BAPCo, Business Applications Performance Corporation, is a non-profit consortium (founded in 1991) with a charter to develop and distribute a set of objective performance benchmarks for personal computers based on popular software applications and operating systems.
BAPCo's current membership includes Acer, ARCIntuition, ASUS, Compal, Dell, Dynabook, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi, Intel, Inventec, LC Future Center, Lenovo, Pegatron, Quanta Computer, Samsung, Western Digital, Wistron, and others.
Products
Benchmarks from BAPCo include:
* APPmark® 2018
* MobileMark® 2018
* SYSmark® 2018
* SYSmark 25
*CrossMark
Controversy
BAPco has suffered criticism for bias in its benchmarking products. It was found in 2002 that Intel was the sole contributor to a series of CPU tests, tests which heavily favoured their own CPU's vs competitors, where the tests of the year before performed significantly better on non-Intel parts. Intel was investigated by the FTC, and eventually fined for this action, among other anti-competitive measures.
See also
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Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation
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Benchmark (computing)
In computing, a benchmark is the act of running a computer program, a set of programs, or other operations, in order to assess the relative performance of an object, normally by running a number of standard tests and trials against it.
The t ...
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Futuremark
Futuremark Oy was a Finnish software development company that produced computer benchmark applications for home, business, and press use. Futuremark was acquired by UL on 31 October 2014, and was formally merged into the company on 23 April 2 ...
References
External links
BAPCo.comBAPCo - Results Dashboard
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Technology consortia
Computer performance
Evaluation of computers