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HP Envy 15 - Strong multimedia laptop. - Benchmarks continued

Wednesday, 27 January 2010 07:00 Laptopfreak

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Article Index
HP Envy 15 - Strong multimedia laptop.
Specifications
Construction & Design
Construction & Design continued
Benchmarks
Benchmarks continued
Gaming
Conclusion
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Battery life

Idle test settings
Brightness: minimum, HDD standby after 10 minutes and WiFi active.
Classic test settings.
Brightness: maximum, HDD standby after 10 minutes and WiFi active.

HP Envy 15 managed to go for almost two hours in idle, and just over 1 hour in classic. These are not very impressive results. The hardware simply eats up too much power, making it inappropriate for longer trips and such.

Processor

wPrime 2.0

The computer gets through the wPrime test in 15.478 seconds, which is really quick compared to most computers, both laptops and desktops. The multiple cores are really used to their full potential here.

CineBench 10

CineBench outputs two results – one in which only one core is used, and one with all the cores. This illustrates the performance enhancement rather well, which can also be seen on the graph, and the result the computer gets in the “Multiple CPU” test is good too.

SisSandra Processor Arithmetic & Multi-Media

In the Arithmetic test, the application calculates in MIPS per second (Million instructions per second) and in Mega Flops per second (One million floating point operations per second) in the Multi-Media test. In both, a higher score is better.

As can be derived, Envy 15 does incredibly well. In “Arithmetic: DRY” it reached twice as many points as Envy 13. Once again, the i7 processor is completely superior.
Graphics card

3DMark Vantage

Here Envy 15 scored a fine CPU result of 10434 points, whereas the GPU score was only 3408 points. That gave it a final score of 4098 points under the “Performance” setting, which is reasonable but not all that impressive.

RAM

The RAM modules in Envy 15 also beat those in Envy 13 here, with the lightning-fast PC3-10600 DDR3 RAM making the difference.

Overall

PCMark Vantage

The computer gets 5280 points in PCMark Vantage, which is both very decent and a lot more than Envy 13.

Hard drive

Envy 15 is considerably faster with its 7200RPM hard drive versus Envy 13’s 4200RPM drive.