Boutique Graphics PCs Duke It Out

Synthetics, Continued

We finally have two complete sets of SYSmark 2007 benchmarks to begin our SYSmark benchmark evaluations. In its E-Learning suite, the Digital Storm Twister Extreme shows only a 5% lead over the less elaborate AVA Direct system.

SYSmark 2007's Video Creation benchmark puts the Digital Strom Twister Extreme in the lead by a more reasonable 32%.

SYSmark 2007's Productivity Benchmark shows the Digital Storm with a 4% lead. We're starting to wonder if SYSmark's creator BAPCo is really certain of the products' relevance to current hardware, given the performance gains we normally see from four-core processors.

SYSmark 2007 hands the Digital Storm's SLI configuration a paltry 16% lead in 3D performance.

Digital Storm will probably feel cheated by SYSmark's report of a 14% overall performance difference.