NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS 256MB - Laptop Benchmarking

Hello!

I'm relatively new to benchmarking but yesterday I thought I would test this laptop out. It's a HP DV9576EA with the 8600M GS 256MB Dedicated. I am using 163.69 ForceWare version drivers

Primary Device NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS
Width 1440 1280
Height 900 854
Anti-Aliasing None None
Anti-Aliasing Quality 0 0
Texture Filtering Optimal Optimal
Anisotropic Level 1 1
VS Profile 3_0 3_0
PS Profile 3_0 3_0
Force full precision No No
Disable HW shadow mapping No No
Disable post-processing No No
Force software vertex shader No No
Color mipmaps No No
Force software FP filtering No No
Repeat tests Off Off
Fixed framerate Off Off
Comment
3DMark Score 2050 2299 3DMarks
SM2.0 Score 793 880
HDR/SM3.0 Score 730 816
CPU Score 1447 1755
Game Score N/A N/A
GT1 - Return To Proxycon 6.385 7.135 FPS
GT2 - Firefly Forest 6.838 7.536 FPS
CPU1 - Red Valley 0.377 0.557 FPS
CPU2 - Red Valley 0.890 0.885 FPS
HDR1 - Canyon Flight 6.276 6.904 FPS
HDR2 - Deep Freeze 8.320 9.418 FPS

Can someone tell me if these results are good. They don't look to good to me

What can I do to improve it?

Thanks,
Stephen

 

2299 marks...thats alright for a 8600GS...you might want to try new drivers such as 169.04

 

Thanks, so this card isn't going to be able to play any new games. How well will it do with Crysis?

What options should I set it to? 1440 x 900?

Thanks

 

I cant seem to find a 32 bit Vista version of them drivers

 

With Crysis you probably won't be able to play at native res... ''maybe'' lowest settings on 1280...

have you checked on laptopvideo2go.com?

You should be able to run UT3 because it is very well optimised (z).

Also you should check in the ''Can My Notebook Run It'' Thread to see what games you can run

 

Thanks! Got them.

 

It's a decent machine, you'll be able to play all of the latest games including Crysis on it. Don't expect ultra settings with Crysis but it will definitely be playable at reduced detail levels. Don't feel bad about not being able to play Crysis at high settings because the only cards that can do that are priced substantially higher (Go7950GTX/8800M-GTX).

If you want to do some in-game benchmarking, download FRAPS and install it:
http://www.fraps.com/
Then start it, go to the FPS tab, check the "Stop benchmark automatically after 60 seconds", and also check "MinMaxAvg" and "FPS". Then when you play a game, press F11 to start the 60 second benchmark . . . it will record your FPS for 60 seconds and then generate stats. The log file is called FRAPSLOG.txt and is found in C:\FRAPS or whatever directory you installed it to.

 

Thanks will let you know how it goes

 

Just gave it a go on medium settings:
Frames Time (ms) Min Max Avg
341 60000 0 11 5.683

Still a bit slow and laggy.

What should the FPS be for smooth gameplay?

Thanks

Update:

Low Settings
Frames Time (ms) Min Max Avg
703 60000 8 17 11.717

Any good?

 

The general target for smooth gameplay in FPS games is 30fps and up. An average of 5 is definitely not smooth so you need to turn down a few settings for your desired game.

 

it varies but for me 30fps is my thresh-hold

 

So

Low Settings
Frames Time (ms) Min Max Avg
703 60000 8 17 11.717

is really bad? So this game is not really for my laptop?f

Thanks

 

Which game is this? If it's a recently released FPS then lower the resolution and other eyecandy settings best as you can until gameplay starts becoming smoother. Then raise a few settings until you get a good mix between eyecandy and playability.

 

Thanks. It's Crysis, I'm using a 1440 x 900 screen. What should it be set to in game to give me decent performance. When them tests were run it was 1280 x 854.

Thanks for your time I really appreciate it!

 

Try 1024 resolution and lower your settings to low/medium. The GS variant isn't powerful enough to run at your screen's native resolution.

 

Put the resolution down to 800x600 if 1024x768 doesn't work and the settings to medium, see how it does then. Shaders and Shadows are the two biggest performance affecting settings, so play around with those. Keep textures on high.

 

Get better drivers as well. The 169.04 version give a boost in fps.

 

Thanks for all your tips. I am using the 169.04 version :-D

I set everything to low and on 1024 resolution. I was getting 25 FPS.

What's better:

Medium settings 800 x 600?
Low settings 1024x768?

Thanks!

 

Try both and see which one looks and runs better.

Remember that 4:3 resolutions (1024x768 and 800x600) look stretched on a widescreen. You can change the scaling in the driver settings so that resolutions keep their aspect ratio when not widescreen. You'll get black bars on top or on the sides, though it still looks better IMO.

 

Yes, the black bars at the side don't really affect me :-D

As long as the game is nice and fast and looks decent that's really what matters.

Thanks

 

I have the 9500t. Use the 169.04 Driver. Use RivaTuner not Ntune and bring the Core and Shader Core up to spec. 600/1200 the memory is DDR2 so it will not go up to nvidia web sites specs. 400 is actually the correct setting (I overclocked it a little up to 480) 3DMark06- 2950