Document: Webroot Secure Anywhere Cloud AntiVirus vs. Five Competitor Antivirus Products (August 2015)
Authors:
M. Baquiran, D. Wren
Company: PassMark Software
Date:
4 August 2015
File:
Webroot_SecureAnywhere_vs_antivirus_competitors_2015_Edition_1.docx
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TABLE OF CONTENTS......................................................................................................................................... 2
REVISION HISTORY............................................................................................................................................ 3
REFERENCES...................................................................................................................................................... 3
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ...................................................................................................................................... 4
OVERALL SCORE ................................................................................................................................................ 5
PRODUCTS AND VERSIONS ............................................................................................................................... 6PERFORMANCE METRICS SUMMARY ................................................................................................................ 7
TEST RESULTS ................................................................................................................................................... 9
BENCHMARK 1 – INSTALLATION TIME .......................................................................................................................... 9
BENCHMARK 2 – INSTALLATION SIZE ........................................................................................................................... 9
BENCHMARK 3 – BOOT TIME ................................................................................................................................... 10
BENCHMARK 4 – SCHEDULED SCAN TIME ................................................................................................................... 10
BENCHMARK 5 – MEMORY USAGE DURING INITIAL SCAN .............................................................................................. 11
BENCHMARK 6 – MEMORY USAGE DURING SYSTEM IDLE .............................................................................................. 11
BENCHMARK 7 – REGISTRY KEYS ADDED .................................................................................................................... 12
BENCHMARK 8 – BROWSE TIME ............................................................................................................................... 12
BENCHMARK 9 – FILE COPY, MOVE AND DELETE ......................................................................................................... 13
BENCHMARK 10 – FILE WRITE, OPEN AND CLOSE ........................................................................................................ 13
BENCHMARK 11 – FILE COMPRESSION AND DECOMPRESSION ........................................................................................ 14
BENCHMARK 12 – NETWORK THROUGHPUT ............................................................................................................... 14
CONTACT DETAILS .......................................................................................................................................... 15
APPENDIX 1 – TEST ENVIRONMENT ................................................................................................................ 16
APPENDIX 2 – METHODOLOGY DESCRIPTION ................................................................................................. 17

Performance Benchmark
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Edition 1

Revision History

Date

Initial version of this report, includes new results for six (6) antivirus products.

Ref #

1

PassMark Software

Document

What Really Slows Windows Down (URL)

Performance Benchmark
Windows 8.1

4 August 2015

AuthorDate

O. Warner,

2001-2015

The PC Spy

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PassMark Software® conducted objective performance testing on six (6) antivirus software products, on Windows
8.1 (64-bit) during June 2015. This report presents our results and findings as a result of performance benchmark
testing conducted for these consumer antivirus products.
The aim of this benchmark was to compare the performance impact of Webroot’s SecureAnywhere AntiVirus
product with five (5) competitor antivirus products. Testing was performed on all products using twelve (12)performance metrics. These performance metrics are as follows: Installation Time; Installation Size; Boot Time; Scheduled Scan Time; Memory Usage during Initial Scan; Memory Usage during System Idle;
 Registry Keys Added;
 Browse Time; File Copy, Move and Delete; File Write, Open and Close; File Compression and Decompression; and Network Throughput.

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PassMark Software assigned every product a score depending on its ranking in each metric compared to otherproducts in the same category. In the following table the highest possible score attainable has been normalized to100. This would be the score given if a product attained first place in all twelve (12) metrics. Antivirus products
have been ranked by their overall scores:
Product Name

Performance Benchmark
Windows 8.1

Overall Score

Webroot SecureAnywhere AntiVirus

90

Norton Antivirus

61

Kaspersky Anti-Virus

50

Trend Micro Titanium Antivirus Plus

44

McAfee AntiVirus Plus

44

Windows Defender

43

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For all products, we have tested the full retail release of the most current and publicly available version of eachantivirus product. The names and versions of products are given below:

Manufacturer

Release Year

Product Version

Date Tested

Trend Micro Titanium

2015

7.0.1151

June 2015

Webroot SecureAnywhere AntiVirus

2015

8.0.8.88

June 2015

Symantec Corp

Norton Antivirus 20152015

21.6.0.32

June 2015

Microsoft Corp

Windows Defender2015

4.7.205.0

June 2015

McAfee, Inc.

McAfee AntiVirus Plus 20152015

18.0.204

June 2015

Kaspersky Lab

Kaspersky Anti-Virus 20152015

15.0.2.361(a)June 2015

Trend Micro Inc.
Webroot Inc.

