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Samsung X360 - The Black Panther - Benchmark

Wednesday, 03 June 2009 13:17 the_dare_devil

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Article Index
Samsung X360 - The Black Panther
Konfiguration
Package contents
Construction and Design
Construction and Design continued
Benchmark
Benchmark continued
Conclusion
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Benchmark
For the Samsung X360, all benchmarks were run at factory settings with Windows Vista unless otherwise specified.

Comparison

Apple MacBook Air

Processor
1.60 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo – 1066 MHz FSB – 6 MB Cache – 45 nm

Chipset
nVidia MCP79

RAM
2 x 1024 MB DDR3 RAM – 1066 MHz

GPU
Geforce 9400M – 512 MB DDR3 RAM (shared) – Windows

HDD
1.8” – 120 GB HD – SATA300 – 16 MB – 4200 RPM

Battery
4900 mAh – 6 cells

Windows Vista Experience Index

As expected the bottleneck is the GPU. Still it is hardly as bad as what we usually see on notebooks, and if WVEI is right the components are quite well balanced. The score of 3.4 is decent, especially for such a small machine.

Boot & out of standby times

Boot and out of standby times are measured from when the power button is pressed and the Windows desktop appears.

As shown by the graphs, the Samsung boots up quickest. Whether this is because the reference laptop has two operating system installed I cannot say, but the Samsung is the obvious winner on battery. When it comes to out of standby, things are different and the two machines are very close; the differences might as well be due to minor measurement errors. Both are very fast in any case.

Battery life

Battery-eater Pro 2,70 is used to measure the battery lives.

Stated battery life: 6-10 hours

Idle test settings: Approaching 0% CPU load, brightness minimum, all power saving functions activated.
Load test settings: Approaching 100% CPU load, brightness maximum, no power saving functions activated.

The X360 lasts the phenomenal 10 hours as promised! The absolute maximum battery life lands at 10.5 hours, which can only be described as REALLY good. However, do not hope for this kind of battery life if the machine is in use or has WiFi activated; in that case, expect a battery life of about 2.5 hours. A good deal lower but nevertheless still acceptable. The Samsung and the MacBook Air are very even, though the MacBook Air cannot even compete in idle.

The processor

SuperPI

SuperPI tests the CPU's speed but uses only one core. The result is a time in seconds, meaning the lower the better.

Since the reference has the most powerful CPU, it is only natural the Samsung suffers defeat.

wPrime v2.00

wPrime computes the number PI with 32 million decimals. wPrime is able to utilize multi-core processors, so it’s able to utilize more of the CPU during calculations than for example SuperPI. The result is a time in seconds, so the lower the number the better.

The same appears to be true in wPrime, albeit less extreme.

Sisoft Sandra CPU Arithmetic

SiSoft Sandras Whetstone and Drystone benchmark tests the processor’s ability to do pure number crunching, which occurs during gaming or different forms of picture editing. The measure is in Mflops (Millions Floating Point Operations Per Second) – the higher, the better.

Again the reference is the sharpest tool in the shed.

Sisoft Sandra CPU Multimedia

The multimedia test in SiSoft Sandra is calculated on a 2D figure. The output (it/s) is Mandelbrot iterations per second, i.e. the bigger the better.

And the Samsung naturally loses again in the multimedia test.

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