Samsung ATIV Book 9 Plus Review
Gaming Benchmarks
We recognize most ultrabooks such as the Samsung ATIV Book 9 Plus aren’t designed to be serious gaming machines, but that doesn’t mean they can’t handle a bit of casual gaming, especially when you find Intel's HD 4400 Graphics on board. To get a feel for how the ATIV Book 9 Plus stacks up to other systems, we fired up 3DMark11, Cloud Gate, and Far Cry 2.
As a synthetic gaming benchmark, 3DMark 11 puts extra emphasis on your system’s handling of DirectX 11. However, 3DMark 11 measures more than just the graphics card’s performance; the processor has an influence on the score as well as system memory bandwidth. As a result, this benchmark is a good way to get a feel for how well the system can handle gaming and general computing tasks.
Futuremark 3DMark 11
Simulated DX11 Gaming Performance
The ATIV Book 9 Plus didn’t score as well as other similarly-equipped systems in the 3DMark 11 test. While the Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro and the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon 2014 earned scores that were above 900, the ATIV Book 9 Plus comes in at 759, a noticeable difference in this benchmark.
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The ATIV Book 9 Plus earned a great score in the Cloud Gate test, coming in second place behind the 2014 Dell XPS 13 which has a Core i7-4500U processor and Intel HD 4400 graphics.
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The ATIV Book 9 Plus scores about what we’d expect in the Far Cry 2 test. Although this ultrabook doesn’t top the charts, it earns a score that’s right in line with other notebooks with similar hardware.
