By
Harald Thon,
published on December 16, 2003
Source: Tom's Guide US | Keywords: a, new, notebook, hosts, the, athlon64 | Themes: Business Notebooks
Source: Tom's Guide US | Keywords: a, new, notebook, hosts, the, athlon64 | Themes: Business Notebooks
Contents
- 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
11. SisoftSandra 2003 Max3, Continued
The Inspiron 8600 achieves a bandwidth of up to 2.5 GB/s, thus coming close to the theoretical limit of DDR333 memory (2.7 GB/s).
The benchmark results in battery operation are even more cause for surprise. Obviously the CPU always runs at the lowest speed (800 MHz), regardless of the energy scheme selected (Always On/Max Battery/Portable Laptop). The Pentium-M in the Inspiron 8600, meanwhile, behaves as it should. If more power is required, it speeds up - unless you've forced the lowest clock speed of 600 MHz by selecting this power scheme.
The lower CPU speed of 800 MHz in battery operation does not impinge on memory bandwidth.
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