20. Quake III Arena

This test is crying out for a Desktop vs. Notebook and a Notebook vs. Notebook comparison. All graphic benchmarks were performed on the ASUS L8400B notebook from our previous test and a desktop system with similar clock speed. Both the notebooks as well as the desktop were clocked with 100MHz FSB and 100MHz SDRAM.

Lets start with the notebook comparison.

The S3 Savage/MX of the ASUS L8400B reaches its limit with ~33frames, while the GeForce2Go clearly plays in a different league. At last year's CeBIT, the business notebooks debuted with the S3 chip. At the time, they offered the best graphics that you could get for a mobile. On the negative side, the OpenGL driver falls into software mode when Twinview is enabled.