What is Nero Score?

WHAT IS NERO SCORE?

Nero Score is a free tool which measures your processor’s (CPU) multi-core power and is pushing your graphics card (GPU) to it’s maximum limit with real world multimedia use cases.

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Nero Score is used by journalists to review hardware, hardware manufacturers to optimize their latest products, as well as computer owners to evaluate their individual system to make purchase decisions.

WHAT KIND OF BENCHMARKS ARE INCLUDED IN NERO SCORE?

The initial version of Nero Score includes an CPU AI benchmark and measures how many pictures per second can be processed with artificial intelligence on the given CPU. So this in not about training an model, but actually applying a trained model on data (called inference). The outcome of this test will let you compare how different CPUs score in this domain. The result can be 1:1 matched with CPU-based AI inference solution, like e.g. Nero AI Photo Tagger. The data set for this test includes 50 pictures that will be inferred 3 times each. The format and size of the pictures doesn’t matter for this test as the AI inference only needs an input of 299×299 pixels in size anyway.

WHAT KIND OF TESTS WILL BE NEXT IN NERO SCORE?

The roadmap for Nero Score foresees an extension into further multi-media related use cases utilizing CPU and multiple GPUs e.g. video encoding, 3D rendering.

HOW IS THE SCORE CALCULATED?

Nero is fully transparency on the calculation of the actual score. Each of the tests executed within Nero Score will generate a score of it’s own. For example: The CPU AI benchmark measures how many pictures are processed per second. This number is multiplied by a factor of 25 to generate the score for this specific test. So there is a 1:1 relation between the score and the performance of the CPU for the given task. A PC with twice the score will be twice as fast.

As soon as there are more tests a total score will be calculated from the single results and the simple formula for this calculation will be made transparent, too. Over time there might be changes on how the score is calculated, those will be called out and documented with revisions to ensure that results are always reproducible and comparable.

HOW CAN I CHECK MORE REAL-WORLD PERFORMANCE DATA?

score.nero.com will list all performance data which submitted by customers. Try Nero Score on your PC now, to see how your PC performs.

HOW CAN I GET NERO SCORE?

Download Nero Score from Nero Lab

WHAT SHOULD BE CONSIDERED BEFORE/WHILE RUNNING A TEST?

  • Laptops should be connected to a power supply.
  • The high performance power plan should be selected on any device.
  • All open applications should be closed.
  • No user activity should be done in the foreground.
  • Background activity should be avoided e.g. no virus scans, software update downloads, cloud uploads.

WHICH KIND OF PLATFORMS ARE SUPPORTED BY NERO SCORE?

At the moment Nero Score is supporting Windows 10 64-Bit exclusively.

ARE THERE COMMAND LINE OPTIONS AVAILABLE?

Yes, for example “C:\Program Files (x86)\Nero\Nero Apps\Nero Score\NeroScore.exe” runtimes:50 stoptime:3 logfile:1 will executed the current test 50 times with a pause of 3 seconds in between and create a log file in %temp%\NeroScore (so inside he current users system temp folder).

  • runtimes: number of times the test should be run
  • stoptime: time between the runs in seconds
  • logfile: defines if a log file should be generated 1 = yes / 0 = no
  • logfilepath: alternative path for the log file e.g. “E:” or “D:\Score”
  • autoexit: defines if the application should exit after all tests are done 1 =yes / 0 = no
  • language: use any of the above 4 letter codes to define the application language manually (e.g. es-ES)
  • exepath: runs a specific application on exit (e.g. “C:\WINDOWS\system32\notepad.exe”)

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How to use AI tags to organize my photos?

Now, after getting the AI tags at the end of detection, Nero AI Photo Tagger can also help you automatically organize your photos into folders, based on these AI categories.
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At the bottom of AI Tags panel, you will see a ‘Copy Files’ button. Clicking it will pop up a system dialog to select a location as the target.
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After you confirmed the location, Nero AI Photo Tagger will create sub-folders based on AI Tags and copy all these photos into the according folders.
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Now, all your photos are organized by the detected AI tags.

You can also select only some of the AI categories to copy. Clicking ‘Select’ will enable multi-select mode.
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Now you can select one or more tags to copy. Nero AI Photo Tagger will only copy the photos of selected categories to new location.

Click here to better organize your media, with world leading local AI technology, in Nero Platinum Suite now.

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What can I do with my AI tags, which generated by Nero AI Photo Tagger?

AI tags will help you to find the right image from many snapshots, fast and easy.

      • Nero MediaHome can make your AI tags even more powerful.

The all new Nero AI Photo Tagger is connected to Nero MediaHome. Now, via AI tags, you can more easily manage your photos in Nero MediaHome. All of your information are saved at local, securely.

You can start Nero AI Photo Tagger inside of Nero MediaHome. Nero AI Photo Tagger will analyze all photos in your MediaHome library. Nero MediaHome also will load the AI analysis result for all photos automatically. Now you are not only able to browse photos by different AI tags, you can also create slide shows, albums, etc. by AI tags.
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In Find view, you will find out your photo extremely easy if you combine AI tags with existing Face and Place information. For example, I captured some photos for a little cat during my trip to California. Now, I would like to find them. I only need to:
1. Select the ‘Cat’ tag in Find view > Nero MediaHome will list all photos which are tagged as Cat:
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2. Select the Place of ‘California’ – now I find the photos!
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You also can directly view your photos via AI Tags at mobile phone. From Nero Streaming Player, AI Tags view is available for Nero MediaHome streaming server now!
1. Start Nero MediaHome at your PC. Start Nero Streaming Player at your mobile. Please make sure that your PC and mobile are connected to the same Wi-Fi network.
2. Your Nero MediaHome will be listed under ‘Play from PC & NAS’. Select ‘Nero MediaHome’.
3. ‘Timeline’ is the default view for your Nero MediaHome. Clicking the ‘Timeline’ title bar will list all views for your selection. (iOS & Android)
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4. Clicking ‘AI Tags’. (iOS & Android)
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Now you can view your photos based on AI Tags and stream them to big screen to share with your families.

Click here to better organize your media, with world leading local AI technology, in Nero Platinum Suite now.

        • In Windows Explorer, how to use AI tags to find the right photo from many files?

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After you got the analyzed AI Tags, you can save all or some of them to your JPEG/JPG photos. Then in Windows Explorer, you will see the saved AI tags are listed:
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If the ‘Tags’ is not by default enabled, please enable it from Windows Explorer title bar.
Now, you can input the AI tag as keyword to search photos. For example, if I would like to find one photo with ‘cat’, I just need to input ‘cat’ into Windows Explorer ‘search’ area. Windows Explorer will list all photos with ‘Cat’ tag.
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    • AI tags also bring convenience to other photo management software

If you saved the AI tags to your JPEG files by Nero AI Photo Tagger, it will also bring convenience while you are using other photo management software. For example, if you are using Picasa to manage your photos, you can input ‘cat’ in the search area, then all your ‘cat’ photos will be listed:
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