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Tuesday, 09 March 2010 09:48 Laptopfreak

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Article Index
MSI GT740 MS-1727
Specifications
Construction & Design
Benchmarks
Benchmarks continued
Gaming
Conclusion
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Benchmarks

CPU-Z & GPU-Z

GT740 is based on Intel;s new Calpella platform consisting of the PM55 "Ibex Peak" chipset and one of the quad-core Core i7 "Clarksfield" processors. The new processors feature innovations like Turbo Boost, which makes intelligent use of the cores. If two or more cores are unused and the CPU not too hot, the remaining cores are automatically overclocked. In this way the CPU always optimises performance, whether you are running applications that can take advantage of only one core or several.

Comparison

MSI GT740 is pitted against HP's Envy 15, which is not too different in terms of hardware. HP Envy 15 has the following specifications:

- Intel Clarksfield Core i7-720 Quadcore Mobile - 1.6 GHz - 6 MB L3 cache
- Intel PM55 (IbexPeak-M)
- 2x 2048 MB PC3-10600 DDR3 SDRAM
- ATi Mobility Radeon HD 4830 (M97)
- Seagate ST9320423AS - 320 GB - 7200 RPM
- 15.6 inch HD LED 16:9 widescreen display - 1366 x 768px
- HP Lithium Ion battery - 6 cells - 53280 mWh – 12.4V
- Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (build 7600)

HP Envy 15 costs about £1,200.00

You can read the review here

Windows Experience Index

The computer’s base rating is set according to the lowest sub-score, which in this case is “Primary hard disk – disk data transfer rate” at 5.9 points, a decent score in itself. The highest score is reached in “Memory (RAM) – memory operations per second” which gets a whopping 7.4 points. When you consider the scale goes from 1 to 7.9 points, this is a pretty good result.

Boot and out of standby times

The computer starts up in about one minute, which is quite alright. Envy 15 is about 15 seconds quicker though. When it comes to getting out of standby, it takes only 1.9 seconds while Envy 15 needs 6 seconds.

Battery life

Idle test settings
Brightness: 1/9, HDD standby after 10 minutes and WiFi active.

Classic test settings
Brightness: 9/9, HDD standby after 10 minutes and WiFi active.

As can be seen, neither of the two does very well in terms of mobility. MSI GT740 lasts about 1 hour and 45 minutes which is not too long, and Envy 15 is not much better. At classic settings we are down to about 1 hour, which is not much for all-day computing.

Processor

wPrime 2.0

Both do quite well in the wPrime benchmark. They have the same processor, namely Intel’s i7-720 quad-core processor, and that helps boost performance.

SisSandra Processor Arithmetic & MultiMedia

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

In SisSandra's CPU benchmark, the results of the two are quite even as well. HP Envy 15 gets a slightly higher score, though applications running in the background can have an impact on this test.

Cinebench R11.5

The new Cinebench R11.5 is online, but unfortunately results are not much more comparable than they were in the older versions, so it is hard to conclude anything from this test.