This year's PCMark 10 has been designed with focus on improving performance in Windows 10. The release also cuts down the time needed to run a complete benchmark by half when compared to PCMark 8, and removes the need to choose between ?Conventional? or ?Accelerated? mode to enable OpenCL support.
One of the new workloads is called ?App Start-Up,? which measures the time taken to open various applications and is relevant for assessing storage performance. A second test called ?Rendering and Visualization? uses OpenGL to simulate professional graphics and give an estimate on overall processor scaling performance. The third new workload is an update to the previous ?Mainstream Gaming? workload, now called ?Gaming,? that uses a version of 3DMark Fire Strike to more closely resemble a modern gaming scenario. The combined test brings in an additional workload that puts more load on the CPU and GPU.