MSI GT683R-242US With GeForce GTX 560M Review
PCMark & 3DMark Tests
We'll start our benchmark testing with 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, and most of the tests are multi-threaded, making this a good indicator of all-around performance.
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As you can see the GT683R performs quite well, outscoring all of the notebooks in our reference bank with the exception of the Maingear eX-L 15. When you consider the price difference of the Maingear eX-L 15 ($2,456) compared to the $1,499.99 price tag of the MSI GT683R, the performance of the GT683R is quite impressive.
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Next, we'll take a look at Futuremark's 3DMark Vantage benchmark, which focuses on gaming performance. Some of the technologies in 3DMark Vantage are only available with DirectX 10, making this a better barometer of modern gaming prowess than the older 3Mark06 benchmark. And unlike previous versions, 3DMark Vantage puts a bit more emphasis on the CPU rather than focusing almost entirely on the GPU(s).
Here again, the GT683R posts a very good score. In fact, the notebook once again outscores all of the notebooks in our reference bank with the exception of the high-end Maingear eX-L 15.
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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. |
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Because 3DMark11 is so new, we're still building our reference bank to use in comparing systems. Here, you can see that the GT683R achieved a very respectable score with the Extreme preset option.
When running the 3DMark11 benchmark with the Performance Preset, the MSI GT683R again achieves a high score, though the Maingear eX-L 15 and Asus G73Jh-A1 are able to squeeze out a few more points than the GT683R.
