Compaq Presario 900 1500+: The Radeon IGP Goes Mobile

Performance - Serious Sam: The Second Encounter

Serious Sam: The Second Encounter Default Quality 640x480x32 ECS i-Buddie XP 1500+ Compaq Presario 900 1500+ 33.9 33.7 | 0 | 7 | 14 | 20 | 27 | 34 | 41

The framerate battle at 640x480x32 in Serious Sam: The Second Encounter is fierce. The SiS 740 and the Radeon IGP 320M perform within 1% of one another. Both solutions were able to bring playable framerates to the game. Let's see what happens as we crank up the resolution.

Serious Sam: The Second Encounter Default Quality 800x600x32 Compaq Presario 900 1500+ ECS i-Buddie XP 1500+ 26.3 24.7 | 0 | 5 | 11 | 16 | 21 | 26 | 32

At 800x600x32 the Presario 900 starts to take the lead away from the i-Buddie XP. The Radeon IGP 320M chipset performed a mediocre 6% faster than the SiS 740 chipset. We were hoping for more but any performance increase an integrated graphics chipset solution can offer is enough for us.

Serious Sam: The Second Encounter Default Quality 1024x768x32 Compaq Presario 900 1500+ ECS i-Buddie XP 1500+ 19.4 16.2 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 16 | 19 | 23

Framerates drop rather low when at 1024x768x32 but the increased resolution does give the Radeon IGP 320M a more substantial performance advantage. Here the chipset ran 20% faster than the SiS 740.

Please note that these numbers were collected using the Default Quality setting of Serious Sam 2.