Performance - Unreal Tournament 2003

Unreal Tournament 2003 Flyby
800x600x32
Desktop 3.06GHz (512MB)

Hypersonic Sonic Aviator 3.06GHz 512MB

Dell Inspiron 8200 2.0GHz (Mobility Radeon 9000)

126.7

110.5

106.4

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0
|
25
|
51
|
76
|
101
|
127
|
152

We have only been running the final benchmark of Unreal Tournament 2003 in mobile reviews for one review thus far, so we are only able to compare the Mobility Radeon 9000 in the Hypersonic Sonic Aviator to the Mobility Radeon 9000 in the Dell Inspiron 8200 and a desktop Radeon 9000 Pro. At 800x600x32, the Hypersonic system at 3.06GHz ran 4% faster than the Dell system at 2.0GHz; a fairly negligible performance boost offered by the faster processor, indicating that the Mobility Radeon 9000 acts as the bottleneck in Unreal Tournament 2003 while paired with fast processors such as these.

As suspected the desktop computer based on the higher clocked Radeon 9000 Pro outperformed the notebook systems. The Sonic Aviator fell 15% behind the desktop.

Unreal Tournament 2003 Flyby
1024x768x32
Desktop 3.06GHz (512MB)

Hypersonic Sonic Aviator 3.06GHz 512MB

Dell Inspiron 8200 2.0GHz (Mobility Radeon 9000)

85.0

74.0

71.9

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0
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17
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34
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51
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68
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85
|
102

Bumping the resolution up to 1024x768x32 decreases the performance lead of the Hypersonic Sonic Aviator to 3% but still leaves it performing comfortably at over 60 frames per second. The lead offered by the desktop remains at 15%.

Unreal Tournament 2003 Flyby
1280x960x32
Desktop 3.06GHz (512MB)

Hypersonic Sonic Aviator 3.06GHz 512MB

Dell Inspiron 8200 2.0GHz (Mobility Radeon 9000)

69.9

48.4

46.4

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0
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14
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28
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42
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56
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70
|
8

The performance advantage offered by the Hypersonic Sonic Aviator over the Dell Inspiron 8200 fluctuates up to 4% at 1280x960x32. Again, we are not seeing huge performance increases offered by the extra 1.06GHz that the Sonic Aviator brings to the table because the systems are video card limited. On the desktop side, the lead offered by the Radeon 9000 Pro grows to a large 44% thanks to the fact that the video chips are getting quite a work out at this high resolution in such a stressful game.

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