Bottom Line PCM8 advanced is polished and the Steam sale is a steel. The industry standard PC performance benchmark for Windows 10. With a range of performance tests, custom run options, Battery Life Profile, and new Storage benchmarks, PCMark 10 is the complete PC benchmark for the modern office. I suppose as an individual you really don't need the paid version however I prefer to support there fine efforts and frankly I don't know what the free version does or does not have. PCMark 10 features a comprehensive set of tests that cover the wide variety of tasks performed in the modern workplace. It stops short of given you tips and tweaks but definitely points you in the right direction. The ability to run individual test affords us an opportunity to fine tune and tweak our systems and the online interface even provides a log to assist us with the process. Of course I'm just beginning to use it so I have a lot to explore/learn but this actually appears to be a useful benchmark. These benchmarks should not be used to test modern hardware Benchmarks have a natural lifespan that ends when they no longer provide meaningful results on modern. PCM8 now gives the scores for each specific benchmark. Download legacy versions of 3DMark, PCMark, and other Futuremark benchmarks for free. New features, including tests for battery life and tests using select applications from Adobe and Microsoft.

I paid 25 bucks for PCM7 and 9 for PCM8 and I feel ripped off for 7. Of course it's based on testing Windows 8 vs 7 but beyond that there is a ton more detail to the results, more test, which are a bit more real world and the granularity of the of the UI in app and on line is way more refined.

Yes I like PCmark 8 quit a bit more than 7.

Pcmark 10 hangs installing