The PassMark rating value is calculated using a series of weighted averages where some components are considered to be more important than others. For example the CPU performance has an larger overall importance than the CD result. On a typical desktop computer the overall result will be weighted as follows.
(Note: These numbers merely represent the intent of the algorithm, the exact algorithm is a bit more complicated than described here and as such you can't use these numbers to calculate out the overall score yourself)
These weighting's are based on the "average" computer usage and are intended to give the user of PerformanceTest an overall indication about how this computer will perform in general use. Needless to say, this weighted average will be inappropriate for some users. Game players will think 3D is more important, while Network admin types will be looking for disk speed. Feel free to roll your own ratings based on the individual test results
The score is also calculated in such a way that a single extremely high value cannot significantly improve the final score. All components in a system must be performing well in order for the final score to be high. To do this each sub section score has the following formula applied to it.weighting (eg. 0.29 for the CPU) / sub-score.Once each sub-score has this formula applied to it they are then added together. This produces a number that gets smaller the faster the system is. Finally, in order to get a number that gets bigger as the system improves the number is inverted again (ie. 1 / sub-score-total).
Your Phenom II x4 965 is getting a bit old now, but still OK for most games.
| Test Suite | Weighting |
| Disk | 21% |
| CD / DVD | 5% |
| Memory | 19% |
| 3D Graphics | 12% |
| 2D Graphics | 14% |
| CPU | 29% |
| Total | 100% |
(Note: These numbers merely represent the intent of the algorithm, the exact algorithm is a bit more complicated than described here and as such you can't use these numbers to calculate out the overall score yourself)
These weighting's are based on the "average" computer usage and are intended to give the user of PerformanceTest an overall indication about how this computer will perform in general use. Needless to say, this weighted average will be inappropriate for some users. Game players will think 3D is more important, while Network admin types will be looking for disk speed. Feel free to roll your own ratings based on the individual test results
The score is also calculated in such a way that a single extremely high value cannot significantly improve the final score. All components in a system must be performing well in order for the final score to be high. To do this each sub section score has the following formula applied to it.weighting (eg. 0.29 for the CPU) / sub-score.Once each sub-score has this formula applied to it they are then added together. This produces a number that gets smaller the faster the system is. Finally, in order to get a number that gets bigger as the system improves the number is inverted again (ie. 1 / sub-score-total).
Your Phenom II x4 965 is getting a bit old now, but still OK for most games.
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