Voodoo Envy M:855 Part 1 - Athlon 64 DTR and Mobility Radeon 9600 Pro
by Andrew Ku on November 4, 2003 5:45 PM EST- Posted in
- Laptops
Gun Metal IQ - 2xAA/No AF
Click to enlarge.
Click to enlarge.
Gun Metal doesn’t employ pixel shader 2.0, rather vertex shader 2.0. The image quality between the two systems was very compatible. However, the Dell Inspiron 8600 with GeForce FX Go5650 was noticeably slower than the Voodoo Envy M:855 with Mobility Radeon 9600 Pro. There wasn’t much jerkiness noticed in this benchmark, but the GeForce FX Go5650 did take more time to complete a benchmark run.
Click to enlarge.
We found an interesting glitch with ATI hardware in this benchmark, which is why we switched to Benchmark 2 for the 1280x1024 benchmark runs. The problem only seemed to appear in the 1280x1024 resolution in Benchmark 1, and seems to a glitch in the benchmark. We played the level used in Benchmark 1 with the full version of Gun Metal, and it ran fine.
Facebook
Twitter
RSS
24 Comments
View All Comments
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.