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    New Dell Studio XPS 16 not too ahead of t500 on 3dmark 06

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by joer80, Jan 8, 2009.

  1. joer80

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    New Dell Studio XPS 16 not too ahead of t500 on 3dmark 06. Do you think they are using the 3670 on ddr2 instead of ddr3 like the t500 uses? Or is it just not that much better?
     
    joer80, Jan 8, 2009
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    (I think the difference is about 11% or so faster)
     
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    As far as I'm aware, the difference in the 50 series and 70 series for the ATI cards (e.g. 3650->3670, 3450->3470) is the clocks speed and memory speed. Although, I honestly don't know what your asking.
     
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    The Dell uses GDDR3. I don't know of any HD 3670 with DDR2 memory, but if it had DDR2 then it would be slower than the HD 3650 GDDR3.
     
    sgogeta4, Jan 8, 2009
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    It's just not that much better. The Dell Studio XPS 16 has a higher-clocked version of the graphics card in the T500.
     
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    Can the 3630 be user overclocked to get the exact same result? Or does the 3670 offer something over this to make it sustain the higher clock easier?
     
    joer80, Jan 12, 2009
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    It's probably a matter of binning. It might be possible to OC, but nothing is guaranteed.
     
    sgogeta4, Jan 12, 2009
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