killernotebooks
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Sorry, but right now I don't have the 7950 GTX card until next week, and all my 7900 GTX card models are shipped out already. I would run those tests today on your system and when I get the 7950 I can post it.
The numbers you posted:
3dmark 2005 --> 9400 marks on the M9700
3dmark 2006 --> 8700 marks on the M9700
seem a little high/unrealistic for dual 7900 GS cards - the numbers I have seen posted for it are much lower than that, and especially the difference between the '05 and '06 numbers of pnly 700 points, in fact, they make no sense if you have ever benchmarked using both programs, this is a more reasonable spread between them, and this is from a desktop SLi board:
TechRepublic Review
The numbers you posted:
3dmark 2005 --> 9400 marks on the M9700
3dmark 2006 --> 8700 marks on the M9700
seem a little high/unrealistic for dual 7900 GS cards - the numbers I have seen posted for it are much lower than that, and especially the difference between the '05 and '06 numbers of pnly 700 points, in fact, they make no sense if you have ever benchmarked using both programs, this is a more reasonable spread between them, and this is from a desktop SLi board:
Here is one example of m9700 numbers:3DMark05: 11916
3DMark06: 7383
TechRepublic Review
I think that this argument is kind of being caught up on 3D mark from a synthetic benchmark that is designed to implement 1 core of a CPU, of which we have a typed in number with no screenshot of the system. If your notebook CPU power/performance isn't an issue AT ALL, since we have already determined the Executioner CPU score is 69% higher then the Alienware, then we could keep focusing in on 3D Mark scores, but we need something more than, "My 3D05 score is 9,400 and my 3d06 score is 8700", because as I noted, those numbers don't make sense.I also ran 3DMark06 v102 visual benchmarks on the Aurora m9700. The average 3DMark score was 5000, which is just slightly lower then many AMD desktops. Of the few m9700 notebooks posted on the Futuremark Web site, 5000 was the consistent 3DMark.