Performance Benchmark
Windows 8.1

Product Name

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We have selected a set of objective metrics which provide a comprehensive and realistic indication of the areas inwhich an antivirus may impact system performance for end users. Our metrics test the impact of the antivirus
software on common tasks that end-users would perform on a daily basis.
All of PassMark Software’s test methods can be replicated by third parties using the same environment to obtain
similar benchmark results. Detailed descriptions of the methodologies used in our tests are available as “Appendix
2 – Methodology Description” of this report.

The speed and ease of the installation process will strongly influence the user’s first impression of the antivirus
software. This test measures the minimum installation time required by the antivirus software to be fully
functional and ready for use by the end user. Lower installation times represent antivirus products which arequicker for a user to install.

In offering new features and functionality to users, antivirus software products tend to increase in size with eachnew release. Although new technologies push the size limits of hard drives each year, the growing disk spacerequirements of common applications and the increasing popularity of large media files (such as movies, photos
and music) ensure that a product's installation size will remain of interest to home users.
This metric aims to measure a product’s total installation size. This metric is defined as the total disk spaceconsumed by all new files added during a product's installation.

This metric measures the amount of time taken for the machine to boot into the operating system. Security
software is generally launched at Windows startup, adding an additional amount of time and delaying the startupof the operating system. Shorter boot times indicate that the application has had less impact on the normal
operation of the machine.

This metric measured the amount of time required to run a scheduled scan on the system. The scan is set for aparticular time via the client user interface.

This metric measures the amount of memory (RAM) used by the product during an antivirus scan. The total
memory usage was calculated by identifying all endpoint protection software processes and the amount ofmemory used by each process during an antivirus scan.

Performance Benchmark
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PassMark SoftwareThis metric measures the amount of memory (RAM) used by the product while the machine and antivirus softwareare in an idle state. The total memory usage was calculated by identifying all antivirus software processes and theamount of memory used by each process.
The amount of memory used while the machine is idle provides a good indication of the amount of system
resources being consumed by the antivirus software on a permanent basis. Better performing products occupy
less memory while the machine is idle.

A large registry increases a machine’s use of resources. This may negatively impact system performance, especiallyon much older machines. This test measures the amount of keys and values added to registry, after rebooting thetest machines, following a successful product installation. Lower numbers mean that a product has added fewer
keys during installation and had less impact on the registry.

It is common behavior for security products to scan data for malware as it is downloaded from the internet or
intranet. This behavior may negatively impact browsing speed as products scan web content for malware. This
metric measures the time taken to browse a set of popular internet sites to consecutively load from a local server
in a user’s browser window.

This metric measures the amount of time taken to move, copy and delete a sample set of files. The sample file set
contains several types of file formats that a Windows user would encounter in daily use. These formats include
documents (e.g. Microsoft Office documents, Adobe PDF, Zip files, etc), media formats (e.g. images, movies andmusic) and system files (e.g. executables, libraries, etc).

This benchmark was derived from Oli Warner’s File I/O test at http://www.thepcspy.com (please see Reference#1: What Really Slows Windows Down). This metric measures the amount of time taken to write a file, then open
and close that file.

This metric measures the amount of time taken to compress and decompress different types of files. Files formats
used in this test included documents, movies and images.

The metric measures the amount of time taken to download a variety of files from a local server using theHyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP), which is the main protocol used on the web for browsing, linking and datatransfer. Files used in this test include file formats that users would typically download from the web, such asimages, archives, music files and movie files.

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In the following charts, we have highlighted the results we obtained for Webroot SecureAnywhere AntiVirus ingreen. The competitor average has also been highlighted in blue for ease of comparison.

The following chart compares the minimum installation time it takes for Antivirus products to be fully functionaland ready for use by the end user. Products with lower installation times are considered better performing
products in this category.*

Webroot SecureAnywhere

5

Norton Antivirus

104

Average224

Trend Micro Titanium Antivirus

228

McAfee Antivirus Plus

304

Kaspersky Anti-Virus

479

0s

100 s

200 s

300 s

400 s

500 s

600 s

*Windows Defender was omitted from this metric since it comes preinstalled with Windows.

