

For those people you shouldn't remove once available options just because you find it pointless. You as developer should understand that your customers will want to do things you find pointless or beyond reason.
Pcmark 10 scores explained windows 10#
Then there is the issue of Time Spy requiring Windows 10 - so Run All would either fail without Win 10, or run only some tests depending on the configuration, complicating matters. Originally posted by UL_Jarnis:You can use the older 1.5 version if you insist (it is available under Betas), but like I said, in pretty much all cases two or three tests tops are relevant in any way.Īlso with the new tests coming in, such a "run all" button would take exceedingly long time to complete as there are so many tests. Really the only time you get anything useful out of running a too light or too heavy test is if you insist on specifically comparing two very different systems - comparing that $300 ultrabook to a $3000 monster desktop - and even then the comparison is probably going to understate the difference in capabilities, as the lightweight test run on the monster desktop will end up CPU limited on the graphics tests while a very heavy test on the very low end ultrabook may end up with so low framerate ( <5fps) that it will inevitably harm the accuracy of the test. The change was made in part to save your time to avoid running tests that would not give good data for the system you have and in part to avoid constant queries on, for example, "why Ice Storm score varies a lot on i7-6700K and GTX 1080 SLI? Is it a bad benchmark?" (no its not a bad benchmark, it is waaaaaaaay too lightweight for the system, so framerate is in the thousands, which means that very tiny fluctuations in available CPU time causes large fluctuations in the final score) Ice Storm in fact is useless on anything other than tablets running desktop windows or very low end PCs from more than 5 years ago.

If you have a high end gaming desktop and get suggested Time Spy or Fire Strike, then the low end tests (Ice Storm, Cloud Gate) are literally pointless to run as on such a system they would be CPU-limited on the graphics tests (so the graphics score doesn't really measure your GPU - the GPU is "too fast" for the test). It was removed and replaced with the suggested test that you probably should run (based on detected hardware config).ģDMark has a wide selection of tests tailored for different types of PCs - there is never any really good reason to run *all* the tests on a specific system.
