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The GeForce GTX 960 in the Alienware Alpha R2 doubles the performance compared to the original Alpha.
So while the Alpha R2’s GTX 960 shows 70 percent of the GTX 980’s performance in this benchmark, it would fall back to less than 50 percent of the GTX 980’s output under a tougher load.
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3DMark Sky Diver is a pretty light load designed to mimic mainstream 1080p gaming, so during the test, the zero-point system’s GTX 980 is just idling most of the time. In fact, the performance gap is much larger than this one test would have you believe. Our PCWorld zero-point system serves as a point of context: It runs a GeForce GTX 980 that’s clearly much faster.
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Intel’s Iris Pro 580 in its Skull Canyon NUC is also pretty impressive for integrated graphics, but it still takes a back seat to the GTX 860M. You can see there’s a world of performance difference between the Alpha R2’s desktop GTX 960 and the original Alpha’s mobile GTX 860M. It’s a synthetic gaming test, but generally respected for measuring gaming performance without favoritism. More important, however, is how it does in gaming. The upshot for CPU performance is that the Alienware Alpha R2 speeds along just fine. The quad-core Core i7-6700T holds its own against competing quad-core chips just fine. The Alpha R2 with its Core i7-6700T comes in ahead of our zero-point system’s desktop Haswell chip, too-an impressive showing.
The Intel Skull Canyon NUC with its Core i7-6770HQ and 128MB of embedded DRAM leads the pack by a hair. It also takes a long time to run, so machines that can’t handle the heat will show performance issues. Like CineBench R15, it’s a pure CPU test and loves multiple cores.
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Our encoding test uses the free and popular program Handbrake to convert a 30GB 1080p video file using the Android Tablet preset.
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The Alpha R2’s quad-core Skylake CPU holds it own against a full desktop quad-core processor, as well as Intel’s fancy-pants Skull Canyon NUC. The older Haswell chip wins here by a little bit, thanks to its higher wattage and higher clock speed-even though it’s the oldest CPU. It’s a great way to see how a machine’s processor stacks up, as it favors those with more CPU cores.
Here’s the Alpha R2 compared to Intel’s nifty little Skull Canyon NUC with a quad-core Skylake processor, the original Alpha with a dual-core Core i3 chip, and our PCWorld zero-point desktop with a 4th-generation Haswell Core i7 CPU.ĬineBench R15 is a quick benchmark that measures a PC’s ability to render 3D scenes. The back of the Alpha R2 gives you an optical S/PDIF audio port, two USB 3.0 Type A ports, gigabit ethernet, HDMI 2.0 out, HDMI In, and a port that supports Alienware’s Amplifier GPU enclosure. In practical use, the Alpha R2 is pretty fast. The good news is the Core i7-6700T has a healthy Turbo Boost of 3.6GHz, so the performance disparity isn’t quite as big as you’d think. Here are all three CPUs available for the Alpha R2, lined up with a Core i7-6700K for context. The base speed on a Core i7-6700K is 4.0GHz, while the Core i7-6700T’s is 2.8GHz. To drop from 91 watts to 35, you give up a lot of clock speed.
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