The following chart compares the total size of files added during the installation of Antivirus products. Productswith lower installation sizes are considered better performing products in this category. *Webroot SecureAnywhere

9

McAfee Antivirus Plus

379

Average

380

Kaspersky Anti-Virus

461

Norton Antivirus

522

Trend Micro Titanium Antivirus

528

0 MB

100 MB

200 MB

300 MB

400 MB500 MB

600 MB*Windows Defender was omitted from this metric since it comes preinstalled with Windows.

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The following chart compares the average time taken for the system to boot (from a sample of five boots) for each
Antivirus product tested. Products with lower boot times are considered better performing products in thiscategory.

Webroot SecureAnywhere

10.2

Windows Defender

11.2

Kaspersky Anti-Virus

13.0

Average

19.3

McAfee Antivirus Plus

23.8

Norton Antivirus

26.8

Trend Micro Titanium Antivirus

30.7

0s

5s

10 s

15 s

20 s

25 s

30 s

35 s

The following chart compares the average time taken to run a system scan at a specified time Products with lower
scan times are considered better performing products in this category.*

Trend Micro Titanium Antivirus

21

Webroot SecureAnywhere89

Kaspersky Anti-Virus

114

Norton Antivirus

1087

Average

1394

McAfee Antivirus Plus

5660

0s

1,000 s2,000 s3,000 s4,000 s5,000 s6,000 s*Windows Defender was omitted from this metric since it did not have the functionality to set a scheduled scan.

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The following chart compares the average amount of RAM in use by an Antivirus product during an initial scan on
the main drive. This average is taken from a sample of ten memory snapshots taken at five second intervals duringa scan of sample files which have not been previously scanned by the software. Products that use less memory
during a scan are considered better performing products in this category.

Webroot SecureAnywhere

14.2

Windows Defender

106.7

Trend Micro Titanium Antivirus

127.0

Norton Antivirus

152.7

Kaspersky Anti-Virus

183.9

Average

194.4

McAfee Antivirus Plus

581.7

0 MB

100 MB 200 MB 300 MB 400 MB 500 MB 600 MB 700 MB

The following chart compares the average amount of RAM in use by an Antivirus product during a period of system
idle. This average is taken from a sample of ten memory snapshots taken at roughly 60 seconds apart after reboot.
Products with lower idle RAM usage are considered better performing products in this category.

Webroot SecureAnywhere

5.0

Kaspersky Anti-Virus

48.7

Norton Antivirus

57.4

Windows Defender

61.8

Average84.7

Trend Micro Titanium Antivirus

107.1

McAfee Antivirus Plus
0 MB

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228.0

50 MB

100 MB

150 MB

200 MB250 MB

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The following chart compares the amount of Registry Keys created during product installation for each Antivirus
product tested. Products with lower key counts are considered better performing products in this category. *Webroot SecureAnywhere

1630

Norton Antivirus

3764

Trend Micro Titanium Antivirus

4419

Kaspersky Anti-Virus

5009

Average

20667

McAfee Antivirus Plus

88515

0

10000 20000 30000 40000 50000 60000 70000 80000 90000 100000*Windows Defender was omitted from this metric since it comes preinstalled with Windows.

The following chart compares the average time taken for Internet Explorer to successively load a set of popular
websites through the local area network from a local server machine. Products with lower browse times are
considered better performing products in this category.*

McAfee Antivirus Plus

33.4

Norton Antivirus

36.6

Webroot SecureAnywhere

37.2

Kaspersky Anti-Virus

42.7

Average

43.1

Windows Defender

49.0

Trend Micro Titanium Antivirus

59.5

0s

10 s

20 s

30 s

40 s

50 s

60 s

70 s

*For the test script to run on Webroot SecureAnywhere AntiVirus, the default settings needed to be changed. This involved changing Internet
explorer to “Allow” under the Application Protection settings window.

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Windows 8.1

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The following chart compares the average time taken to copy, move and delete several sets of sample files foreach Antivirus product tested. Products with lower times are considered better performing products in thiscategory.

Webroot SecureAnywhere

8.3

Trend Micro Titanium Antivirus

9.1

Norton Antivirus

9.3

McAfee Antivirus Plus

10.2

Average

11.5

Windows Defender

15.5

Kaspersky Anti-Virus

16.7

0s

2s

4s

6s

8s

10 s

12 s

14 s

16 s

18 s

The following chart compares the average time it takes for a file to be written to the hard drive then opened andclosed 180,000 times, for each Antivirus product tested. Products with lower times are considered better
performing products in this category.

