Doom 3 Performance

At just under 30fps, Doom 3 is just to the wrong side of playable for most gamers. Of course, a platform like this will likely be used for gaming as a secondary function. It may be that the very casual gamer just wants to see the latest and greatest eye candy at a merely passable frame rate. Dropping from our High Quality setting down to Medium will improve performance to a comfortable level while only mildly decreasing the image quality.

Doom 3 Performance

Enabling AA is not a playable option for the X700 line at 1280x1024. At 10x7 with AA enabled, we only see 22fps. It’s definitely a better option to leave the AA setting off and go with 1280x1024 at Medium Quality for Doom 3 under the Mobility Radeon X700.

Doom 3 Performance


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  • Hikari - Wednesday, March 2, 2005 - link

    This is something like 2x as fast as the 9700 mobility, get real. It is pretty much the equivalent of a 9700 pro desktop part, however.
  • randomman - Tuesday, March 1, 2005 - link

    I realize that it would not be an exact comparison, but could you add some old benchies from the 9700 Mobility and 9800 M. This would give a better point of comparison than just against a desktop sys.
    Also are there any things available talking about the differences in power optimizations between the old 9700 and the X700?
  • Guspaz - Tuesday, March 1, 2005 - link

    Is there much point to the review of of a notebook graphics chip that has NO comparison to any other mobile graphics chips?

    Personally I find the benchmarks in this review totally useless.
  • Jep4444 - Tuesday, March 1, 2005 - link

    the big selling feature of this over the mobile 9700 is that it provides better battery life, it is also a more powerful chip than the mobile 9700
  • onix - Tuesday, March 1, 2005 - link

    How do we think graphics chip on this computer will compare to the Thinkpad T43p's ATI Mobility FIRE GL V3200 (128 MB)?
  • bobsmith1492 - Tuesday, March 1, 2005 - link

    Yeah, I play Doom 3 on medium, 1280x1024; runs pretty well. Same processor too; P-M, but with regular DDR, OCd to 2.125.
  • trikster2 - Tuesday, March 1, 2005 - link

    #6

    This is the same as the 9700 mobility????

    Blech.

    This is what we have been waiting for?

  • arfan - Tuesday, March 1, 2005 - link

    where is the pictures?
  • bobsmith1492 - Tuesday, March 1, 2005 - link

    So, basically this performs about the same as my 9700 mobility. Yay.
  • L3p3rM355i4h - Tuesday, March 1, 2005 - link

    ho hum...how much does this thing weigh? Surely not as much as that brick XPS.

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