Source: Tom's Guide | Keywords: Toshiba, A9, notebook | Themes: Business Notebooks, Laptops and Notebooks, Business
6. Benchmark Results
PC Mark 2005
The synthetic benchmarks from Futuremark are intended to measure the Tecra A9’s overall performance. The notebook’s hard drive performance is intriguing as well.
3DMark 2006
This is another synthetic benchmark that measures the notebook’s graphics performance.
Cinebench R10
The Cinebench tests the rendering performance of the processor, first using only one core, then using all cores.
Windows Experience Index
The Windows Experience Index is a purely synthetic benchmark integrated in Windows Vista. It’s designed to give the user information about the performance of single subsystems and locate system slowdowns.
| Subsystem | Result |
|---|---|
| Processor | 4,9 |
| Memory (RAM) | 4,8 |
| Graphics | 3,5 |
| Graphics (Games) | 3,5 |
| Primary Hard Drive | 5,2 |
WinRAR
The WinRAR test compresses a folder with a batch program and measures how long the process takes.
| Notebook | Time (Seconds) |
|---|---|
| Toshiba Tecra A9 | 233 |
HD Playback
In this test we played back a scene from the movie Casino Royale in Blu-ray format from the notebook’s hard drive using Cyberlinks PowerDVD 7 to measure the average processor load.
| Notebook | CPU Load |
|---|---|
| Toshiba Tecra A9 | 56.54% (Dual Core) |
AVG Anti-Virus
This test measures the time it takes to scan a folder with AVG in CPUs and motherboards.
| Notebook | Time (Seconds) |
|---|---|
| Toshiba Tecra A9 | 543 |
PDF Creation
Here we measured the time it took to convert a 115-page PowerPoint presentation to a PDF file with help from Adobe Acrobat Professional 7.
| Notebook | Time (Seconds) |
|---|---|
| Toshiba Tecra A9 | 202 |
Video Transcoding
We used TMPEG to convert an MPEG file to DIVX and XVID.
| Notebook | XVID (min:sec) | DIVX (min:sec) |
|---|---|---|
| Toshiba Tecra A9 | 07:58 | 05:05 |
iTunes Transcoding
In this test iTunes 6.6 converts a WAV file to AAC.
| Notebook | Time (min:sec) |
|---|---|
| Toshiba Tecra A9 | 02:26 |
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