Alienware X51 R2 Small Form Factor Game PC, Haswell-Infused
PCMark & 3DMark Tests
To kick things off we fired up Futuremark's system performance benchmark, PCMark Vantage. This synthetic benchmark suite simulates a range of real-world scenarios and workloads, stressing various system subsets in the process. Everything you'd want to do with your PC -- watching HD movies, music compression, image editing, gaming, and so forth -- is represented here. Also, most of the tests are multi-threaded, making this a good indicator of all-around performance.
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3DMark11, is specifically targeted at Windows 7-based systems due to its DirectX 11 requirement. 3DMark11 isn't simply a port of 3DMark Vantage to DirectX 11, though. With this latest version of the benchmark, Futuremark has incorporated four new graphics tests, a physics tests, and a new combined test. We tested the graphics cards here with 3DMark11's Performance preset option, which uses a resolution of 1280x720 with 4x anti-aliasing and 16x anisotropic filtering.
In an effort to build up a database of 3DMark 11 Extreme preset scores, and because we were curious how it would fare, we ran the X51 R2 through the benchmark's highest setting. It barely broke a sweat. To put that 2.966 score into perspective, a typical Ivy Bridge system running on integrated graphics will score in the vicinity of 200 to 300 points in the same test.