Digital Storm Bolt 3 SFF Gaming PC: A Compact Powerhouse
PCMark 8 and Cinebench
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PCMark 8 simulates the workloads computers face in several different settings, including home and office use. The benchmark also has a test that simulates
a creative professional’s usage, as well as battery and storage tests. We ran the tests with OpenCL acceleration enabled to leverage the power of the Bolt
3's CPU and GPU.
Curiously, the Bolt 3 performed better than any other system we've recently tested on PCMark 8's Home Accelerated test, but did much worse on its Work Accelerated test. We're not sure why the discrepancy exists, as we didn't get a sense that the Bolt 3 was that slow on any other benchmark we ran. Chalk this one up to PCMark 8 fussiness or differences with drivers between the systems. Display drivers especially can affect OpenCL acceleration.
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Based on Maxon Cinema 4D software, this test uses a 3D scene and polygon and texture manipulation to assess GPU and CPU performance. We run the Main Processor Performance (CPU) test, which builds a still scene containing about 2,000 objects, for a total polygon count above the 300,000 mark. We also run the OpenGL test to get a quick-and-dirty assessment of graphics performance with a professional workload.
