Testing Hardware

Me and my friend just bought new laptops, myself an elitebook 8530w, my friend a MBP. We use these laptops for primarily 3D CAD work on programs like Inventor and SolidWorks. Across the board his specs are a bit better than mine, he has a 2.8ghz vs my 2.66ghz, DDR3 vs DDR2 and so on. Areas were I hold an advantage is in graphics, my quadro 770fx vs his 9600gt. I am running 64 bit Vista and using 4 gigs of Ram. He also has 4 gigs of Ram, but is running XP 32 bit.

We want to run some tests on our computers and compare not only general performance, but performance related to openGL CAD related processes. Do you guys know of some good performance tests we could run to compare?

Also, do you think I stand a shot at showing better results on any of the tests? I know he spent quite a bit more on his laptop, but id like to think the underdog here can beat him on some tests?

Thanks for any insight

 

I am not very sure, SiSandra usually has multiple sub-benchmarks for each component/module, so you could checkout if it has anything related to OpenGL, etc.

 

Cadaylst or however you spell it magazine used to have an autocad performance test, it was a huge pain in the rear to set up and run, and the results seemed kinda odd, the last bench they showed with it at the time was a 8 way opteron rig with an old Quadro and my Opteron 185 OC'd to 3ghz and a x1900xtx smoked their score... If you have a copy of Autocad 08 you can use it should give you a good idea, it does both 2d and 3d tests

Edit:
http://www.cadalyst.com/benchmark
there ya go, looks like they've updated it quite a bit too