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WinBench99 +MaxBoost

Winbench99 even though it may be outdated is still probably the best tool to look at the effect of Maxboost for the simple reason that it categorizes the different applications whereas e.g. the traces we recorded for Content-Creation Winstone and similar are only giving one composite score of average I/Os per second. In general one can expect a solid boost in performance across all applications, however, Overall Business performance will be limited mostly by I/O switching, likewise, AVS Express with a lot of "streaming" data transfers will be somewhat optimized but not show the ultimate performance increase. The kind of environment where one can expect the highest gain is anything that will resort to swap file accesses with data chunks that are smaller than 32 MB. This will happen most likely in software that is not fully integrated into the Windows environment like e.g. Adobe Photoshop or Bentley MicroStation (CAD) or e.g. IC-Edit, which is using a tiling approach to handle large layout data.

WinBench99 2.0 Disk WinMark scores: MaxBoost enabled: red; MaxBoost disabled: gray. The FrontPage98 scores are scaled back by a factor of 10 to better integrate with the rest of the graph. MaxBoost definitely boosts the performance, the highest increases are in MicroStation and Photoshop, which pretty much what we expected. Other applications still gained but whenever data are small enough to fit into the drive cache, MaxBoost will mostly optimize the "host transfer rate"

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