Procyon — Professional Benchmark Suite

Procyon® benchmark suite

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Industry-standard benchmarks for professional users

Introducing Procyon—benchmarks for professional users. Procyon is a new benchmark suite from UL that we’re creating specifically for professional users in industry, enterprise, government, retail and press. Each Procyon benchmark will provide a familiar, consistent experience by sharing a common design and feature set. Flexible licensing means you can pick and choose the individual benchmarks that best meet your needs.

With more tests coming soon, the Procyon benchmark suite will soon offer a range of benchmarks and performance tests for professional users. Each benchmark is designed for a specific use case and uses real applications where possible. We're working closely with our industry partners to ensure that every Procyon benchmark is accurate, relevant and impartial.

Procyon AI Text Generation Benchmark

AI Text Generation Benchmark

The Procyon AI Image Generation Benchmark provides a consistent, accurate, and understandable workload for measuring the inference performance of powerful on-device AI accelerators such as high-end discrete GPUs. The AI Text Generation offers an easier and more compact way for standardized AI performance testing in a variety of local AI LLM use cases without downloading large AI models.

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Procyon One-Hour Battery Consumption Benchmark

One-Hour Battery Consumption Benchmark

Quickly benchmark and compare the impact software and system settings have on a PC or Mac’s battery consumption. The Procyon One-Hour Battery Life Consumption Benchmark offers a variety of real-world scenarios to help you understand how different device settings can affect power efficiency across a variety of typical real-world workloads.

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UL AI Image generation

AI Image Generation Benchmark

The Procyon AI Image Generation Benchmark provides a consistent, accurate, and understandable workload for measuring the inference performance of powerful on-device AI accelerators such as high-end discrete GPUs.

This benchmark contains two tests built with different versions of the Stable Diffusion models to cover a range of discrete GPU hardware and features our heaviest AI inference workload yet.

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UL AI Inference benchmark for Windows

AI Computer Vision Benchmark

The Procyon AI Computer Vision Benchmark gives insights into how AI inference engines perform on your hardware in a Windows environment, helping you decide which engines to support to achieve the best performance.

In the benchmark, common machine-vision tasks are executed using a range of popular, state-of-the-art neural networks. Measure AI accelerator performance benefits by comparing with the same operations run on the CPU or GPU

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Procyon Office Productivity Benchmark

Office Productivity Benchmark

The Procyon Office Productivity Benchmark uses Microsoft Office apps to measure PC and Apple Mac performance for office productivity work. The benchmark features relevant, real-world tasks using Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.

The benchmark combines the relevance of testing performance with the same apps that office workers use every day with the convenience of a standardized test that produces consistent, repeatable results every time.

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Procyon Battery Life Benchmark

Battery Life Benchmark

Benchmark and compare the practical, real-world battery life of Windows laptops, notebooks and tablets. Instead of producing a single number, the Procyon Battery Life Benchmark produces a battery life profile that provides a broad view of battery life across different scenarios including video playback, idle, and office productivity.

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Procyon Video Editing Benchmark

Video Editing Benchmark

Benchmark and compare the video-editing performance of Windows PCs aimed at creators, enthusiasts and creative professionals. This test is based on the typical workflow when creating content for online video sharing platforms.

The benchmark uses Adobe® Premiere® Pro to export video project files to common formats. Each video project includes various edits, adjustments and effects. The benchmark score is based on the time taken to export the videos.

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Procyon AI Inference Benchmark for Android

AI Inference Benchmark for Android

Benchmark and compare the AI inference performance of the latest Android smartphones. Measure the speed and accuracy of dedicated AI processing hardware in Android devices and verify NNAPI implementation quality.

The benchmark uses a range of popular, state-of-the-art neural network models such as MobileNet V3, Inception V4, SSDLite V3 and DeepLab V4. The models run on the device to perform common machine-vision tasks.

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Procyon Photo Editing Benchmark

Photo Editing Benchmark

Benchmark PC and Apple Mac performance against the demands of a typical photo-editing workflow. This benchmark measures the performance of Windows PCs designed for creators, enthusiasts and creative professionals.

The benchmark uses Adobe® Lightroom® to import, process and modify a selection of images. In the second part of the test, multiple edits and layer effects are applied to a photograph in Adobe® Photoshop®.

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Benchmarks for professional users

Industry

The Procyon benchmark suite offers a range of accurate, relevant and impartial benchmarks for hardware manufacturers and their suppliers. Each Procyon benchmark is designed for a specific use case and uses real applications where possible.

Enterprise

Procyon benchmarks help IT professionals make more informed decisions when purchasing and managing PCs and mobile devices. Each Procyon benchmark is designed for a specific use case and uses real applications where possible.

Retail

Our retail solutions help your customers confidently choose the best PCs and mobile devices for their needs. Procyon benchmarking data and insights complement your own sales material to improve sales performance online and in-store.

Government

UL Solutions supports qualifying public-sector organizations with complimentary benchmark licenses and advice for IT procurement processes. Procyon benchmarks are ideal for public-sector organizations seeking a vendor-neutral solution for IT procurement.

Press

Benchmarks developed by UL Solutions are used by hundreds of publications to test and review the latest PC hardware and mobile devices. We support our partners in the press with testing advice, technical support and complimentary Procyon benchmark licenses.

Procyon benchmark licensing

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Flexible licensing lets you pick and choose the individual benchmarks that best meet your needs. Buy just one benchmark or add more in any combination.

  • Flexible, annual licensing per benchmark.
  • Single-seat and site licensing options available.
  • Priority support via email and telephone.

Benchmark Development Program

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The Benchmark Development Program™ is an initiative from UL Solutions for building partnerships with technology companies. OEMs, ODMs, component manufacturers and their suppliers are invited to join us in developing new Procyon benchmarks. Please contact us for details.

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