Comparative Performance - General, 3D and Multimedia
Starting out with a look at general application performance, we can expect the primary factor to be the processor speed in most of these tests. A few might tax the graphics card a bit (PCMark05) and hard drive performance can also play a factor, but the processor is going to be doing the lion's share of the work.
As expected, the Dell XPS M1710 comes out on top in all of these benchmarks. It has the fastest processor, graphics card, and hard drive so we would have been shocked if the results had been other than what we see here. The 21% Bin-3 overclock setting merely increases the performance gap. Plenty of other companies should be able to match the performance of the XPS M1710 by offering similar configurations, but unless they also offer overclock options they won't be able to match the maximum performance that Dell currently offers. Of course, Dell offers no guarantee that you can actually run their laptop with full stability at the various overclock settings, but as stated during testing we never encountered any difficulties even when running our most strenuous test scenarios.
Starting out with a look at general application performance, we can expect the primary factor to be the processor speed in most of these tests. A few might tax the graphics card a bit (PCMark05) and hard drive performance can also play a factor, but the processor is going to be doing the lion's share of the work.
As expected, the Dell XPS M1710 comes out on top in all of these benchmarks. It has the fastest processor, graphics card, and hard drive so we would have been shocked if the results had been other than what we see here. The 21% Bin-3 overclock setting merely increases the performance gap. Plenty of other companies should be able to match the performance of the XPS M1710 by offering similar configurations, but unless they also offer overclock options they won't be able to match the maximum performance that Dell currently offers. Of course, Dell offers no guarantee that you can actually run their laptop with full stability at the various overclock settings, but as stated during testing we never encountered any difficulties even when running our most strenuous test scenarios.
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Gary Key - Tuesday, May 8, 2007 - link
It is a typo on the chart. The numbers reflected are the total score, not the individual break out on FPS.
JarredWalton - Tuesday, May 8, 2007 - link
Fixed. SupCom is a generated score from the perftest map (with an edited benchmark script). Sorry about that.yacoub - Tuesday, May 8, 2007 - link
what?Article says:
"We weren't able to run our latest gaming benchmarks (S.T.A.L.K.E.R. and Supreme Commander) on all of the laptops, so performance results for those games won't be included here."
JarredWalton - Tuesday, May 8, 2007 - link
The XPS M1710 OC scaling charts included SupCom and STALKER results. Just not the other laptops (although I might be able to run the benchmarks on a couple laptops still).yacoub - Tuesday, May 8, 2007 - link
I gave up on waiting for laptops to reach reasonable prices. Ordered a nice c2d setup to replace my aging A64 rig and did it for under $425. CPU, RAM, and Mobo. My 7900GT is still enough for now, but when the 8800GTS 640MB hits $350 without rebates I'll probably scoop one of those up too. So still under $800 for a full system upgrade.And since I can remote in to my home machine from work and my work machine from home, I really have little need for a laptop, though I do have a company-provided laptop for travel if I really needed to use it. On that flash games (tower defense, etc) are enough to keep me entertained if I'm that desperate to sit in a hotel room(?!). Most likely an mp3 player or a book is all I need in-flight and I'll be out doing things (business or tourist related) when I'm traveling so uber high-end gaming laptops at exorbitant prices just don't really have a use for me, or I'd imagine for most folks.
Ender17 - Tuesday, May 8, 2007 - link
The graphs would be a lot easier to read if they were labeled with the actual CPU speed instead of Bin 1, Bin 2...redbone75 - Tuesday, May 8, 2007 - link
Agreed. Just as easy to put 2.33 - 3.16 as it is to do Bin-0 - Bin-5. Actually, you save a character :)JarredWalton - Tuesday, May 8, 2007 - link
Given that the clock speeds are more of a request than an actual result, I didn't want to use those. I couldn't actually see if throttling was occurring during the game benchmarks, but the scores seem to indicate that the CPU was throttling at the Bin-4 and Bin-5 results on some games.The names I used came from discussions with Dell, where they referred to the clock speeds as "Bin + 3", but I used a plus sign instead. Given that the scores are all pretty close on many benchmarks, I didn't think too much about it.
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