Lenovo ThinkPad X230T Convertible Notebook
Gaming Benchmarks and Battery Life
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the original, FarCry 2 is one of the more visually impressive games to
be released on the PC to date. Courtesy of the Dunia game engine
developed by Ubisoft, FarCry 2's game-play is enhanced by advanced
environment physics, destructible terrain, high resolution textures,
complex shaders, realistic dynamic lighting, and motion-captured
animations. We benchmarked the test systems in this article with the
FarCry 2 benchmark tool using one of the built-in demo runs recorded in
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The somewhat dated Far Cry 2 benchmark isn't as hard on current gen systems, but in this case the X230T couldn't quite keep up. It's obvious that the HD 4000 integrated GPU isn't meant for serious hardcore gaming but what's really killing frame rates here for the X230T is its low memory bandwidth we showed you in the SANDRA test. This CPU should be able to punch out in excess of 22FPS here but not while it's hamstrung in memory bandwidth.
Left 4 Dead 2, though it has reasonably good visuals, is a bit easier on the graphics subsystem. This was a game engine that the Lenovo IdeaPad X230T could handle a bit better as well.
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BatteryEater Pro tends to measure worst case scenarios, in that it doesn't really take into consideration power saving features, instead working the system's hard drive, CPU and graphics moderately until it dies out. We kept our test machines with Wi-Fi on, and screen brightness hovering at 50% for the life of the test.
