BAPCo consortium

BAPCo, Business Applications Performance Corporation, is a non-profit consortium with a charter to develop and distribute a set of objective performance benchmarks for personal computers based on popular software applications and operating systems.

BAPCo's current membership includes AMD, Apple, ARCintuition, Atheros Communications, CNET, Compal Electronics, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Lenovo, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Seagate, Sony, Toshiba, VIA Technologies, VNU Business Publications Limited (UK), ZDNet and Ziff Davis.

Products

* SYSmark 2002
* MobileMark 2002
* SYSmark 2004, released December 2003
* [http://bapco.com/products/webmark2004/ WebMark 2004] , released January 2004
* [http://bapco.com/products/mobilemark2005/ MobileMark 2005] , released May 2005
* [http://bapco.com/products/sysmark2004se/ SYSmark 2004 SE] , released June 2005
* [http://bapco.com/products/sysmark2007preview/ SYSmark 2007 Preview] , released April 2007
* [http://bapco.com/products/mobilemark2007/ MobileMark 2007] , released August 2007

The SYSmark series of benchmarks measure application performance on Microsoft Windows based computers. SYSmark 2007 Preview includes common business applications like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PhotoShop, Illustrator, WinZip, Vegas and 3D Studio Max.

The MobileMark series of benchmarks measure battery life on Microsoft Windows based laptop computers. MobileMark 2007 includes common business applications like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PhotoShop, Illustrator and WinZip.

In Development

* [http://bapco.com/news.html#eecomark EEcoMark] - A Joint venture with Ecma International to Create a Performance-Qualified Energy Benchmark.

Testing Irregularities

Changes made between SYSmark 2001 and SYSmark 2002 skewed final test results in favor of Intel products. These changes included removing all tests favoring AMD Athlon CPUs, increasing the weighting of those test that favored Intel architecture, and increased repetition for those test that favored Intel CPUs. [cite web |url=http://www.vanshardware.com/reviews/2002/08/020822_AthlonXP2600/020822_AthlonXP2600.htm |title=Van's Hardware revisits BAPCo's SYSmark 2002 scandal |accessdate=2008-09-10 |format= |work=vanshardware.com ]

ee also

*Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation
*Benchmark (computing)
*Futuremark

References

External links

* [http://www.bapco.com/ BAPCo.com]