Dell Inspiron 11 3000: A 2-in-1 For The Masses

Name: Dell Inspiron 11 3000: A 2-in-1 For The Masses
Brand: Dell

by Joshua Gulick — Monday, September 22, 2014, 10:43 AM EDT

Cinebench

General Performance Testing

Cinebench

Based on Maxon Cinema 4D software, this test uses a 3D scene and polygon and texture manipulation to assess GPU and CPU performance. The Main Processor Performance (CPU) test builds a still scene containing about 2,000 objects for a total polygon count above 300,000. The Graphics Card Performance (OpenGL) scene uses nearly 1 million polygons and various lighting and environment scenarios to measure graphics performance. Cinebench displays results for the CPU test in points and the OpenGL (GPU) test in frames per second.

We tested the Dell Inspiron 11 3147 on both Cinebench version R11.5, for which we have plenty of comparison data, and the new version R15. Dell's convertible is clearly outgunned here, but one look at the processors and graphics of the other laptops makes it clear that they have more powerful hardware. Again, this is a budget machine, so these sorts of performance results are expected.

Tags: Intel, Dell, laptop, IPS, Windows 8.1

Joshua Gulick

Josh cut his teeth (and hands) on his first PC upgrade in 2000 and was instantly hooked on all things tech. He took a degree in English and tech writing with him to Computer Power User Magazine and spent years reviewing high-end workstations and gaming systems, processors, motherboards, memory and video cards. His enthusiasm for PC hardware also made him a natural fit for covering the burgeoning modding community, and he wrote CPU’s “Mad Reader Mod” cover stories from the series’ inception until becoming the publication editor for Smart Computing Magazine. A few years ago, he returned to his first love, reviewing smoking-hot PCs and components, for HotHardware. When he’s not agonizing over benchmark scores, Josh is either running (very slowly) or spending time with family.