Source: Tom's Guide US | Keywords: are, you, ready, for, hp | Themes: Business Notebooks
- 1. Who Needs A Mobile Workstation?
- 2. Stable Case And Optional Second Battery
- 3. Clearly Labeled Ports
- 4. Docking Station And Easy Memory Upgrade
- 5. Screen: Good Brightness And Contrast
- 6. Screen: Good Brightness And Contrast, Continued
- 7. Keyboard, Mouse And Speakers
- 8. Wireless Connections
- 9. Hard Disk And Optical Drive
- 10. The NW8240 Compared To Standard Mobile Computers
- 11. Benchmark Tests
- 12. Battery Time: MobileMark 2005
- 13. Battery Time: MobileMark 2005, Continued
- 14. Office Applications: SYSmark 2004 SE
- 15. Office Applications: SYSmark 2004 SE, Continued
- 16. PCMark05
- 17. 3DMark05
- 18. Open GL Workstation Performance
- 19. Viewperf 8.1 (Synthetic), Continued
- 20. 3D Studio Max 7 (Application)
- 21. Conclusions
- 22. More on this topic
17. 3DMark05
3DMark05 - Conclusions
It is in this area that we see the Compaq NW8240 fully live up to its potential. As said at the outset, the ATi Mobility FireGL V5000 is based on the core of the Mobility Radeon X700, which has 8 pixel pipelines and 6 freely programmable vertex shaders. In contrast, the Mobility Radeon X600 has 4 rendering and 2 vertex engines. Furthermore, the memory interface of the ATi Mobility FireGL V5000 is designed for dual-channel operation, which provides an additional performance boost. Though laptops equipped with a Mobility Radeon X300 GPU also have 4 rendering and 2 vertex engines, their memory interface does not support two-channel operation and is only 64 bits wide.
Thus, HP's mobile workstation stands out as the clear winner in this discipline.
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