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    3d vantage benchmarking.

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by steadfast9661, Mar 29, 2010.

  1. steadfast9661

    steadfast9661 Notebook Evangelist

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    Question, i notice my old q6600 desktop CPU score 31k in vntage and my new i7 mobile score about half of that....is that normal considering the desktop proc is 4 years old?
     
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    are you running an nvidia card with physx switch on in the desktop?
     
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    Yeah i am....but shouldent that boost the GPU score, or is it helping the CPU that much?
     
    steadfast9661, Mar 31, 2010
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    PhysX offloads CPU physics calculations to the GPU, thereby allowing the CPU to do other things faster. That's why your CPU score on the desktop is very high.
     
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    yap, thx. I should have remembered that, i never really thought it would be THAT drastic tho.
     
    steadfast9661, Apr 1, 2010
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