Next up is another synthetic graphics test, this time from Unigine Corp. Like
3DMark, the Superposition test renders and pans through a detailed 3D scene
and measures how the system copes. In this case, it’s rendered in the
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second opinion on each laptop’s graphical prowess.
Then we come to the 3D performance, which isn’t great on any of these laptops.
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with Intel Iris Xe!) for gaming or any 3D task. The VivoBook Flip 14 is among
the better options here, but not by much, and they’re still all in the low tier. This
means you can do some simple and low-settings gaming, but mainstream and
hardcore fans will want to look into a gaming laptop with a discrete GPU.
BATTERY RUNDOWN TEST
After fully recharging the laptop, we set up the machine in power-save mode (as
opposed to balanced or high-performance mode) where available and make a
few other battery-conserving tweaks in preparation for our unplugged video
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short we use in our Handbrake test—with screen brightness set at 50 percent
and volume at 100 percent until the system quits.