Compaq Presario 900 1500+: The Radeon IGP Goes Mobile

Performance - Unreal Tournament 2003 (DM-Asbestos)

Unreal Tournament 2003 (DM-Asbestos) 640x480x32 Medium Detail Settings Compaq Presario 900 1500+ ECS i-Buddie XP 1500+ 37.4 0 | 0 | 7 | 15 | 22 | 30 | 37 | 45

Asbestos is typically a more CPU intensive level of Unreal Tournament 2003. This gave the Radeon IGP 320M a break and provided for more reasonable framerates when compared to the Antalus level. In fact, the 37.4 FPS that the Compaq Presario 900 1500+ got at 640x480x32 with medium detail settings is actually a playable framerate. Therefore, not all hope is lost for those looking to do some low resolution next generation gaming on an integrated video solution.

Unreal Tournament 2003 (DM-Asbestos) 800x600x32 Medium Detail Settings Compaq Presario 900 1500+ ECS i-Buddie XP 1500+ 33.0 0 | 0 | 7 | 13 | 20 | 26 | 33 | 40

Increasing the resolution to 800x600x32 really only cost 13% in performance. The Radeon IGP 320M was able to still maintain an above 30 FPS score and had the advantage of actually being able to run the game (compared to the SiS 740 solution).

Unreal Tournament 2003 (DM-Asbestos) 1024x768x32 Medium Detail Settings Compaq Presario 900 1500+ ECS i-Buddie XP 1500+ 28.0 0 | 0 | 6 | 11 | 17 | 22 | 28 | 34

Performance drops 18% when moving from 800x600x32 to 1024x768x32. At this point, the benchmark was reaching unplayable levels once again.