towards the optimal laptop

There is a lot of interest about the graphics card of the new aluminium Macbook, but there is little information available at the moment. I will try to summarize here the available benchmarks:

3DMark 06

• Notebookcheck estimates a score of 2000 at default settings. No info about how the estimation was calculated. 3DMark scores of other cards.
• At the review of the new Macbook, PC Magazine publishes scores of 2344 at 1024×768, AA/AF off, and 2044 at 1280×800, 0x/4x.

Games

• Crysis. 1024×768, medium settings, AA/AF off: 13.2 FPS. From the PC Magazine review.
• World in conflict. 1024×768, medium settings, AA/AF off: 11 FPS. From the PC Magazine review.
• Spore: video. From the review published at Gizmodo.
• Warhammer Online: video.
• Quake 4: 1024×768: 58.7 FPS. From the review published at CNET. 1024×768, maximum settings: 38.7 FPS. From the Macworld benchmarks.
• Call of Duty 4: 1280×800, optimal settings: 23.9 FPS, falls to 11 in complex scenes. From the review published at Laptop Magazine.
• Team Fortress 2: 1280×800, max settings, AA 2x, HDR lighting, no motion blur, Vertical Sync on: smooth,  around 35 FPS. From Mac Forums. Video (includes Oblivion too).
• Half Life 2: 1280×800, max settings, AA 4x: always smooth. From Mac Forums.
• Portal: 1280×800, max settings, AA 2x: always smooth. From Mac Forums.
• There are a few more tests in the same thread of the Mac Forums and Macworld benchmarks Quake 4, Call of Duty 4 and Unreal Tournament 2004.

In addition, AnandTech publishes a comparison of current integrated graphics, including the GeForce 9400, but the desktop version. The difference in performance between the desktop and Macbook versions of the GeForce 9400 is unknown.

Did you find more benchmarks? Post a comment and tell us.

Related posts:

1. ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3450 gaming benchmarks (Call of Duty 4, Crysis, World of Warcraft, F.E.A.R. 2, Sacred 2, Red Alert 3, Unreal Tournament 3, World in Conflict, GRID, Far Cry, Half Life 2)
2. Nvidia GeForce GTX 280M SLI benchmarks (Notebookjournal.de)
3. Nvidia GeForce GTX 480M benchmarks (mobile Fermi): 10% faster than ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870
4. First GeForce GTX 280M benchmarks
5. The GeForce 9500M found in the Dell Studio XPS 13 (1340) is in fact a 9400M G + 9200M GS Hybrid SLI

Tags: Apple, benchmarks, graphics cards, Macbook, Nvidia, Nvidia GeForce, performance

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