NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800 Ultra: Gaming On Dell's Inspiron XPS Gen 2

Name: NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800 Ultra: Gaming On Dell's Inspiron XPS Gen 2 - Page 10
Brand: NVIDIA

by Marco Chiappetta — Thursday, February 24, 2005, 02:00 PM EDT

Benchmarks & Comparisons with Doom 3 - Multi-player

The Wait Is Over!.

Doom 3

Our first round of Doom 3 benchmarks focused on single-player performance. In this round we'll run a series of multi-player tests to see how things unfold. These timedemos were run with our custom "HH_Frag2" demo, which is a recording of a five-player on-line match that took place in the "Frag Chamber" map area. We ran benchmarks with Doom 3 set to its "High-Quality" mode at resolutions of 1,024 x 768 and 1,600x1,200 without any anti-aliasing enabled and then with 4X AA and 8X Aniso enabled concurrently. Note: Doom 3 enables 8X anisotropic filtering automatically when set to "High Quality" in the game's control panel.

Out custom Doom 4 multi-player test posed even less of a problem for the GeForce Go 6800 Ultra. Here, the Inspiron XPS Gen 2, with the GeForce Go 6800 Ultra at its heart, maintained very good framerates regardless of the resolution, or whether anti-aliasing was enabled. We were especially impressed by the 59.2 frames per second in the high-resolution test with 4X anti-aliasing enabled. That is a feat for a high-end desktop system, let alone a notebook.

Tags: Nvidia, Dell, GeForce, Gaming, XPS, Inspiron, XP, Ultra, force, Gamin, Pi, 680, ULT, id, AM

Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com