Now we turn our attention to gaming benchmarks, which is where the CZ-17 is designed to succeed. The GTX 675M in the laptop is a rebranded GTX 580M, which means the card should still offer strong overall performance even if it's not quite in the 680M's league.
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| Futuremark 3DMark 11 |
| Synthetic DX11 Gaming Performance |
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Futuremark 3DMark11
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The latest version of Futuremark's synthetic 3D gaming benchmark, 3DMark11, is specifically bound to Windows Vista and 7-based systems because it uses the advanced visual technologies that are only available with DirectX 11, which isn't available on previous versions of Windows. 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 Extreme preset option, which uses a resolution of 1920x1080 with 4x anti-aliasing and 16x anisotropic filtering. |
The Valkyrie's 3DMark performance ties the older Alienware M18x, which is exactly where we'd expect the GPU to land.
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| Metro 2033 |
| DirectX 10 Gaming Performance |
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Metro 2033
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Metro 2033 is your basic post-apocalyptic first person shooter game with a few rather unconventional twists. Unlike most FPS titles, there is no health meter to measure your level of ailment, but rather you’re left to deal with life, or lack there-of more akin to the real world with blood spatter on your visor and your heart rate and respiration level as indicators. The game is loosely based on a novel by Russian Author Dmitry Glukhovsky. Metro 2003 boasts some of the best 3D visuals on the PC platform currently including a DX11 rendering mode that makes use of advanced depth of field effects and character model tessellation for increased realism. We tested the game engine using the Metro 2033 benchmark tool. |
Metro 2033 isn't a great showcase for the GTX 675M. While the card's framerate is playable, the 6990M and 680M are significantly faster. Bumping the resolution down a few notches has a major impact on frame rate in all three laptops, suggesting that this is a relatively simple way to improve FPS in firefights or larger scenes.
