BAPCo, the Business Application Performance Corporation, is an industry consortium including Microsoft, Intel, AMD, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, NVIDIA, ATI, and Apple Computer, and is a group dedicated to developing benchmarks for Windows personal computers. Some BAPCo benchmarks have been developed by Finnish software company Futuremark. Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT, SEHK: 4338) is an international computer technology corporation with global annual sales of over 41. ... Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC, SEHK: 4335), founded in 1968 as Integrated Electronics Corporation, is a U.S.-based multinational corporation that is best known for designing and manufacturing microprocessors and specialized integrated circuits. ... Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. ... Dell Inc. ... The Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE: HPQ), commonly known as HP, is a very large, global company headquartered in Palo Alto, California, United States. ... NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ: NVDA) is a major supplier of graphics processors (graphics processing units, GPUs), graphics cards, and media and communications devices for PCs and game consoles such as the original Xbox and the new upcoming next generation Playstation 3. ... ATI Technologies Inc. ... Apple Computer, Inc. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards and conform with our NPOV policy, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

BAPCo has developed standard benchmarks such as WEBmark, SYSmark 2004SE, and MobileMark, as well as standardized protocols for measuring application performance, for example 3D Studio Max, Microsoft Office, and Adobe Creative Suite.

See also

• Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation
• Benchmark (computing)
• Futuremark

The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) is a non-profit organization that aims to produce fair, impartial and meaningful benchmarks for computers. ... In computing, a benchmark is the result of running a computer program, or a set of programs, in order to assess the relative performance of an object, by running a number of standard tests and trials against it. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards and conform with our NPOV policy, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

External links

• BAPCo.com