Designed to measure your PC’s gaming performance 3DMark 11 makes extensive use of all the new features in DirectX 11 including tessellation, compute shaders and multi-threading. Trusted by gamers worldwide to give accurate and unbiased results, 3DMark 11 is the best way to consistently and reliably test DirectX 11 under game-like loads.
Given the fact that 3D Mark 11 primarily tests GPU performance, it is unsurprising that the MC101-A10 wasn't able to reach the heights of the desktop systems previously tested. The Custom system, which happens to be the lowest spec of the three, is still complemented by a very respectable ZOTAC GTX 460 1GB. By contrast the ARCTIC MC101-A10's graphic horsepower comes from the on-die HD 7660G GPU which also utilises system memory rather than high-speed GDDR4/5 RAM.
With that in mind, 30% the performance of the discrete GTX 460 1GB system is not bad, and comfortably exceeds the discrete Radeon HD5430 GPU of the MC001-BD. For an APU the results are excellent and indicate how far the platform has come.
Whether these figures can translate to real-world gaming performance remains to be seen.
