notebookcheck.com

How acurate is notebookcheck.com? Should we consider the information on their site to be law, way off base, slightly off but okay, or take it with a grain of salt.

 

With the comparison of gfx cards, notebook check is not always correct... The comparisons that they give are not all tested similarily, e.g. different cpu's and amounts/type of ram in conjunction with the cards.
Unless they have the particular model of laptop you want/have reviewed by them, it would be hard for them to be accurate as most notebooks have different components. Consider it slightly off but okay, However do accept that at times they may be wrong..
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But they do give a range of scores and an average as well.

I just hope that all the specs of the GPUs are correct because that's what I based my 9600m GT purchase on..

 

I based the purchase of my machine on that as well.

My M1710 used to have a 7900GTX (which I O/C'd by flashing with 7950 clocks).

It's in the class up from the 9650. Because of the difference between the cards (the 7900 listed as much higher) I was in two minds. But reading on, the 9650 had better bench marks on some of the progs than the 7900 had, so I figured it was swings and roundabouts and bit the bullet.

I wasn't really looking for an improvement in performance but just similar as I was upgrading for the screen, storage / blu ray etc.

As it turns out with modded drivers, and a tweaked vista install the 9650 works just as well and better in some games, but worse in others, not totally sure why that is though, it's not like the 9650 works better in DX10 as most of the games it does better are in 9.

For example SWG I could run on around 1280x1024 with the 7900 on medium and some high details and no shaddows, with the 9650 I can run native of 1920x1080 with everything on full (apart from shaddows but the 7900 wouldn't touch them).

I guess you have to take into account I have double the ram now at 4gb and a slightly more powerful proc, but from experience I would say to read through all of the benchmarks thoroughly, and check the specs of the machines they compare it to. From my experience, it was pretty reflective, the 9650 is comparable and is better in some and worse in some, but I wouldn't say it was miles down from the 7900 or a totally different class.

Cheers,

 

It's a guideline site- not too bad for some quick info.

 

Notebookcheck lists the processor and memory when it says what a certain card got for a score, as well as the model of the notebook.

 

It's garbage. At least the listing for gpu's is and their 3DMarks.

 

Great site!

I always check this for gpu specs and sometimes for benchmarks or what laptops have a certain gpu.

 

It's definitely not The Law, but it is good for a very basic guideline, and the listed clocks are generally correct, unless you're looking for DDR2 clocks. There are more than a few mistakes in the listed GPU hierarchy, that's why the forums are a better source of info.

 

I agree. It's a good source for basic information and I like how they do a thorough review of the notebooks they obtain. I think what people find misleading is how they rank GPU performance; they take the average of all the scores of systems with the same GPU and post that number (although the individual scores are available under the details link). Because of this, some people get a different impression as to where certain GPUs rank in terms of performance.

 

Is there a better place than notebookcheck that I can find TDPs for different GPUs?

 

So when the list the 9800 GT ahead of the 3870, should one use that as a guideline or should they consider that to be just their opinion?

 

One should reference many sources to come to ones own conclusion rather than taking one source of information as gospel

 

Well so far, I found this site and that site. What other sites are there? You really can't count on the manufactuers site. You really expect them to say, "Yup, ATI's 3870's kick the tail out of our 9800s. Even we use them!"

 

www.google.com

 

I will give you a rough estimate of where your card lies. When comparing 2 or more cards that are close together on the chart, they can have quite different performances.

 

Notebookcheck.com is sort of a preliminary guide as to how they might perform, each system is different so yes it does give you a rough estimate as to where each GPU lies in performance, but look at other sources also.

 

Not that good!!!

 

As noted, you have to click the card you are interested in and look at the specs of the laptops used for that particular score.

The ultimate database of laptop benchmarks does not yet exist.