Our good friends at Cyberlink kindly supplied the software for our Bluray and conversion tests. This software fully supports GPU acceleration and while the system we received for review wasn’t supplied with a BluRay player we have a USB 2.0 powered unit at hand to measure system performance.
Cyberlink PowerDVD 10 is one of the finest solutions for the Blu-Ray experience on Windows and we found this software to work perfectly with this chipset. We tested with the Bluray Disc of Avatar, one of our favourite sci-fi films in recent years.
Average CPU utilisation is around 19 percent, rising to a maximum of 33 percent.
We recorded CPU utilisation across a section of the playback period. The graphics card helps alleviate some of the load which helps raise the overall responsiveness of the system.