Scoring Methodology

SYSmark 2004 SE is made up of 2 scenarios consisting of the following applications:

Internet Content Creation

• Adobe® After Effects® 5.5
• Abode® Photoshop® 7.01
• Adobe® Premiere® 6.5
• Discreet® 3ds max 5.1
• Macromedia® Dreamweaver® MX
• Macromedia® Flash MX
• Microsoft® Windows Media Encoder 9 Series
• Network Associates® McAfee® VirusScan® 7.0
• WinZip Computing WinZip® 8.1

Office Productivity

• Adobe® Acrobat® 5.0.5
• Microsoft® Access 2002
• Microsoft® Excel 2002
• Microsoft® Internet Explorer 6
• Microsoft® Outlook® 2002
• Microsoft® PowerPoint® 2002
• Microsoft® Word 2002
• Network Associates® McAfee® VirusScan® 7.0
• ScanSoft® Dragon NaturallySpeaking® 6 Preferred
• WinZip Computing WinZip® 8.1

For a description of these scenarios see Scenario Description. Each of these scenarios consists of operations that are categorized into 3 groups each. They are:

Internet Content Creation

3D Creation

2D Creation

Web Publishing

Office Productivity

Communication

Document Creation

Data Analysis

Group Rating

Each of the groups above have a rating that is calculated by taking the sum of duration of operations that constitute that group and then comparing it with the equivalent sum of the duration of operations on the Calibration System. The rating is calculated by dividing the sum of the duration of operations in the group on the calibration system by the sum of the duration of operations on the test system and multiplying by 100. The result is then rounded to the nearest integer. At the end of a benchmark run, the Group rating for each of the 6 groups is calculated.

Scenario Rating

The Scenario rating (for each of the 2 scenarios) is calculated by taking the Geometric mean of the Group ratings of all the three groups within each scenario. The scenario rating is rounded to the nearest integer.

SYSmark 2004 SE Overall Rating

The SYSmark 2004 SE overall rating is calculated by taking the geometric mean of the two Scenario ratings. The SYSmark 2004 SE rating is rounded to the nearest integer. Here is an example of an official report showing the calculated ratings.

Official Run with multiple iterations

An official run of SYSmark 2004 SE allows up to three iterations of the benchmark. In this case, the scoring methodology involves a few extra steps. The Group Rating is calculated as above for each group in each iteration. An average Group Rating is then obtained by taking the arithmetic mean of the group ratings in each iteration. The calculation of the Scenario rating is obtained as above using the average group rating. The overall SYSmark 2004 SE rating is then obtained from the scenario rating as above.