ECS LIVA X2 Mini PC Review

Dominic Moass April 25, 2016 Featured Announcement, HTPC, PC, Server

3DMark

To test the Intel HD Graphics that are part of the Braswell SOC, I first ran 3DMark Fire Strike.

Compared to the LIVA X it is just ahead. Compared to any other discrete GPU, it is miles behind. Again, this is to be expected.

Tomb Raider

Finally, I tested Tomb Raider using the ‘low' settings preset. Tomb Raider is not the most demanding of games, so I wanted to see how the iGPU got on with it.

As you can see – not very well at all. Any sort of gaming is completely out of the question with the LIVA X2.

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KitGuru Games: DLSS 5 misses the point

It would be hard to argue that NVIDIA’s DLSS technologies haven’t been a net positive to the PC space, with the machine-learning based upscaler successfully translating lower resolution inputs into a final image which is perceivably sharper while hogging fewer resources. Though somewhat more contentious, the next evolution of DLSS came in the form of Frame Generation, using ML in order to generate additional frames for high-refresh rate gaming. Both techniques can have their issues, but generally speaking they’ve allowed for more people to experience higher-end titles at increased frame rates. DLSS 5, however, takes a sharp pivot, with a very different end goal in mind than the performance-boosting versions that came before.

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