3DMark Results - Gateway P-7808u: to Quad or Not to Quad?

3DMark Results

Next, we ran the ubiquitous 3DMark benchmarks from Futuremark. Performance in these tools mirrors some game engines, but ultimately they are a measure of 3DMark performance and not of games. We would place more weight on the previous page, but these utilities do provide an easy way of comparing systems if you don't want to get bogged down in details. In order to make the comparisons valid, we run all 3DMark tests at the standard resolution: 1024x768 for 03/05 and 1280x1024 for 06/Vantage. Some laptops like the Gateway P-7808u are unable to support the necessary resolution 1280x1024 resolution, in which case we connect an external LCD.

Note that we colored the Alienware m15x gold for tests conducted utilizing the integrated X3100 graphics instead of the discrete 8800M GTX. We will follow that pattern on the battery life tests, where we can see the true benefits of being able to switch off the discrete graphics and run on an IGP solution.

Driver updates have not had as much of an impact on 3DMark performance, so in 3DMark03/05 the P-7808u drops a bit further down the list. 3DMark06 and Vantage on the other hand provide a composite score that includes CPU performance, and a quad-core Q9000 definitely helps those benchmarks. 3DMark Vantage also benefits more from driver updates, so the indicated performance advantage over the P-7811 and the m15x is exaggerated.

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