

The biggest dips were in Outlook, Word, and Excel in that order, with PowerPoint being the least affected. Procyon was a different situation, with a noticeable dip from a score of 1,643 before Bitdender to a score of 1,408 after. That suggests mid-range PCs and budget PCs may see an impact in those areas. Nevertheless, there were noticeable dips in the App startup score, as well as the video conferencing score. For PCMark 10 there was no significant impact overall between a fresh install of Windows 10 and one running Bitdefender after a full system scan.

As usual we also ran the video encoding test using Handbrake and a large video file, and we also tested how long it took for Excel to open an e-sports grade file. For benchmarks we ran UL’s Procyon Office benchmark in addition to PCMark 10. Bitdefender Central, the suite’s online dashboard for managing devices and parental controls.įor this latest round of tests we changed things up a bit from our previous tests.