Webroot SecureAnywhere

19.9

Kaspersky Anti-Virus

23.2

Norton Antivirus

26.7

Trend Micro Titanium Antivirus

29.6

McAfee Antivirus Plus

34.2

Average

73.1

Windows Defender

304.9

0s

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50 s

100 s

150 s

200 s

250 s

300 s

350 s

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The following chart compares the average time it takes for sample files to be compressed and decompressed foreach Antivirus product tested. Products with lower times are considered better performing products in thiscategory.

Norton Antivirus

46.8

Webroot SecureAnywhere

47.0

Kaspersky Anti-Virus

47.4

McAfee Antivirus Plus

48.3

Average48.4

Trend Micro Titanium Antivirus

50.1

Windows Defender

50.9

44 s

45 s

46 s

47 s

48 s

49 s

50 s

51 s

52 s

The following chart compares the average time to download a sample set of common file types for each Antivirus
product tested. Products with lower times are considered better performing products in this category.

Webroot SecureAnywhere

6.2

Windows Defender

6.3

McAfee Antivirus Plus

8.3

Norton Antivirus

8.6

Average

9.4

Kaspersky Anti-Virus

13.1

Trend Micro Titanium Antivirus

13.7

0s

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2s

4s

6s

8s

10 s

12 s

14 s

16 s

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PassMark SoftwareThis report only covers versions of products that were available at the time of testing. The tested versions are as
noted in the “Products and Versions” section of this report. The products we have tested are not an exhaustive
list of all products available in these very competitive product categories.

While every effort has been made to ensure that the information presented in this report is accurate, PassMark
Software Pty Ltd assumes no responsibility for errors, omissions, or out-of-date information and shall not be liable
in any manner whatsoever for direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, or punitive damages resulting from theavailability of, use of, access of, or inability to use this information.

Webroot Inc. funded the production of this report. The list of products tested and the metrics included in thereport were selected by Webroot.

All trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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For our testing, PassMark Software used a test environment running Windows 8.1 (64-bit) with the following
hardware specifications:

Model:

HP Pavilion P6-2300A

CPU:Intel Core i5 3330

Video Card:

1GB nVIDIA GeForce GT 620M

Motherboard:

Foxconn 2ABF 3.10

RAM:

6GB DDR3 RAM

HDD:

Hitachi HDS721010CLA630 931.51GBnd

2 Drive:

Samsung 1000GB 7200RPM Model: HD103UJ

Network:

Gigabit (1GB/s) switch

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As with testing on Windows Vista, Norton Ghost was used to create a “clean” baseline image prior to testing. Our
aim is to create a baseline image with the smallest possible footprint and reduce the possibility of variation causedby external operating system factors.
The baseline image was restored prior to testing of each different product. This process ensures that we install
and test all products on the same, “clean” machine.
The steps taken to create the base Windows 8.1 image are as follows:1.

Installation and activation of Windows 8.1.

2.

Disabled Automatic Updates.

3.

Changed User Account Control settings to “Never Notify”.

4.

Disable Windows Defender automatic scans to avoid unexpected background activity.

5.

Disable the Windows firewall to avoid interference with security software.

6.

Disabled Superfetch to ensure consistent results.

7.

Installed HTTP Watch for Browse Time testing.

8.

Installed Windows Performance Toolkit x64 for Boot Time testing.

9.

Installed Active Perl for interpretation of some test scripts.

10.

Install OSForensics for testing (Installation Size and Registry Key Count tests) purposes.

11.

Disabled updates, accelerators and compatibility view updates in Internet Explorer 11.

12.

Install important Windows updates.

13.

Created a baseline image using Norton Ghost.

This test measures the minimum Installation Time a product requires to be fully functional and ready for use by
the end user. Installation time can usually be divided in three major phases: The Extraction and Setup phase consists of file extraction, the EULA prompt, product activation and user
configurable options for installation.
 The File Copy phase occurs when the product is being installed; usually this phase is indicated by a progressbar.
 The Post-Installation phase is any part of the installation that occurs after the File Copy phase. This phasevaries widely between products; the time recorded in this phase may include a required reboot to finalize theinstallation or include the time the program takes to become idle in the system tray.
To reduce the impact of disk drive variables, each product was copied to the Desktop before initializing installation.
Each step of the installation process was manually timed with a stopwatch and recorded in as much detail as
possible. Where input was required by the end user, the stopwatch was paused and the input noted in the raw
results in parenthesis after the phase description.

