Source: Tom's Guide US | Keywords: a, new, notebook, hosts, the, athlon64 | Themes: Business Notebooks
- 1. 64 Bit Power In A Notebook: Mobile Athlon64 3000+
- 2. The Mobile Athlon64 Lined Up Against The Desktop Athlon64 And The Competition
- 3. Two Names For The Same Technology: PowerNow And Cool & Quiet
- 4. Two Names For The Same Technology: PowerNow And Cool & Quiet, Continued
- 5. A Large L2 Cache Isn't All Roses
- 6. Test Setup: Yakumo Q8M Power64 XD
- 7. The Yakumo Q8M Power64 XD In Images
- 8. Benchmarks
- 9. For Reference: Dell Inspiron 8600
- 10. Synthetic Benchmarks
- 11. SisoftSandra 2003 Max3, Continued
- 12. Multimedia Performance: PC Mark 2002
- 13. Application Benchmarks
- 14. Raytracing: POV-Ray For Windows
- 15. System Performance: Sysmark 2002
- 16. Battery Tests
- 17. Games Performance
- 18. DirectX 8: Unreal Tournament 2003
- 19. OpenGL: Quake III Team Arena
- 20. DirectX9: Aquamark 3
- 21. DirectX 8: Splintercell
- 22. Is 800 MHz Enough To Play On?
- 23. Conclusion
- 24. More on this topic
10. Synthetic Benchmarks
SisoftSandra 2003 Max3
The results of the CPU benchmark when operating from the mains caused quite an upset. For example, the CPU should always deliver practically the same performance regardless of the power scheme selected (Always On/Portable Laptop). This doesn't apply to the Q8M Power64 XD. Obviously the PowerNow function offered by the Mobile Athlon64 was not properly installed in the device by the barebone's maker.
The Yakumo gives away a deal of memory performance, as highlighted by the memory benchmark. While the device delivered a maximum memory bandwidth of 1.9 GB/s, fully in line with the Athlon64 using a DDR266/PC2100 memory module, as reference to a test with DDR400/PC3200 modules showed, 2.5 GB/s and more would be possible - "and more" because the DDR400 module is only recognized as a DDR333.
DDR400 modules are not correctly recognized.
If the BIOS could faultlessly spot a fast DDR400 memory, 3.1 GB/s would be applicable. However, only 60% of available memory bandwidth is used. sixty% percent
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