PERFORMANCE TESTING: CORE-H SPEED AND
CAPABLE 3D
To get a sense of what this laptop is capable of, we ran it
through our comprehensive suite of benchmark tests
and compared the results to those of other big-screen
convertibles.
Productivity, Storage, and Media Tests: PCMark
10 and 8 are holistic performance suites developed by
the PC benchmark specialists at UL (formerly
Futuremark). The PCMark 10 test we run simulates
different real-world productivity and content creation
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processing, spreadsheet jockeying, web browsing, and
videoconferencing. PCMark 8, meanwhile, has a storage
subtest that we use to assess the speed of the system’s
boot drive. Both tests yield a proprietary numeric score;
higher numbers are better.
The Yoga 9i held a fairly comfortable lead in PCMark
10, with more separation from the competition than
we’ve seen in most recent reviews. This margin won’t
add up to a world of difference, but the Lenovo proved
demonstrably quicker at everyday tasks than its already
fast peers, so you’ll rarely if ever see much slowdown
from multitasking. As for PCMark 8, all of these SSDs
are more or less equally snappy, ensuring speedy boot
and load times.
Next is Maxon’s CPU-crunching Cinebench R15 test,
which is fully threaded to make use of all available
processor cores and threads. Cinebench stresses the
CPU rather than the GPU to render a complex image.
The result is a proprietary score indicating a PC’s
suitability for processor-intensive workloads.
If our
Best Buy
configuration
doesn’t catch
your eye,
you can
custom-tailor
a Yoga 9i at
Lenovo’s site.