Source: Tom's Guide US | Keywords: a, light, notebook, for, a, light, pocketbook | Themes: Business Notebooks
- 1. Averatec: Newcomer To The Notebook Market
- 2. A Brief Run-Down: The Low Voltage Version Of The Athlon-XP-M
- 3. A Brief Run-Down: The Low Voltage Version Of The Athlon-XP-M, Continued
- 4. Overview Of The Test Configuration
- 5. The Averatec 3150P From The Outside
- 6. ...from The Bottom And From The Inside
- 7. ...from The Bottom And From The Inside, Continued
- 8. Benchmarks Under Windows XP
- 9. Synthetic Benchmarks
- 10. SiSoft Sandra 2002, Continued
15. 3D Performance
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All three systems have a graphics core integrated in the Northbridge. With the Averatec machine and the Lifebook S2010, you can tell the BIOS how much video RAM you want (Averatec maximum 32 MB; Lifebook S2010 maximum 128 MB). The Lifebook S6120, on the other hand, allocates its video RAM dynamically. Intel calls this method Dynamic Video Memory Technology (DVMT). It's basically an expanded UMA in which the graphics driver responds to system and application demands for video RAM, modifying video memory to meet current requirements dynamically and automatically. The maximum size your video memory can be depends on the total size of your system memory. For 255 MB and less of system RAM, you can allocate up to 32 MB to video; starting at 256 MB, you can increase this allotment to as much as 64 MB.
Direct 3D Performance: 3D Mark 2001 SE
Due to the different video memory sizes and the different system-RAM configurations, it's quite tricky to compare the 3D performance for all the systems.
However, the measurements clearly prove that the "Intel solution" is the Speedy Gonzalez of the bunch. Even when we set the maximum video memory allocation to 32 MB, the Prosavage8 core in the Averatec 3150P still got the pants beat off of it by the ATi implementation with only 16 MB video RAM (Lifebook S2010).
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