Core i7 successor to M6400 outed in Passmark performance database

This is something for all you Dell Precision M6400 guys.

I was running Passmark to benchmark my new HP Envy 15 against other mobile quad core systems (primarily the Thinkpad W700 and the M6400). When selecting to download other baselines for comparison, there were four pages of M6400 baselines uploaded with wildly varying scores. I decided to test against the fastest M6400 so I sorted the results according to CPU-rating and to my surprise the M6400 with the fastest CPU was running the fastest Core i7 processor.

See the details in the screenshot below or download and run Passmark and compare your system to this Core i7 M6400 ....

 

Interesting... So it's barely faster than the fastest Q9300 in that list. That difference is not worth the upgrade in my book. Of course, if they offer a 2.5GHz i7, then the picture would look different...

 

Yeah, I think references for that notebook (the M6500) were mentioned earlier in this forum. Someone had seen them being tested... Anandtech has more benchmarks on the i7 vs. the quad core and it highlights in what areas it is much better than the C2Q.

 

nice to see that if i upgrade my T9600 to a QX9300 my system wont be too far behind current machines

 

and a quadro FX 3800M to?

 

Wonder if that's based on the GTX 280M (ie. same as current FX 3700M but lower manufacturing process and higher speeds)...

 

The Quadro FX 3800 (desktop card) has 192 cores and 1GB GDDR3, consuming only 108W. The mobile version will probably either have fewer cores or lower clocks, if they're shooting to match the 3700M's power use at 72W.