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Where possible, all requests by products to pre-scan or post-install scan were declined or skipped. Where it was
not possible to skip a scan, the time to scan was included as part of the installation time. Where an optional
component of the installation formed a reasonable part of the functionality of the software, it was also installed(e.g. website link checking software as part of an Antivirus Product).
Installation time includes the time taken by the product installer to download components required in the
installation. This may include mandatory updates or the delivery of the application itself from a download
manager. We have noted in our results where a product has downloaded components for product installation.
We have excluded product activation times due to network variability in contacting vendor servers or time takenin account creation.

A product's Installation Size was previously defined as the difference between the initial snapshot of the Disk Space(C: drive) before installation and the subsequent snapshot taken after the product is installed on the system.
Although this is a widely used methodology, we noticed that the results it yielded were not always reproducible
in Vista due to random OS operations that may take place between the two snapshots. We improved theInstallation Size methodology by removing as many Operating System and disk space variables as possible.
Using PassMark’s OSForensics we created initial and post-installation disk signatures for each product. These disk
signatures recorded the amount of files and directories, and complete details of all files on that drive (including
file name, file size, checksum, etc) at the time the signature was taken.
The initial disk signature was taken immediately prior to installation of the product. A subsequent disk signature
was taken immediately following a system reboot after product installation. Using OSForensics, we compared thetwo signatures and calculated the total disk space consumed by files that were new, modified, and deleted during
product installation. Our result for this metric reflects the total size of all newly added files during installation.
The scope of this metric includes only an ‘out of the box’ installation size for each product. Our result does notcover the size of files downloaded by the product after its installation (such as engine or signature updates), or
any files created by system restore points, pre-fetch files and other temporary files.

PassMark Software uses tools available from the Windows Performance Toolkit (as part of the Microsoft Windows
8 ADK obtainable from the Microsoft Website).
The Boot Performance (fast startup) test is ran as an individual assessment via the Windows Assessment Console.
The network connection is disabled and the login password is removed to avoid interruption to the test. The final
result is taken as the total boot duration excluding BIOS load time.

This test measures the average time required by the software to complete a scheduled scan on the system. The
default scheduled scan settings are kept (except for the start time) and the scan is scheduled to run at the next
convenient time. The scan is run three times with a reboot between each run to remove potential caching effects.
The result is calculated as a weighted average with a 50% weighting on the initial scan and a 50% weighting on the

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subsequent scans. Where this option is not available or the scheduling appears to be unreliable, the product isomitted from the metric, and given the lowest score for this metric.

The PerfLog++ utility was used to record memory usage on the system while a malware scan is in progress. Pleaserefer to the metric “Memory usage – System Idle” above for a description of the PerfLog++utility and an
explanation of the method by which memory usage is calculated.
As some products cache scan locations, we take reasonable precautions to ensure that the antivirus software does
not scan the C:\ drive at any point before conducting this test. A manual scan on the C:\ drive is initiated at thesame time as the PerfLog++ utility, enabling PerfLog++ to record memory usage for 60 seconds at five second
intervals.

The Perflog++ utility was used to record process memory usage on the system at boot, and then every minute foranother fifteen minutes after. This was done only once per product and resulted in a total of 15 samples. The firstsample taken at boot is discarded.
The PerfLog++ utility records memory usage of all processes, not just those of the anti-malware product. As aresult of this, an anti-malware product’s processes needed to be isolated from all other running system processes.
To isolate relevant process, we used a program called Process Explorer which was run immediately upon thecompletion of memory usage logging by PerfLog++. Process Explorer is a Microsoft Windows Sysinternals softwaretool which shows a list of all DLL processes currently loaded on the system.

This test measures the amount of keys and values added to registry, after rebooting the test machine following a
successful product installation. The test was conducted using PassMark’s OSForensics, to count the number ofkeys, errors and values that were added under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and HKEY_USERS. The Create Signaturefeature is used to take a before and after signature of these folders, and the signatures are then compared so thatthe new keys can be identified.

We used a script in conjunction with HTTPWatch (Basic Edition, version 9.3) to record the amount of time it takes
for a set of 106 ‘popular’ websites to load consecutively from a local server. This script feeds a list of URLs into
HTTPWatch, which instructs the browser to load pages in sequence and monitors the amount of time it takes forthe browser to load all items on one page.
For this test, we have used Internet Explorer 11 (11.0.9600.17801) as our browser.
The set of websites used in this test include front pages of high traffic pages. This includes shopping, social, news,
finance and reference websites.
The Browse Time test is executed five times and our final result is an average of these five samples. The local serveris restarted between different products and one initial ‘test’ run is conducted prior to testing to install Adobe Flash
Player, an add-on which is used by many popular websites.
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We used a single script in testing Benchmarks 9-12. The script consecutively executes tests for Benchmarks 9-12.
The script times each phase in these benchmarks using CommandTimer.exe and appends results to a log file.

