Unreal Tournament 2004

Unfortunately, Unreal is very limited by the 2.13GHz Dothan. Performance without AA/AF was steady at about 57 frames per second. We even saw 57fps at 1920x1200 (the system's native resolution) with no AA/AF. And yes, we triple checked the vsync and UT2004.ini settings.

Enabling AA/AF dropped performance only at higher resolutions as well. We even saw playable frame rates at 1920x1200 with AA/AF (about 40 frames per second).

Unreal Tournament 2004 Performance


Unreal Tournament 2004 Performance


Unreal Tournament 2004 Performance


Unreal Tournament 2004 Performance


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  • dougSF30 - Thursday, February 24, 2005 - link

    Different nVidia drivers? That's kinda bad, methodology-wise.
  • JustAnAverageGuy - Thursday, February 24, 2005 - link

    It's too bad we don't get to see pictures of the laptop :)

    Even if it was a video card review.
  • ElFenix - Thursday, February 24, 2005 - link

    #5
    the audigy is an external USB unit
  • bob661 - Thursday, February 24, 2005 - link

    #5
    The CPU offered in this laptop is a Pentium M.
  • SLIM - Thursday, February 24, 2005 - link

    I could be wrong, but I'd bet the picture would look a little different if all the cards were using the same drivers. The difference between 69.xx and 75.xx drivers for recent dx9 games could be significant.
  • Cygni - Thursday, February 24, 2005 - link

    Its a shame Dell didnt give more time with the system, it would have been really interesting to probe the Alviso platform in all of its glory and compare against current systems... especially in the arena of the DDR2.
  • bamacre - Thursday, February 24, 2005 - link

    #10, not sure about the cpu, but the Dell XPS notebook does offer a 7200rpm hdd, I'd bet it was used in the test.
  • segagenesis - Thursday, February 24, 2005 - link

    If the max output is 65W assuming you have the laptop loaded 100% the entire time the standard battery (what is it? 70W/h?) would barely last an hour. Just... ok... I imagine you can get beffier batteries or use a second one.
  • sri2000 - Thursday, February 24, 2005 - link

    Referring to a couple of differences in the test machine specs:
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    Intel Pentium M 2.13GHz
    1GB DDR2 533 4-4-4-10

    AMD Athlon 64 4000+
    1GB OCZ DDR400 3-3-3-10
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    How much of a boost are we seeing from the use of DDR2533 RAM and from the highest clocked Pentium M to date?

    The PCMag review shows it with a 4200 RPM drive - the typical speed for most notebooks, but that should be slowing things down, in this test right?

    This review doesn't say if the test unit had an optional 7200RPM HD
  • defter - Thursday, February 24, 2005 - link

    "NVIDIA informed us that the TDP for the chassis is 65W."

    If we assume that Pentium M takes about 25W, this would leave 40W for system memory, chipset, hard drive, GPU and graphic memory. Wow, nVidia managed to pull miracle here. Gone are the days of 100W power consumption for high end Geforce 6800 cards.

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