PCSpecialist Vanquish Z11 System Review

1. Introduction2. PCSpecialist Vanquish Z11 System (1)3. PCSpecialist Vanquish Z11 System (2)4. Testing Methodology & Configuration5. Synthetic: PCMark 76. Synthetic: 3DMark Vantage7. Synthetic: 3DMark 118. Synthetic: 3DMark9. Synthetic: Unigine Heaven Benchmark10. Synthetic: SiSoft Sandra11. Synthetic: CineBench R11.5 64bit12. Synthetic: HDD & SSD Testing13. Image Quality: HQV Benchmark 2.014. Real World: 3D Rendering15. Real World: BluRay Playback16. Real World: Flash HD Playback17. Real World: HandBrake 9.518. Gaming: Alien V Predator (DX11)19. Gaming: Far Cry 2 (DX10)20. Gaming: Far Cry 3 (DX11)21. Gaming: Dirt ShowDown (DX11)22. Gaming: Sleeping Dogs (DX11)23. Gaming: Max Payne 3 (DX11)24. Technical: Thermal Dynamics25. Technical: Acoustics Performance26. Technical: Power Consumption27. Closing Thoughts28. View All Pages

V2011 is the first release of 3DStudio Max to fully support the Windows 7 operating system. This is a professional level tool that many people use for work purposes and our test will show any possible differences between board design today.

Autodesk 3ds Max Design 2011 software offers compelling new techniques to help bring designs to life by aggregating data, iterating ideas, and presenting the results.

Streamlined, more intelligent data exchange workflows and innovative new modeling and visualization tools help significantly increase designers’ creativity and productivity, enabling them to better explore, validate, and communicate the stories behind their designs.

Major new features:

• Slate: A node based material editor.
• Quicksilver: Hardware renderer with multithreaded rendering engine that utilizes both CPU and GPU.
• Extended Graphite Modeling Toolset
• 3ds Max Composite: A HDRI-capable compositor based on Autodesk Toxik.
• Viewport Canvas toolset for 3D and 2D texture painting directly in the viewport
• Object Painting: use 3D geometry as ‘brushes’ on other geometry
• Character Animation Toolkit (CAT): now integrated as part of the base package
• Autodesk Material Library: Over 1200 new photometrically accurate shaders
• Additional file format support: includes native support for Sketchup, Inventor
• FBX file linking
• Save to Previous Release (2010)

We created a new 8200×3200 scene and recorded the time for the hardware to finalise the render.

Good results, around the same performance level as a reference clocked Core i7 2700k.

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