3DMark2001SE, 3DMark03, AquaMark3
Gaming benchmarks were conducted with both laptops in mains- and battery-powered modes. Power saving was set to maximum battery, in order to conserve the quick drain a 3.2GHz Pentium 4 processor introduces to any battery. Let's see how it does.
10,272 marks with ease, thanks to GPU and memory speeds of 345MHz and 470MHz, respectively. The test is run at the screen's non-default resolution of 1024x768. Rock's Xtreme managed to score just over 6,000 marks at 1400x1050. Battery mode forces the car and lobby tests to suffer the most. We can attribute most of the Rock's lead to the use of a faster MR 9600 card.
The same is largely true in 3DMark03. It would be interesting to see what a Mobility Radeon 9700 would score here. The use of battery power doesn't cause such a drop in '03. The reasoning probably lies with the benchmark's ability to tax the graphics adapter heavily.
AquaMark3 carries on the theme. Rock's Xtreme XTR-3.2 uses a slightly faster graphics card to eclipse Voodoo PC m:855's scores, yet it falls some way behind a desktop Radeon 9600 XT 128MB's performance.
