Benchmark Development Program Overview

Introduction

Futuremark is an industry-leading provider of benchmark software and services. Our mission is: to increase growth within the IT industry by showing the performance and usefulness of new PC, mobile and digital home technology with unique products and services while simultaneously taking into account end user satisfaction.

Benchmark Values

The benefit of objective PC and handheld benchmarks reaches across the spectrum of consumers, media reviewers, system integrators, service providers, IP developers and licensees, and hardware, semiconductor and component manufacturers. Consistent, unbiased performance results at each segment enable a benchmark to fill everyone’s needs.

Futuremark Corporation has a solid track record in benchmark development. Our experience enables us to generate relevant workloads and measurement targets. Futuremark’s easy to use benchmarks are intelligently designed to evaluate both hardware and platform technology initiatives prior to and during their emergence in the market. Futuremark Certified performance results ensure that hardware has been tested under rigorous controls and that performance claims are consistent and repeatable under the same conditions.

BDP partnerships

Benchmark Development Program (BDP) is Futuremark's way of building partnerships with leading hardware and technology manufacturers in order to design unbiased high quality benchmark software. Futuremark provides BDP Members with specifications and pre-production versions of benchmarks and, in turn, evaluates the feedback provided by the Members. This process is the foundation of the BDP.

Current BDPs

Currently, we have established BDPs in the following areas:

• Windows PC
   3DMark
   PCMark
• Handhelds
   3DMarkMobile (OpenGL ES)
   SPMarkJava (MIDP2.0, M3G)
   SPMark (Symbian)

Futuremark BDP members

The following distinguished companies are members of one or more Futuremark BDP. See each individual BDP section for listing of member companies to that exact benchmark.

View Handheld Certified Results