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continued testing and fired up Futuremark's system performance
benchmark, PCMark Vantage. This synthetic benchmark suite simulates a
range of real-world scenarios and workloads, stressing various subsystem
in the process. Everything you'd want to do with your PC --
watching HD movies, music compression, image editing, gaming, and so
forth -- is represented here, and most of the tests are multi-threaded,
making this a good indicator of all-around performance.
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The full Vantage score is below.
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Just look at that number. The E6530 performed like a thoroughbred here, with the Core i7 and SSD no doubt combining to demolish the benchmark. The TV / Movies and Gaming scores are a bit low, likely due to the integrated GPU, but this should make clear that this particular rig is no slouch.
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The Futuremark 3DMark06 CPU benchmark consists of tests that use the CPU to render 3D scenes, rather than the GPU. It runs several threads simultaneously and is designed to utilize multiple processor cores.
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The latest version of Futuremark's synthetic 3D gaming benchmark, 3DMark11, is specifically bound to Windows Vista and 7-based systems because it uses the advanced visual technologies that are only available with DirectX 11, which isn't available on previous versions of Windows. 3DMark11 isn't simply a port of 3DMark Vantage to DirectX 11, though. With this latest version of the benchmark, Futuremark has incorporated four new graphics tests, a physics tests, and a new combined test. We tested the graphics cards here with 3DMark11's Extreme preset option, which uses a resolution of 1920x1080 with 4x anti-aliasing and 16x anisotropic filtering. |
3DMark 11 is still a relatively new benchmark, and we're still building up our database of machines that we've ran through this test. These were set on the "Performance" setting, just to give you a vague idea of comparisons. The E6530 actually landed pretty much in the middle of the rival pack, which is fairly impressive given its integrated HD 4000 graphics, which was also able to edge out even a couple of older discrete solutions. The full score is below.
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