BAPCo consortium


BAPCo, Business Applications Performance Corporation, is a non-profit consortium with a charter to develop and distribute a set of objective performance benchmarks for personal computers based on popular software applications and operating systems.
BAPCo's current membership includes Acer, ARCIntuition, ChinaByte, CNET, Compal Electronics, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi, Intel, Inventec, LC Future Center, Lenovo, Microsoft, Pegatron, Quanta Computer, Samsung, Sony, Toshiba, Western Digital, Wistron and Zol.
On June 21, 2011 AMD announced it had resigned from the BAPCo organization after failing to endorse the SYSmark 2012 Benchmark. Nvidia and VIA also left, only weeks later.

Products

Benchmarks from BAPCo include:
BAPco has suffered criticism for bias in its benchmarking products. It was found in 2002 that Intel was the sole contributor to a series of CPU tests, tests which heavily favoured their own CPU's vs competitors, where the tests of the year before performed significantly better on non-Intel parts. Intel was investigated by the FTC, and eventually fined for this action, among other anti-competitive measures.