Futuremark has announced it has established an open development program to define and create VGMark07, the OpenVG Benchmark. This new benchmark will provide handheld industry companies developing OpenVG API enabled hardware with objective and accurate cross platform comparisons of OpenVG performance. Futuremark is designing VGMark07 as a complete benchmark suite to reliably gauge the performance of handheld devices running applications that utilize OpenVG API. Workloads will be based on popular consumer applications that place a high demand on system performance. The full suite of tests is subject to change, pending industry and partner feedback during the development process, but will replicate OpenVG API dependant tasks such as user interface, text rendering, vector animation and mapping/navigation.

The full press release is posted here for those interested in this latest benchmark.