Battlefield 4

Publisher: EA

With DICE's newest GPU crippler having been released this past Friday, we quickly took the opportunity to benchmark the game on AMD's and Nvidia's top end cards, which are the most relevant ones for this review. We'll be adding new data to these charts for all current generation cards soon in our in-depth performance analysis of the game.

We run a 60 second benchmark on the game's sixth campaign level, Tashgar, during the on rails section at the level's start. We begin the recording as soon as the subtitle for the first line of dialogue appears on screen. Please note that we may use an alternative benchmark in our full performance analysis, but the excellent repeatability and highly demanding nature of this section of the game makes it suitable for our purposes here.

For this particular test, we ran the benchmark at 1080p and also at 3K - the GT60 2PE Dominator Pro's native resolution and included these results in the graph as well to get an idea of where the playable frame rates are likely to be. All other results are done at 1080p.

Crysis 3

Publisher: EA

Mixing the open-world combat of Crysis with the more tightly scripted urban jungle of Crysis 2, Crysis 3 is a smorgasbord of visual effects and polygons galore. With DirectX 11 support, high resolution textures and incredibly detailed characters models, it's laid down the gauntlet for the next generation of consoles and games alike when it comes to gorgeous graphics

We test using the Very High detail preset and with Very High texture resolution. lens flare and motion blur are both enabled, although due to its heavy performance impact, anti-aliasing is disabled.

As explained earlier, we use a custom macro-driven 60 seconds play-through from the single player mission Red Star Rising. The 60 seconds of gameplay takes place in a large open environment heavy on water and particle effects. Each test is repeated three times, with the average result taken.

For this particular test, we ran the benchmark at 1080p and also at 3K - the GT60 2PE Dominator Pro's native resolution and included these results in the graph as well to get an idea of where the playable frame rates are likely to be. All other results are done at 1080p.

Battery Life

The results for the Schenker XMG P503 Pro were obtained using MobileMark but as this proved to be a little flaky in our last run with it, we opted to use the same method as in our most recent gaming laptop review - the Alienware 14, where we simply played back a 720p video file. However, as we mentioned in that review, the projected battery life compared to the 720p results were pretty much identical so we consider the Schenker XMG P503 Pro comparable to the other results too.

As per normal we ran the test at 40 per cent brightness and with the MSI GT60 2PE Dominator Pro we used the balanced power profile and had WiFi enabled. In addition, as this is first and foremost a gaming laptop, we also ran a continuous loop of the Unigine Heaven benchmark which should give a fairly good indicator of how long the MSI GT60 2PE Dominator Pro will last on battery power in a demanding 3D game.