Image processing

Adobe Photoshop

ACDSee PowerPack

WorldBench's image processing tasks prove more problematic for the VelociRaptor's production firmware. The VR150 may only be a few seconds off the pace in ACDSee, but it gets booted from first to last in Photoshop. Even then, the final drive is only 4% slower than the engineering sample.

Multitasking and office applications

Microsoft Office

Mozilla

Mozilla and Windows Media Encoder

The VelociRaptor loses a little more ground in WorldBench's office and multitasking tests. Scores are still very close across the board, though.

Other applications

WinZip

Nero

Nero and WinZip are the most disk-intensive tests in the WorldBench suite. The early and production VelociRaptors are evenly matched in the former, but the final VR150 manages to extend a bit of a lead in the latter.