Gun Metal Performance

As we move up to higher resolutions and higher AA and AF settings, the margin between the two mobile graphic solutions dramatically decreases. At 1280x1024 4xAA/8xAF, the margin between the two drops abruptly to 3.2%. Though, the fact that Gun Metal doesn’t use pixel shader 2.0, translates to a scenario very different than what we have seen with Half-Life 2 and other titles that employ PS2.0 shaders.

AquaMark3 IQ – 4xAA/8xAF Gun Metal IQ - 2xAA/No AF
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  • Madcat207 - Tuesday, November 4, 2003 - link

    No offence, but bad review.

    The Voodoo was put up against no real competition, so of course it won. Why did anandtech not bother with getting a Sager 5680 or 8890 to compare with, since those are P4 machines with real 9600 pros....
  • TheInvincibleMustard - Tuesday, November 4, 2003 - link

    1) Is it hard to have the product in question (ie, the one being reviewed) highlighted in some way on the graphs? It can't be that hard to do the bar in red or whatever. Granted, when comparing the M10 to the Go5650, there's not as much sense, but when comparing 10 or so CPU's it'd sure be nice to quickly identify what stands where.

    2) Should the X2 performance scores with 4xAA/8xAF be taken with a grain of salt? Why does the M10 increase approx 25% going from 1024x768 to 1280x1024 ... ?
  • Adul - Tuesday, November 4, 2003 - link

    The battery life performance will come in part 2 of this review.
  • AlexWade - Tuesday, November 4, 2003 - link

    Deat AT:

    What is the battery life on this notebook? I but notebooks based on battery life, not performence.

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