Dell Latitude E6530 Review: Business Class Performance
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
the "Ranch" map. |
The somewhat dated FarCry 2 benchmark isn't as hard on current gen systems, but with this machine boasting only an integrated HD 4000 GPU, we figured it'd be a fair match. Even at the native 1600x900 resolution, we were able to maintain constant 23-28 frames per second. Crank the details down a bit and it's possible to remain at over 30FPS. Again, impressive with an integrated GPU.
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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.
