WorldBench 6 is a new real-world benchmark designed to test PCs running the Windows 7 operating system. (For more information, visit www.worldbench.com.) Though WorldBench 6 resembles previous versions in appearance and navigation, we’ve put much behind-the-scenes work into making sure that it runs reliably on all editions–both 32-bit and 64-bit–of Windows 7, as well as on Windows Vista and XP.
Continuing the tradition of the previous versions of our test suite, WorldBench 6 uses application-based tests to gauge real-world system performance. We have updated its applications and tests to provide a better assessment of today’s more-powerful systems, which have larger amounts of RAM and multicore CPUs.
The applications in WorldBench 6 are:
- Adobe Photoshop CS2
- Autodesk 3ds max 8.0 SP-3
- Firefox 2
- Microsoft Office 2003 with SP-1
- Microsoft Windows Media Encoder 9.0
- Nero 7 Ultra Edition
- Roxio VideoWave Movie Creator 1.5
- WinZip Computing WinZip 10.0