Source: Tom's Guide US | Keywords: two, middle, weight, gaming, notebooks | Themes: Laptops and Notebooks
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Alienware Area-51 M9750
- 3. Alien Dissection
- 4. Eurocom M570RU Divine-X
- 5. Eurocom's Inner Beauty
- 6. Display Characteristics
- 7. Benchmark Setup
- 8. Benchmark Results
- 9. F.E.A.R
- 10. Oblivion
- 11. Audio
- 12. Synthetics
- 13. PC Mark 2005
- 14. SiSoft Sandra
- 15. Performance Summary
- 16. Value Analysis
- 17. Conclusion
- 18. More on this topic
15. Performance Summary
The Alienware Area-51 m9750 and Eurocom M570RU Divine-X notebooks are primarily portable gaming systems, so let’s start off by comparing average game performance. Dividing the highest average frame rate by the lowest gives the slower machine a score of one (100%).
A huge average lead of 68% in F.E.A.R, and a smaller average lead in Doom 3, shows the Alienware Area-51 SLI system nearly 50% faster on average in games.
Applications benefit mostly from CPU and RAM performance. The Alienware Area-51 m9750 has a slightly faster processor, but with lower front-side-bus and memory speeds. How close will the two machines get?
OGG leads off with the Area-51 m9750 ahead of the M570RU Divine-X by a meager 6%. With 3D Studio Max giving the faster system an even smaller 1% lead, the overall application difference is only 4%.
3D mark 2005 is almost purely graphics-processor driven, while Sandra has a few memory-dependant applications. Alienware’s SLI advantage is most easily seen when graphics processing is involved.
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