Dothan Benchmarks

[Pabster]

Here's my new Inspiron 9300 results.

Use CrystalMark 2004 and post yours. Note the resolution I'm running 😀

Dothan 1.86 Results

Would really like some Turion results for comparison.

 

[RobsTV]

Looks like my old outdated i9200 still has some fight left in it:

http://crystalmark.info/CrystalMark/09en/ranking.php?ID=37960

65933 running all stock Dell drivers at defaults, and 1.8Ghz old 400MHz Dothan, with old 855 chipset, and old DDR memory. 😀

The video card makes all the difference.
Hopefully this will help put to rest the myth that many i6000d owners try to say that the x300 performs as well as the mr9700. Doubt it.

 

[Pabster]

Nice score...

But you are running 1400x900x32. I was running 1920x1200x32 😀

I'm not a gamer and I could care less about the graphics.

 

[fbrdphreak]

First, when people generally run common benchmarks they use 1024x768 as a common ground for graphics related tests.
Second, no the X300 is not more powerful than the MR9700. It is about on par with an MR9600; keep in mind though, that the 9700 is just an OCed 9600. No extra pipelines or shaders, just more MHz.

 

[RobsTV]

My reply was not to be taken seriously.
I think both did test at our default native resolutions.
Just goes to show how meaningless benchmarks are.
One person has a system with totally different setup than the other, so totally different results.
Sure, to compare machines exact same specs need to be compared.
But in reality, you should compare as you use them.

Instead of saying:
"But you are running 1400x900x32. I was running 1920x1200x32 "
we should be saying:
"Both systems tested in the same way they are used everyday"
One person doesn't game. One person can't stand higher than 1440x900 due too eyes.
No one is wrong. Higher score means nothing.
The one that is better is the one that suites your needs best, not the one that scores highest.

If the above, if we were offered to trade laptops, I'm sure both of us would laugh and so no way.

 

[fbrdphreak]

Hehe, all good points. I wasn't meaning that either of you considered those scores equal, just pointing it out 🙂

 

[Pabster]

Originally posted by: RobsTV
If the above, if we were offered to trade laptops, I'm sure both of us would laugh and so no way.

Ha Ha Ha 😀 😛

I understand your point. 🙂

Perhaps I should have specified that I was interested in only the performance tests (ALU/FPU/RAM) that is really the only 3 that I'm interested in. I could care less if I scored 1000 or 100000 on the graphics tests.

Looking at just the first 3 tests we are very close.