Although ultrabooks don’t have the gaming muscle you can find in larger laptops, they’re usually capable of light gaming duties. We fired up some well-known 3D benchmarks to see how the Spectre x360 handles them.
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Cinebench R11.5
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3D Rendering on the CPU and GPU
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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 ran the full CPU test, which uses all available cores, as well as the graphics-oriented benchmark.
The Spectre x360 proved to be tough competition for the Yoga 900 in this test, offering a slightly better OpenGL score. Still, the Core i7-65000U put the Yoga 900 ahead in the CPU test. Nothing could touch the Dell XPS 15 though, due to that machine's true, quad-core processor and discrete NVIDIA graphics.
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3DMark Cloud Gate
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Synthetic DirectX Gaming and Graphics Testing
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The 3DMark suite breaks its tests down by computer type. Fire Strike, for example, is aimed at high-end gaming desktops. Cloud Gate, on the other hand, is designed for mainstream notebooks. As with all 3DMark tests the GPU plays a large role in the results, which are measured in points. Higher is better.
The Spectre x360 shows that the Intel HD Graphics 520 is a nice step up over previous-gen integrated solutions, but no match for mid-level discrete GPUs like the GTX 960. The system couldn’t match the Lenovo Yoga 900, with its higher-end processor either.
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Far Cry 2
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DX10 Gaming Performance
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When it comes to lush vegetation in a steaming, sinister jungle, no one pulls it off quite like Ubisoft does in its Far Cry series. Far Cry 2 uses high-quality textures, complex shaders, and dynamic lighting to create a realistic environment. The game’s built-in benchmark gives us a good look at a system’s performance with DirectX 10.
With a very playable framerate in Far Cry 2, the HP Spectre x360 showed that it’s perfectly capable of handling casual gaming, especially the Core i7-powered model.
