Halo Performance

We only had benchmarks at 1600x1200 here, and the desktop parts seem to perform better here. Of course the Go 6800 is definitely not a poor performer at high res. When we ran 1280x1024 numbers, we saw 70.7 frames per second.

Halo also ran well on the XPS at higher resolutions.

Halo Performance


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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.

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