The Importance of PC Performance Benchmarks in the Workplace and at Home

Procyon^® benchmark suite

At UL Solutions, we have bundled industry-standard benchmarks for professional users into a benchmark suite: Procyon. Each Procyon benchmark provides a familiar, consistent experience by sharing a common design and feature set. You can purchase the entire suite or choose particular benchmarks that meet your needs — and then customize those benchmarks to fine-tune the tests further. Procyon benchmarks are designed for specific use cases and use real applications where possible. We work closely with industry partners to ensure that every Procyon benchmark is:

• Accurate — Consistently produces true and precise results
• Relevant — Measures the most important performance elements
• Neutral — Free of any product or vendor bias

How benchmarks help overcome IT challenges

Beyond helping employees with day-to-day computer issues, IT specialists standardize PC purchasing decisions based on system performance. They validate new hardware and Windows configurations to determine system stability. They quantify the performance impact of the operating system image changes and application updates and identify poorly performing systems. IT pros also test and measure PC performance against baselines. Benchmarks help with these tasks by standardizing performance testing and reporting.

Benchmarks support every stage in the PC life cycle. They aid planning and procurement by simplifying PC performance comparison and cost justification. For validation and standardization, benchmarks test and compare the performance of new PCs against user-defined baselines checking performance before and after the installation of images, software or applications. Benchmarks provide reliable insights and reporting through efficient and automated remote performance testing. Benchmark results help IT teams make informed PC life-cycle decisions and ultimately decide whether to optimize or replace PC networks.

The optimum benchmark measures PC performance with a set of tests that covers the wide variety of tasks performed in the workplace. The benchmark score evaluates overall performance, while subscores focus on the performance of such specific activities as:

• Web browsing
• Video conferencing​
• Time to starts apps
• Working with documents and spreadsheets

IT pros need PCs that perform multiple activities simultaneously through various open applications. Benchmarks help IT make sure their PCs or the PCs they intend to purchase can do the job.

Save time and money with Procyon

Procyon can help IT procurement teams optimize and maintain their fleet of organizational devices. When a company buys PCs in volume, the cost savings can be significant. For large PC environments, the addition of Testdriver Cloud Edition pushes the value even further by automating the testing of numerous PCs over your network or from the cloud.

IT professionals around the world choose Procyon benchmarks to measure, understand and manage computer hardware performance. Our trusted and widely used performance tests help IT professionals make better and more informed decisions.

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