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Sony Vaio VGN-UX390N Performance
So, as I've mentioned previously, I thought I'd post up a bunch of performance numbers of the Vaio UX390N. This is particularly timely since I've basically decided not to keep it because of the price premium for the solid state disk. Although it's nice that it's so quiet some of the time, the fan tends to turn on anyway.
So, with any more delay, here are the various performance numbers:
- 3DMark06: 133
- PCMark05: 1045
- SuperPi:
- 1M: 57 seconds
- 2M: 2m 19s
- 4M: 4m 16s
- Windows Vista Scores:
- Processor: 2.9
- Memory: 4.3
- Graphics: 2.0
- Gaming Graphics: 2.6
- Primary Hard Disk: 5.2
- SiSoft Scores:
- Processor Arithmetic:
- Dhrystone ALU: 4549 MIPS
- Whetstone iSSE2: 3343 MFLOPS
- Processor Multi-Media:
- Integer x8 iSSE2: 10410 it/s
- Floating-Point: 14175 it/s
- Physical Disks:
- Drive Index: 49 MB/s (and relatively flat)
- Random Access Time: 1ms
- Memory Bandwidth:
- RAM Bandwidth Int Buff'd iSSE2: 1624 MB/s
- RAM Bandwidth Float Buff'd iSSE2: 1644 MB/s
- Processor Arithmetic:
Well, there it is. The results aren't great until you remember that it can fit in your pocket (should you be wearing cargo pants). The disk scores are pretty good, though.
Also, keep in mind all of these were run under Windows Vista Business. I couldn't install 3DMark03 so I skipped to 3DMark06, which uses more hardware features than the GMA950 supports, I think.
Responsiveness and general browsing performance is great. With the low screen resolution, the GMA950 doesn't have to drive as many pixels as a higher resolution screen such as a full WUXGA (1920x1200).
However, you won't be playing many 3D games that require decent frame rates. I've tried a couple and it just doesn't work all that well, unfortunately. Maybe a future version of the Vaio UX will have a future version of the GMA950 that can actually do good 3D graphics. Or, and perhaps more likely, AMD will embed great ATI graphics in a multi-core low power mobile chip by have a couple of general purpose CPU cores alongside a GPU core all in a single package.
Posted by Shane on April 4, 2007 8:21 AM | Permalink
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