Acer Swift 3 16 Laptop Review: Affordable And Capable
Acer Swift 3 16" Review: Benchmarks And Performance Testing
ATTO Disk Benchmark
The ATTO disk benchmark is a fairly quick and simple test which measures read/write bandwidth and IOPS across a range of different data sizes. While we don't typically compare these results across multiple machines, it's useful to gauge whether a particular notebook's storage subsystem is up to snuff.BrowserBench Speedometer Web Application Benchmark
We don't get to hold onto all of the laptops and notebooks we've tested, so software and driver updates unfortunately come into play in a test like Speedometer. That said, the Acer Swift 3 put up a strong number here and landed near the top of the charts.
Cinebench R23 Rendering Test
This is the latest 3D rendering benchmark from Maxon, based on the Cinema 4D R23 rendering engine. We tested both single-threaded and multi-threaded tests on all of the notebooks represented here...The Core i7-11370H powering our Acer Swift 3 is a quad-core / eight-thread processor with up to a 35W TDP and a max boost clock of 4.8GHz. As such, it's not going to compete with the top-end processors in some of the higher-end configurations represented here, but it definitely holds its own. The Acer Swift 3 ended up competing well against the MSI Prestige EVO 14 and was right in the mix with the other quad-core processors.
GeekBench 5 Testing
Geekbench is a cross-platform benchmark that simulates real world processing workloads in image processing and particle physics scenarios. We tested the notebooks featured here in Geekbench's single and multi-core workloads. It measures single-threaded performance allowing a single core to stretch its legs, and multi-threaded throughput to put all cores under a heavy load.PCMark 10 Testing
PCMark 10 uses a mix of real-world applications and simulated workloads to establish how well a given system performs productivity tasks, including image and video editing, web browsing, and OpenOffice document editing. While these scores appear to be all over the place, the systems are sorted by their overall PCMark score, which is the third (gray) bar in each cluster.3DMark Graphics And GPU Tests
3DMark has several different graphics tests which focus on different types of systems. We start with Time Spy, which is 3DMark's headline benchmark. This test presents a pretty significant challenge for the system's CPU and GPU using DirectX 12's API...Middle Earth: Shadow Of War Tests
The Acer Swift 3 is not a gaming notebook, but we ran Shadow Of War on the system nonetheless. Everyone needs a bit of downtime, and if you plan to squeeze in some gaming when the workday is over, we wanted to present some real-world gaming benchmarks. In the Shadow Of War benchmark, Intel's Iris Xe Graphics engine trails AMD's latest (in the Ryzen 6000 series) by a wide margin, but actually out runs the Vega-based graphics engine in the Ryzen 4000 and 5000 series. Stepping up to a system with a discrete GPU obviously results in vastly better gaming performance.
Acer Swift 3 Battery Life Testing
We also performed a lighter-duty, quick and dirty battery rundown test by playing a YouTube video on loop at 1080p resolution, with the screen brightness turned up to 100%. The Swift 3 was able to stay powered on for a total of 7hrs 47mins, or 467 minutes, in this test before finally powering off. So, if you are simply using the laptop to view some videos on a long trip and maybe do some light browsing and what not, the battery should last quite a while.