In an attempt to model real world demands and performance, Science Mark 2.0 includes a high-performance benchmarks that realistically stress system performance without architectural bias.  Science Mark 2.0 is comprised of 7 benchmarks, each of which measures a different aspect of real world system performance.

Pov-Ray s a free tool for creating stunning three-dimensional graphics. It is available in official versions for Windows, Mac OS/Mac OS X and i86 Linux. The source code is available for those wanting to do their own ports. We used Pov-Ray 3.7beta15 for all tests, since it supports Dual Core CPUs. In this test we chose the build-in benchmark as it was suggested from the developers.

The Pov-Ray benchmark was dominated from Gigabyte, while the ScienceMark Benchmark from Biostar.

- x264 Benchmark

x264 Benchmark utilizes the next generation of Video Encoding benchmarks with support for x264 codec that is considered to be one of the most demanding for Video applications. Simply put, this test measures how fast your machine can encode a short, DVD quality MPEG-2 video clip into a high-quality x264 video clip. The author believes that "...it's ideal for a benchmark because the application (x264.exe) reports fairly accurate compression results (in frames per second) for each pass of the video encoding process, and it uses multi-core processors very efficiently..."

The benchmark procedure is very simple, you just run a batch file that encodes the same file five times. The software provided two different results for each of the encoding passes. Below you can see the an average number of the results for both passes.

The x264 benchmark really tests the CPU/memory combination. It seems that at the first FPS1 test, the Biostar was faster, however at FPS2 test, the Gigabyte took the first place.