11. Application Benchmarks

Raytracing: POV-Ray For Windows

For this benchmark we perform rendering with Raytracer Pov-Ray: we use the scene chess2 with a resolution of 640 x 480 pixels and an anti-aliasing value of 0.3. There is no difference between the machines here. The performance difference under the "maximum battery" power scheme is caused by the different CPU speed (PCG-NVR23: 400MHz; Evo N1015v: 533MHz).

A P4 m running at 2.2 GHz needs ten seconds longer to complete this task under AC power, and Intel's current flagship model, the 1.6 GHz Pentium-M (Banias) is just twenty seconds faster, though it is considerably more expensive than a mobile Athlon XP.

MP3 Encoding: Lame

There are no discernible differences between the machines.

The figures in "maximum battery" mode show how important a high CPU speed is in this discipline. Although the mobile Athlon XP 1800+ is running just over 133MHz faster, this impacts the encoding time tremendously.

Intel's flagship, the 1.6 GHz Pentium-M , carries out this task approximately half a minute faster.