Alienware Alpha Intel-Powered SFF Gaming PC: Consoles Beware
 |
|
Unigine Heaven provides heavy tessellation use and a dynamic sky to stress modern graphics cards. The Valley benchmark, on the other hand, is loaded with vegetation. The benchmark tours a forest thick with flowers, boulders, and rivers. We ran the test at 1920 x 1080, on Ultra Quality and with the Extreme Tessellation option.
Here, the Alpha's scores about as you'd expect. Being able to handle punishing benchmarks like Heaven and Valley bode well for the system's ability to handle games, if not at the highest settings. Next, we'll see how the Alpha actually performs in those games.
