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Valley Benchmark is a new GPU stress-testing tool from the developers of the very popular and highly acclaimed Heaven Benchmark.
The forest-covered valley surrounded by vast mountains amazes with its scale from a bird’s-eye view and is extremely detailed down to every leaf and flower petal.
This non-synthetic benchmark powered by the state-of-the art UNIGINE Engine showcases a comprehensive set of cutting-edge graphics technologies with a dynamic environment and fully interactive modes available to the end user.
We configured this benchmark to use the settings above, at 720p.
When we ran the benchmark the first time we knew something was wrong. Frame rate performance was terrible, dropping into the single digits. After running the Unigine Heaven Benchmark previously we knew the performance differential couldn't be correct.
We decided to head into the Nvidia driver panel and negate the ‘auto selection'. The Nvidia driver is meant to automatically select whether the integrated Intel HD graphics or Nvidia discrete card is used … in this case the GTX 760M should be initiated for intensive 3D activity. We switched the ‘preferred graphics processor' option from ‘Auto Select' to ‘High Performance NVIDIA processor'.
This is more like it! Frame rate performance basically quadrupled between Intel HD4600 and Nvidia GTX760M, when the discrete solution was properly firing into action. I have experienced similar issues in the past and this auto switching system still seems to have some teething problems.
No laptop is worth that money, u could get a PC that blows that out of the water for the same price
When I see a mechanical drive now in such a machine I always despair. its such an oversight as nothing is more important for a machine than a fast drive. even the CPU or GPU isnt as important.
@ Stephen, well you can’t really carry around a £1,000 desktop, or put it in a bag in cabin luggage on a plane. Its horses for courses. Many people love these tiny little machines for mobile gaming.
I think MSI dropped the ball a little with this spec though.
is this windows 7 or 8 ?
What do you think it is? Microsoft is paying big money to shove win 8 down our throats.
I bought this laptop last week and it came with a 128 ssd + 750 gig standard HD. I upgraded the ram to 16 gigs and so far it’s been a great little machine. The pre installed software bloat is definitely an issue though. Navigating the msi site for driver updates is also a bit of a pain. If you go to the main site it’s alright but picking the Canadian site and trying to find any information is completely useless.
The machine ships with Windows 8. I got the machine with no OS installed and slapped on Windows 7. All drivers available on the product page at MSI.com