This test measures the amount of time required for the system to copy, move and delete samples of files in various
file formats. This sample was made up of 812 files over 760,867,636 bytes and can be categorized as documents[26% of total], media files [54% of total] and PE files (i.e. System Files) [20% of total].
The breakdown of the main file types, file numbers and total sizes of the files in the sample set is shown in thefollowing table:

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File format

NumberSize (bytes)

DOC

830,450,176

DOCX

4

13,522,409

PPT

3

5,769,216

PPTX

3

4,146,421

XLS

4

2,660,352

XLSX

4

1,426,054

PDF

73

136,298,049

ZIP

4

6,295,987

7Z

1

92,238JPG

351

31,375,259

GIF

6148,182MOV

7

57,360,371

RM

1

5,658,646

AVI

8

78,703,408

WMV

5

46,126,167

MP3

28

191,580,387

EXE

19

2,952,914

DLL

104

29,261,568

AX

118,432CPL

22,109,440

CPX

2

4,384

DRV

10

154,864

ICO

1

107,620MSC

141,587

NT

1

1,688

ROM

2

36,611SCR

22,250,240

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SYS

1

37,528,093

TLB

3

135,580

TSK

1

1,152

UCE

1

22,984EXE

192,952,914

DLL

104

29,261,568

AX

118,432CPL

22,109,440

CPX

2

4,384

DRV

10

154,864

ICO

1

107,620MSC

141,587

NT

1

1,688

ROM

2

36,611SCR

22,250,240

SYS

1

37,528,093

TLB

3

135,580

TSK

1

1,152

UCE

1

22,984

Total

812

760,867,636

This test was conducted five times to obtain the average time to copy, move and delete the sample files, with thetest machine rebooted between each sample to remove potential caching effects.

This benchmark was derived from Oli Warner’s File I/O test at http://www.thepcspy.com (please see Reference#1: What Really Slows Windows Down).
For this test, we developed OpenClose.exe, an application that looped writing a small file to disk, then opening
and closing that file. CommandTimer.exe was used to time how long the process took to complete 180,000 cycles.
This test was conducted five times to obtain the average file writing, opening and closing speed, with the test
machine rebooted between each sample to remove potential caching effects.

This test measured the amount of time required to compress and decompress a sample set of files. For this test,
we used a subset of the media and documents files used in the File Copy, Move and Delete benchmark.
CommandTimer.exe recorded the amount of time required for 7zip.exe to compress the files into a *.zip andsubsequently decompress the created *.zip file.

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PassMark SoftwareThis subset comprised 1,218 files over 783 MB. The breakdown of the file types, file numbers and total sizes of thefiles in the sample set is shown in the following table:
File Type

File Number

Total Size

.xls

13

9.23 MB.xlsx

93.51 MB.ppt

97.37 MB.pptx

1117.4 MB.doc

17

35.9 MB.docx

1924.5 MB.gif

177

1.10 MB.jpg

737

66.2 MB.png

15948.9 MB.mov7

54.7 MB.rm

1

5.39 MB.avi

46

459 MB.wma

1148.6 MB.avi

46

459 MB.wma

1148.6 MB

Total

1218

783 MB

This test was conducted five times to obtain the average file compression and decompression speed, with the test
machine rebooted between each sample to remove potential caching effects.

This benchmark measured how much time was required to download a sample set of binary files of various sizes
and types over a 100MB/s network connection. The files were hosted on a server machine running Windows Server
2008 and IIS 7. CommandTimer.exe was used in conjunction with GNU Wget (version 1.10.1) to time and conduct
the download test.
The complete sample set of files was made up of 553,638,694 bytes over 484 files and two file type categories:
media files [74% of total] and documents [26% of total]. The breakdown of the file types, file numbers and total
sizes of the files in the sample set is shown in the following table:

Performance Benchmark
Windows 8.1

File format

NumberSize (bytes)

JPEG

343

30,668,312

GIF

9360,349PNG

5494,780MOV

757,360,371

RM

1

5,658,646

AVI

8

78,703,408

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WMV

546,126,167

MP3

28

191,580,387

PDF

73

136,298,049

ZIP

4

6,295,987

7Z

1

92,238

Total

484

553,638,694

This test was conducted five times to obtain the average time to download this sample of files, with the test
machine rebooted between each sample to remove potential caching effects.

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