Team Fortress 2
Team Fortress 2 is a multiplayer first-person shooter game developed and published by Valve. The game received acclaim for its art direction, gameplay, humor, and use of character in a multiplayer-only game.
For many Mini PCs with integrated graphics, Team Fortress 2 can be taxing. For example, with the onboard graphics of the i5-10400, we saw the machine produce a credible frames per second but things like particle effects and such like do drop the frame rate.
On the FIREBAT we managed around 75 FPS at 1920×1080 resolution, but again when the action hots up, FPS can really tank.
DOTA 2
DOTA 2 is a popular free game available for Linux. This action/strategy game is touted as the most-played game on Steam. This game is extremely graphical intensive and really needs a dedicated graphics card. Many machines with onboard graphics struggle with this game.
The FIREBAT struggles with DOTA 2. Yes, it can muster over 76 FPS with the fastest settings at 1920×1080. But with the best looking settings the game is unplayable with the FIREBAT barely reaching 20 FPS. Contrast that with the NUC’s Iris Xe graphics which gets over 55 FPS.
The FIREBAT’s performance is about on pair with the onboard graphics of the i5-10400.
Summary
The FIREBAT is definitely not a gaming mini PC. Its performance is acceptable on very basic games only. Compared to the Intel NUC Mini PC Xe’s graphics, the FIREBAT’s reduced Xe really shows its limitations.
There’s little point in testing more advanced games on the FIREBAT. If you want to play games, it’s impossible to recommend the FIREBAT.
Pages in this article:
Page 1 – SuperTuxKart
Page 2 – Retrocycles
Page 3 – Team Fortress 2 / DOTA 2 / Summary
Complete list of articles in this series:
| FIREBAT T8 Plus Mini PC | |
|---|---|
| Part 1 | Introduction to the series with an interrogation of the system |
| Part 2 | Benchmarking the FIREBAT T8 Plus Mini PC |
| Part 3 | Testing the power consumption |
| Part 4 | Multimedia: Watching videos and listening to music |
| Part 5 | How does the FIREBAT fare as a gaming PC? |
| Part 6 | Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 |
| Part 7 | Installing and Configuring EndeavourOS, an Arch-based distro |
| Part 8 | Installing and Configuring Rhino Linux, a rolling release Ubuntu-based distro |
| Part 9 | VirtualBox performance on the FIREBAT |
So the FIREBAT is rubbish at gaming!
Well it’s definitely not a gaming machine as portrayed in the marketing, but then again I knew that was the case given the cut-down Xe onboard graphics.