Benchmarks : Graphics Boost: Dell Inspiron 8600 Gets ATI MR 9600 Turbo

Benchmarks

By Harald Thon, published on April 21, 2004
Source: Tom's Guide US | Keywords: graphics, boost

Contents

7. Benchmarks

Driver & Software
Graphics Driver	MOBILITY RADEON 9600 Pro Turbo 6.14.10.6392 (Dell Inspiron 8600 ATI) MOBILITY RADEON 9600 6.14.0010.6378 (Yakumo Q8M) 6.14.0010.6396 (Asus M6800N) GeForce FX Go5650 6.14.0010.4482 (Dell Inspiton 8600 Nvidia) MOBILITY RADEON 9700 6.14.10.6396 (Blackbox M11)
DirectX	Version: 9.0b (4.09.0000.0902)
OS	Windows XP Pro, Build 2600 SP1 (2600.xpsp2.030422-1633)
Benchmarks & Settings
Sysmark 2002	Version 1.0
MobileMark2002	Version 1.0
Quake III Team Arena	THG3.dem, command line = +set cd_nocd 1 +set s_initsound 0Graphics detail = High Quality
Halo Ver. 1.0.2.581 /Combat Evolved	Timedemo Pixelshader 2.0 Settings
UT2003 Ver.2225	Antalus Flyby Demo/Inferno Demo
Aquamark 3	Timedemo
Splintercell EMEA	1_1_1 Tibilis Demo

We wanted to investigate two things in this review: For one, we were interested in the difference in gaming performance between the Inspiron 8600 with NVIDIA's GeForce FX Go5650 and ATI's Mobility Radeon 9600 Pro Turbo. For another, we wanted to find out how differently the Inspiron 8600 performs compared to a similarly equipped desktop system.

As in previous tests , we used a desktop system equipped with various graphics cards for comparison.

System
Motherboard	ASUS P4P800 Deluxe, Intel i865PE chipset
CPU	Intel Pentium 2.4 GHz (FSB800)
RAM	4x 256 MB Corsair CMX256A-3200LL Moderate Timings: CL3 / 8-3-3
Graphics card 1	Ati Radeon 9600XT(500MHz/300MHZ DDR)
Graphics card 2	Ati Radeon 9600(325MHz/200MHZ DDR)
Graphics card 3	Geforce FX 5700 Ultra (475MHz/ 450MHz DDR)
Drivers & Settings
Desktop	"ATI Catalyst 4.1NVIDIA Detonator FX v53.03"
Chipset driver	Intel Ver. 5.00.1012
DirectX Version	9.0b
OS	Windows XP Professional SP1

Additionally, the results from several notebooks tested by THG in the past serve as further points of comparison. The hardware and features of these devices can be found above in the section "The test system in figures ...".