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.