Productivity
“General System Performance” is a pretty broad heading, but in our case this means a series of tests that measure the performance of various parts of the system in unison.
PCMark ’05
The PCMark 05 results above give some important details about the different parts of the M1710. Graphics and hard drive capabilities are way ahead of anything we’ve tested so far. CPU and memory performance we already looked at on the previous page and show it is superior to the other systems we’re testing.
ScienceMark 2.0
ScienceMark 2 performs some CPU and memory intensive computations like calculating the orbitals of electrons (Primordia) and measuring the thermodynamic behaviour of molecules (moldyn). Each test is run and an overall score is given.
SPEC ViewPerf 8.1
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SPEC ViewPerf 8.1 | ||
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Dell |
Asus | |
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3DS Max |
20.68 |
14.9 |
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Catia |
13.75 |
11.13 |
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Ensight |
13.17 |
16.33 |
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Lightwave |
13.4 |
9.221 |
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Maya |
26.14 |
14.49 |
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ProEngineer |
3.333 |
14.73 |
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Solid Works |
14.93 |
13.14 |
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UGS |
8.021 |
11.79 |
In SPEC ViewPerf, we can see that the Dell M1710 does a very good job at certain rendering tests which makes it suitable for some modelling work for professionals. Interestingly the numbers are a bit closer than I would have suspected since the A7J is using a Radeon X1600.
