GeForce Go 6800 Ultra: Powering the Dell Inspirion XPS Gen 2
by Derek Wilson on February 24, 2005 3:04 PM EST- Posted in
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Unreal Tournament 2004
Unfortunately, Unreal is very limited by the 2.13GHz Dothan. Performance without AA/AF was steady at about 57 frames per second. We even saw 57fps at 1920x1200 (the system's native resolution) with no AA/AF. And yes, we triple checked the vsync and UT2004.ini settings.Enabling AA/AF dropped performance only at higher resolutions as well. We even saw playable frame rates at 1920x1200 with AA/AF (about 40 frames per second).
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Regs - Thursday, February 24, 2005 - link
If im not mistaken, the only difference between the GT and Ultra are their clock speeds #7. These benchmarks are baffling. I'm having a hard time believing them. How on earth did they pull it out?Is this a prelude to what's to in the next generation of desk top cards? I'm think, if they can make a mobile card this fast, they should surely make a faster desk top counterpart with less heat, space, and power restraints.
Mingon - Thursday, February 24, 2005 - link
Odd how a 12pipe / 5 vs @ 450mhz can out pace a desktop 16pipe 6vs @425. What optimisations have been done? I can understand it beating a 6800gt due to greater vertex/pixel shading power (450 x 5 vs 350 x 6) but it shouldnt beat an ultra.Is the nv41m on 0.13 or 0.11um ? the die seems quite large any idea on transistor count?
pxc - Thursday, February 24, 2005 - link
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1769520,00.as... batterymark 2 hours 13 minutes with the P-M 2.13GHz, WiFi, 1GB and 80GB hard drive.The base price of the computer is $2249 with:
P-M 760 (2GHz)
512MB DDR2 dual channel
17" WUXGA (1920x1200)
256MB go 6800 Ultra
combo CD-RW/DVD-ROM
60GB HD
9 Cell battery (80WHr)
WinXP
etc
http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx...
It's about the cheapest go 6800 laptop, but it includes the fastest version.
total.ownage
bamacre - Thursday, February 24, 2005 - link
You can configure one now. $2745 for a well equiped system. Intenal Audigy, 6800 Go Ultra, 2.0Ghz P4 "760," cdrw/dvd drive, 1GB ddr2. Not bad for what it can do.Icehawk - Thursday, February 24, 2005 - link
Amazing, just a few years ago the idea of gaming on a laptop was laughable. Now you can get a DTR that can pretty much keep up with the latest desktops - wow!Not just battery life... but cost. This has got to be a $3k+ machine :(
seanp789 - Thursday, February 24, 2005 - link
For a laptop to come even come to close to desktop performance is simply amazing. so be on par with? Wow, just wow.they manage to do all this with a laptop battery and cooling?
I would really like to see that go card translate into a desktop part. It would make running SLI a little easier.
DerekWilson - Thursday, February 24, 2005 - link
We would too :-/We just didn't have time to perform any battery life or power tests as we had to spend all the time we had with the system benchmarking games.
dvinnen - Thursday, February 24, 2005 - link
I would love to see the battery life for this thing.