GeForce Go 6800 Ultra: Powering the Dell Inspirion XPS Gen 2
by Derek Wilson on February 24, 2005 3:04 PM EST- Posted in
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Without AA, the performance of the Go 6800 Ultra falls between the 6800 GT and Ultra. This is very good when comparing a mobile part to desktop parts on a much more powerful computer.Pushing up the settings to include AA drops the performance of the Go 6800 to a level below that of the desktop 6800 GT. Performance is still very competitive, but at higher settings we would expect CPU to be less of a factor. It is possible that the power savings features of the Go are limiting it's ability to scale as well with settings. Unfortunately, we can't make any firm claims on this until we compare the parts in similar platforms.
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Regs - Thursday, February 24, 2005 - link
If im not mistaken, the only difference between the GT and Ultra are their clock speeds #7. These benchmarks are baffling. I'm having a hard time believing them. How on earth did they pull it out?Is this a prelude to what's to in the next generation of desk top cards? I'm think, if they can make a mobile card this fast, they should surely make a faster desk top counterpart with less heat, space, and power restraints.
Mingon - Thursday, February 24, 2005 - link
Odd how a 12pipe / 5 vs @ 450mhz can out pace a desktop 16pipe 6vs @425. What optimisations have been done? I can understand it beating a 6800gt due to greater vertex/pixel shading power (450 x 5 vs 350 x 6) but it shouldnt beat an ultra.Is the nv41m on 0.13 or 0.11um ? the die seems quite large any idea on transistor count?
pxc - Thursday, February 24, 2005 - link
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1769520,00.as... batterymark 2 hours 13 minutes with the P-M 2.13GHz, WiFi, 1GB and 80GB hard drive.The base price of the computer is $2249 with:
P-M 760 (2GHz)
512MB DDR2 dual channel
17" WUXGA (1920x1200)
256MB go 6800 Ultra
combo CD-RW/DVD-ROM
60GB HD
9 Cell battery (80WHr)
WinXP
etc
http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx...
It's about the cheapest go 6800 laptop, but it includes the fastest version.
total.ownage
bamacre - Thursday, February 24, 2005 - link
You can configure one now. $2745 for a well equiped system. Intenal Audigy, 6800 Go Ultra, 2.0Ghz P4 "760," cdrw/dvd drive, 1GB ddr2. Not bad for what it can do.Icehawk - Thursday, February 24, 2005 - link
Amazing, just a few years ago the idea of gaming on a laptop was laughable. Now you can get a DTR that can pretty much keep up with the latest desktops - wow!Not just battery life... but cost. This has got to be a $3k+ machine :(
seanp789 - Thursday, February 24, 2005 - link
For a laptop to come even come to close to desktop performance is simply amazing. so be on par with? Wow, just wow.they manage to do all this with a laptop battery and cooling?
I would really like to see that go card translate into a desktop part. It would make running SLI a little easier.
DerekWilson - Thursday, February 24, 2005 - link
We would too :-/We just didn't have time to perform any battery life or power tests as we had to spend all the time we had with the system benchmarking games.
dvinnen - Thursday, February 24, 2005 - link
I would love to see the battery life for this thing.