It does what it says it does, it's great at benchmarking hardware, even lets you (or them) keep track of scores and compare to big data sets about systems to know where yours is and where it's lacking.

So why do I not recommend the software? The company's business model. If you buy it now, (particularly since it's on sale for CDN$11.24) you get everything, every single upgrade is included for the price. I got it on sale too, the December sale back in 2014 for CDN$5.59. I bought the Time Spy upgrade on sale too, in the December sale of 2017 for CDN$1.64. In total I paid CDN$7.23, but I don't own the Storage Benchmark (CDN$3.39), the Port Royal upgrade (CDN$3.39) or the Speed Way upgrade (CDN$5.69). In total the upgrades I don't have would cost CDN$12.47 to buy separetely now, more than the current sale price of the software including all three of them and the Time Spy upgrade I already own. Since I already own PCMark and VRMark I could even buy the whole package bundle for CDN$7.87 and just get these upgrades in the current sale at nearly half the price, just like I could if I didn't own any parts of 3dMark but had the other two.

I'm okay with paid DLC, even in non-game software, I'm not okay with them punishing existing owners by charging so much for that DLC but throwing it in for free for new buyers.

It does what it says it does, it's great at benchmarking hardware, even lets you (or them) keep track of scores and compare to big data sets about systems to know where yours is and where it's lacking. So why do I not recommend the software? The company's business model. If you buy it now, (particularly since it's on sale for CDN$11.24) you get everything, every single upgrade is included for the price. I got it on sale too, the December sale back in 2014 for CDN$5.59. I bought the Time Spy upgrade on sale too, in the December sale of 2017 for CDN$1.64. In total I paid CDN$7.23, but I don't own the Storage Benchmark (CDN$3.39), the Port Royal upgrade (CDN$3.39) or the Speed Way upgrade (CDN$5.69). In total the upgrades I don't have would cost CDN$12.47 to buy separetely now, more than the current sale price of the software including all three of them and the Time Spy upgrade I already own. Since I already own PCMark and VRMark I could even buy the whole package bundle for CDN$7.87 and just get these upgrades in the current sale at nearly half the price, just like I could if I didn't own any parts of 3dMark but had the other two. I'm okay with paid DLC, even in non-game software, I'm not okay with them punishing existing owners by charging so much for that DLC but throwing it in for free for new buyers.