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Acer TravelMate Timeline 8371T. A well designed companion - Benchmark continued

Sunday, 26 July 2009 18:24 Allan

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RAM - SiSoft Sandra Memory Bandwidth:

Sisoft Sandra’s Memory Bandwidth benchmark is used to measure the speed of the RAM – the higher the value, the better.

The result here actually surprises me a bit as there is DDR3 RAM in the Acer (and more of it) and DDR2 RAM in the Toshiba. It may have something to do with the frequency, but in any case you can clearly see the RAM performance is greater on Toshiba’s laptop.

Hard drive performance - SiSoft Sandra Hard Drive Read:

Sisoft Sandra’s hard drive test module is used to measure the performance of the hard drive. Sisoft Sandra runs a number of tests on the surface of the hard drive and calculates the average reading speed.
The hard drive in the Acer reads just a little bit faster, but the difference is minimal at best and probably not noticeable outside of benchmarks.

GPU performance - 3Dmark:

The 3Dmark tests show the performance in DirectX 9, and paint a picture of the performance in newer games and applications. 3DMark 2005 and 2006 are based on DirectX 9 and show the performance under contemporary games and 3D applications. No tests have been run in DirectX 10.1 (which both cards support).

Graphics is not really the strong suit of either laptop, though both perform well enough. Once again the Toshiba scores higher than the Acer, and while it does have a better GPU on paper, it’s probably not something you’ll notice in practice since the difference is so small.

Overall performance:

The PCMark 05 results can be compared directly with other laptops that have run the same PCMark version. The program produces a score from a test that includes the performance of the processor, RAM, hard drive, GPU, etc.
Here we see the final result confirming the overall tendency throughout these tests. The Toshiba scores a bit higher on the overall test, which was pretty much what the individual tests suggested. As such, you get slightly better system with improved graphics compared to the Acer at almost the same price.