Valve wants to help you determine whether your PC is ready for virtual reality. Valve has launched the SteamVR Performance Test, a two-minute evaluation that uses Valve's Aperture Robot Repair VR demo ...

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Users don't like slow applications. And if an app stalls intermittently or consistently, users are likely to avoid it in the future. When testers create performance tests, their main objective is to ...

Soak testing is a type of performance testing that gauges how an application handles a growing number of users or increasingly taxing tasks over an extended period of time. Soak testing is both a type ...

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A customer wants a new server to dedicate to its latest high-transaction Web app. Traffic on the current site is heavy and is expected to double in a year. What's needed is an accurate and reliable ...

Whenever you read a PC review or a component review, benchmark results typically accompany it. Such results are most often in the form of numbers, such as a score or a frames-per-second total.

I posted a blog last week that illustrated how time between each benchmark test can affect performance results. To show what we wanted, we used a small portion of a new benchmark that is built into ...