Samsung Galaxy Book2 Pro 360 Laptop Review: Svelte Stunner
ATTO Disk Benchmark
ATTO disk benchmark is a fairly quick and dirty test that measures sequential read/write bandwidth across a range of different data sizes. While we don't typically compare these results across multiple machines, it's useful to gauge whether a particular notebook's storage subsystem is up to snuff.
Here, though we wish Samsung would have equipped the new Galaxy Book2 Pro 360 with a PCIe 4 SSD, we're clearly looking at PCIe 3 storage speeds, and on the lower end of product product spectrum at that. As prolific as Samsung storage solutions are in the marketplace, the company opted not to equip the machine with something like a Samsung SSD 980 Pro, that could push bandwidth to the 7GB/s mark. Whether for form factor, cost or power budget reasons, instead on board is a Samsung PM991a SSD that tops out at a relatively pedestrian 2GB/s for reads and just a hair over 1GB/s for writes. Though this machine does boot quick as a bunny and wakes from sleep almost instantaneously, those looking for a little extra bandwidth for perhaps video content creation workloads, might be wanting for a little more throughput here.
Cinebench R23 shows a massive gain in performance versus Samsung's previous gen Galaxy Book Pro 360, and a big lead over most other laptops in its class with the best single-threaded throughput as well. It does fall short in multithreaded performance versus the higher powered 35 Watt TDP Ryzen 9 6900HS, but it's still a very strong showing for Samsung's new Galaxy Book2 laptop regardless.
Here again it's another strong performance for the new Samsung Galaxy Book2 Pro 360, though it can't quite catch a few of the Ryzen powered machines at the top of the pack. We suspect Samsung's choice of SSDs is holding things back here a bit, as traditionally PCMark 10 tends to be disk throughput sensitive.
BrowserBench Speedometer Web Application Benchmark
We use BrowserBench.org's Speedometer test to gauge mixed internet usage experience, which takes a holistic look at web application performance. This test automatically loads and runs several sample web apps from ToDoMVC.com using the most popular web development frameworks around, including React, Angular, Ember.js, and vanilla JavaScript. This test is a better example of how systems cope with real web applications, as opposed to a pure JavaScript compute test like JetStream.
With Speedometer we see the benefits of Samsung's Intel 12th Gen refresh shining through with significantly fast light duty responsiveness in web-based bursty workloads.
Cinebench R23 Rendering Test
This is the latest 3D rendering benchmark from Maxon, based on the Cinema 4D R23 rendering engine. We tested both single-threaded and multi-threaded tests on all of the notebooks represented here...
Cinebench R23 shows a massive gain in performance versus Samsung's previous gen Galaxy Book Pro 360, and a big lead over most other laptops in its class with the best single-threaded throughput as well. It does fall short in multithreaded performance versus the higher powered 35 Watt TDP Ryzen 9 6900HS, but it's still a very strong showing for Samsung's new Galaxy Book2 laptop regardless.
PCMark 10 Testing
PCMark 10 uses a mix of real-world applications and simulated workloads to establish how well a given system performs productivity tasks, including image and video editing, web browsing, and OpenOffice document editing. While these scores appear to be all over the place, the systems are sorted by their overall PCMark score, which is the third (gray) bar in each cluster.
3DMark Graphics And GPU Tests
3DMark has several different graphics tests which focus on different types of systems. We start with Night Raid, which is 3DMark's targeted benchmark for laptops with integrated graphics. This test presents a solid challenge for the system's CPU and GPU engines using DirectX 12's API. We'll then move on to the even more taxing 3DMark Fire Strike.
When it comes to graphics and gaming, Intel's Alder Lake-P 12th Gen Core processors sport the same Iris Xe graphics integrated GPUs as previous Tiger Lake 11th Gen Core CPUs. As as a result, rather unremarkably, we see basically identical performance and AMD's new integrated Radeon graphics in Ryzen 6000 is markedly faster.
Middle Earth: Shadow Of War And Gear Tactics Game Tests
Middle Earth: Shadow of War is a fun and and beautiful title set in Tolkien's Lord of the Rings universe. To test the game's performance relative to other systems, we set the resolution to 1920x1080 and turned the visuals up to the High preset. The frame rates here are the average reported by the built-in benchmark.
It's more of the same here with the DX11 class game title Middle Earth: Shadow of War, and you'll have to dial things back a bit, rather than running at the High preset like our benchmark test, to get playable frame rates. Regardless, there's at least some casual gaming on tap here with the Galaxy Book2 Pro 360, as evidenced by it's playable frame rates in our Gears Tactics benchmark runs.
It's more of the same here with the DX11 class game title Middle Earth: Shadow of War, and you'll have to dial things back a bit, rather than running at the High preset like our benchmark test, to get playable frame rates. Regardless, there's at least some casual gaming on tap here with the Galaxy Book2 Pro 360, as evidenced by it's playable frame rates in our Gears Tactics benchmark runs.
