake! couldn't delete the post :confused:
     
    arunmkumaran, Oct 31, 2011
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    PCMark 7: 1919

    T60p, T7600, ATi 5250, M4 SSD
     
    seiyafan, Oct 31, 2011
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    Here is my PCMARK 7 score 2198
     
    arunmkumaran, Oct 31, 2011
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    pkincy Notebook Evangelist

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    4119 with my Crucial M4

    Was in the mid 3900's with my C300.
     
    pkincy, Oct 31, 2011
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    d2tbydt2 Notebook Consultant

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    PCMark7 (version 1.0.4.0): 2894 PCMarks.
    T420s, i5-2530, 8GB, HD3000, 120GB Intel 310 SSD, Win2K8R2.
     
    d2tbydt2, Nov 1, 2011
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  26. seiyafan

    seiyafan Notebook Evangelist

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    I updated the video driver and plugged in the battery, now it is at 1964, my goal is to get it above 2k but it looks like not possible at stage.
     
    seiyafan, Nov 4, 2011
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  27. psychopomp1

    psychopomp1 Notebook Consultant

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    PCMark score of 4309 for my X220 - see sig ;)
     
    psychopomp1, Nov 13, 2011
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  28. sniper_sung

    sniper_sung Notebook Evangelist

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    I guess my X220 had the most powerful spec among all X220's before the i7 2640M's were released, though not necessarily the best score. For laptops I'm more keen on stability, reliability and battery life though.
     
    sniper_sung, Nov 13, 2011
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  29. FinkPad

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    hi, the downlink only provided me with pcmark7, but there's no pcmark vantage. Am I doing something wrong?
     
    FinkPad, Nov 24, 2011
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  30. Quanger

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    How relevant is this benchmark?
    It seems that the results greatly vary between SSD and regular platter drives.
     
    Quanger, Nov 24, 2011
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  31. FinkPad

    FinkPad Notebook Evangelist

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    PCMark7: score 1251. Lame I got the lowest here.
     
    FinkPad, Nov 24, 2011
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    I broke the 2k barrier by overclocking the Ati 5250 on my T60p, score went up to 2050. (of course this is only for benchmark purpose)
     
    seiyafan, Nov 24, 2011
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    Version: 1.0.4.0
    SystemInfo Version: 4.2
    11/25/11 4:06:50 AM
    Id: 211653
    Score:
    2411 PCMarks7

    System is as below.
     
    Quanger, Nov 24, 2011
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  34. homank76

    homank76 Alienware/Dell Enthusiast

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    Wrong Post
     
    homank76, Dec 9, 2011
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  35. jack53

    jack53 Dell XPS 9360 i7 Lover!

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    This is an old post, but I'll post anyways.

    I have the Lenovo ThinkPad W520 4270 with PCMark 7 4341 Score
    [​IMG]
     
    jack53, Jun 29, 2014
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