Performance - Unreal Tournament 2003
Unreal
Tournament 2003 Flyby
800x600x32 |
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0 |
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25 |
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51 |
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76 |
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101 |
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127 |
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152 |
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Since all the notebook systems here are based on the Mobility Radeon 9000 graphics
card with 64MB of DDR memory, the differences in speed can mostly be attributed
to driver build and processor speed. At 800x600x32 it makes sense that the Hypersonic
system ranks atop the performance charts because of its 3.06GHz processor. What
may be a bit confusing is how the performance of the 2.0GHz Dell Inspiron 8200
is above that of the 2.8GHz Sager NP8886 notebook. This is can almost certainly
be attributed to driver optimizations. As we discussed in the Hypersonic
review, notebook vendors must work with graphic chip vendors to produce
driver builds specific to their individual notebook. The Dell system we tested
used a more recent driver build than that used in the NP8886. Because Unreal
Tournament 2003 is extremely demanding on the video system, CPU differences
are not as prominent as video differences. We fully expect that a more recent
driver build would put the performance of the NP8886 above that of the Dell
system.
Unreal
Tournament 2003 Flyby
1024x768x32 |
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0 |
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17 |
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34 |
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51 |
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68 |
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85 |
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102 |
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The same logic can be used to explain the performance of the systems at 1024x768x32.
Here all three notebooks tested perform almost identically due to the stress
on the video system, with the difference between the fastest and the slowest
measuring only 6%.
Unreal
Tournament 2003 Flyby
1280x1024x32 |
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0 |
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14 |
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28 |
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42 |
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56 |
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70 |
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8 |
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As the resolution is increased the performance differences between the notebooks
remain the same. About 6% separates the fastest notebook from the slowest under
the stress of Unreal Tournament 2003.
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