Real-World System Productivity

SysMark 2002

Sysmark2002 incorporates the following Internet Content Creation and Office Productivity applications:

Office Productivity: Microsoft Word 2002, Microsoft Excel 2002, Microsoft PowerPoint 2002, Microsoft Outlook 2002, Microsoft Access 2002, Netscape Communicator® 6.0, Dragon Naturally Speaking Preferred v.5, WinZip 8.0, and McAfee Virus Scan 5.13.

Internet Content Creation: Adobe Photoshop® 6.01, Adobe Premiere® 6.0, Microsoft Windows Media Encoder 7.1, Macromedia Dreamweaver 4, and Macromedia Flash 5.

In office applications, more memory bandwidth doesn't seem to make much of a difference to the end results.

In Content Creation we get a different perspective. More meory bandwidth is needed to transfer large graphics between the CPU, System memory and Video controllers.