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AMD has recently resigned from the BAPCo organization and withdrawn the support for SYSmark 2012. The latest developments on this topic can be found here:

• AMD’s Press Release
• AMD ‘s Blog Post

Coverage and Commentary

• http://www.facebook.com/AMD/posts/217965998226739
• Anandtech, Update: AMD Resigns from BAPCo Over SYSmark 2012 Concerns; NVIDIA & VIA Also Leave, BAPCo Responds
• Engadget, AMD resigns from BAPCo consortium, denounces SYSmark 2012 benchmark
• Maximum PC, AMD Disses SYSmark 2012 Benchmark, Resigns from BAPCo Organization
• Tech Report, AMD bails on BAPCo, perhaps with Via and Nvidia
• TG Daily, Analysis: The death of BapCo and SYSmark

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Resource Center 

Did you know that the foremost thing that modern organizations need from their computer systems is Productivity?

Did you know that organizations can overpay by as much as $196 more per system¹ for a non-AMD system with a comparable level of productivity?

This means there is a significant amount of budget waste for medium to large enterprises and public sector agencies that buy hundreds or thousands of systems at a time. That money could be invested in other areas or even saved.

When it comes to purchasing a PC, buyers must take into account a variety of factors including performance, investment protection, security, management, reliability, ease of deployment and price. While performance is a key factor it can be the most elusive to measure.

AMD recommends that customers buy the right system based on their real-world needs. A typical business user can be classified as Basic/Task user, Mainstream/Knowledge user and Power user based on their usage requirements.

You can find more details on the Price of Productivity and the recommended AMD systems for the 3 tiers of business users are in the Benchmark Brochure.

To help customers in their purchasing decisions, AMD has created a multi-tasking script to simulate real-world usage of common productivity applications. You can download the details of the mutli-tasking script and the testing instructions from the Test Yourself tab.

You can learn more about today’s benchmarks for the commercial environment in the AMD Benchmark Whitepaper.

Test Yourself 

AMD has created a multi-tasking script to simulate real-world usage of common productivity applications. You can test the script yourself to measure productivity on your system by simulating multi-tasking activities that are typically performed in a business environment. Here are the various components of the test package:

• 1) How to run the multi-task script execution guide: This guide helps you to run the multi-tasking script to simulate real-world usage of common office productivity applications.

• 2) Multi-tasking demo files: This zip package contains all the demo files that are part of the multi-tasking package. Follow the instructions in the guide on how to use these files for your test.

• 3) Multi-tasking script code: This is an automation script for Windows GUI used by the execution module (Item 4). Place this script in the same folder as the execution module. To know more about what is an automation script, click here. If you would like add or remove the commercial applications or change the order of execution, you can modify the script yourself and re-compile into an executable file.

• 4) Multi-tasking script execution module: This zip file contains the executable that runs the multi-tasking script. Unzip this file in the same folder as the other files and follow the instructions in the guide on how to run this application.

  Note: Please read the instructions in the execution guide carefully. Although the script is simple, attention to detail is necessary for accurate results.

To change the source code to create your own multi-tasking script with different set of applications, download and install the AutoIt compiler.

• Download now

Following installation, simply open the source code and build your custom script. If you have the compiler and source code loaded on the actual test system, you could select, “Run” and the code will compile and execute.

Note: The source code is simply providing a series of keystrokes and mouse clicks. If you do not have the correct version of all of the software installed or the applications pinned to the taskbar in the right locations, the script will not run as designed.

If you have any questions on the execution of the script, please email the AMD Real Benchmark Team at real.benchmark@amd.com.