WinSAT + performance measurements

23/04/2025 admin News, Windows

Assessment	Description

winsat dwm      Assesses the ability of a system to display the Aero desktop effects.

winsat d3d      Assesses the ability of a system to run Direct 3D applications, such as games.

winsat mem      Assesses system memory bandwidth by simulating large memory to memory buffer copies.

winsat disk     Assesses the performance of disk drives.

winsat cpu      Assesses the performance of the CPU(s).

winsat media    Assesses the performance of video encoding and decoding (playback) using the Direct Show framework.

winsat mfmedia  Assesses the performance of video decoding (playback) using the Media Foundation framework.

winsat features Enumerates relevant system information.

winsat formal   Runs a set of pre-defined assessments and saves the data in an XML file in %systemroot%\performance\winsat\datastore.

Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/windows-server-2012-r2-and-2012/cc770542(v=ws.11)

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