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    Macbook Pro 3dMark?

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by hooligan001, Jan 17, 2009.

  1. hooligan001

    hooligan001 Notebook Evangelist

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    Hi all, just wondering if anyone is running vista or XP on their macbook pro?

    If so anyone got any benchmarks for the performance of the graphics card?

    Thanks in advance guys
     
    hooligan001, Jan 17, 2009
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    cdnalsi Food for the funky people

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    The new Unibody 2.53Ghz, with 9600M GT 512MB gets about 6,000 in 3Dmark06 as far as I recall...

    edit: Needless to say, I didn't run 3dMark06 on my machine, but I can say this:

    I'm playing Mass Effect, Mirror's Edge, Fallout 3, Oblivion, DeadSpace, PES 2009 all maxed out, native resolution 1440x900.
     
    cdnalsi, Jan 17, 2009
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  3. hooligan001

    hooligan001 Notebook Evangelist

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    Cool, thanks for the input, so whilst gaming does the 9600 run in SLI with the 9400? or is it just on the single card?

    Cheers!
     
    hooligan001, Jan 18, 2009
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    Single card afaik
     
    StrongerThanAll, Jan 18, 2009
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    Colton Also Proudly American

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    Yeah, the MBP's do not run in SLI at all, and only run on a single card at a time.
     
    Colton, Jan 18, 2009
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    hooligan001 Notebook Evangelist

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    Ah right i see. Thanks for your replies guys!

    I was thinking that it would make a pretty sweet set up if the cards were sli'd.

    Oh well that has put my curiosity at rest for now
     
    hooligan001, Jan 18, 2009
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    Colton Also Proudly American

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    Yeah, that would make the MBP ever more awesome! :D

    BTW- thanks for the rep!! :D
     
    Colton, Jan 18, 2009
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    Even with the hybrid-sli enabled, the 9400M integrated is not going to help the 9600M GT much IMHO.
     
    cdnalsi, Jan 18, 2009
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    The beauty of it is the 1400x900 native resolution. Not only helps to achieve higher native fps, but gives the MBP a longer shelf life with its 9600M GT.
     
    electrosoft, Jan 18, 2009
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    My 2.53 4GB's of ram 320GB 7200 RPM HDD MBPRO scores aroud 6000
     

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  11. hooligan001

    hooligan001 Notebook Evangelist

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    I see very good, i take it that isnt overclocked at all?

    Also what kind of temps do you get while running 3dmark?

    Thanks for your input I'm finding this quite interesting!
     
    hooligan001, Jan 19, 2009
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    You should actually set 3dMark06 to 1280x1024 to get comparable results AFAIK...then your score is probably between 5400-5600....could you run it again?
     
    LPTP-LVR, Jan 19, 2009
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    oh btw....the free version wont let you change the screen settings but it would be needed to compare results with most you find on the web or scores you find on the futuramark site
     
    LPTP-LVR, Jan 19, 2009
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    I have3dmark06 pro and that resolution is not an option for me, the highest is 1440x900 then 1360x768, 1280x800,1280x768,1280x720,1152x864,1024x768 it goes downhill from there. I'm using windows 7 now with the beta drivers released by nvidia(179.28). I've used newer ones from laptop2go and the nvidia beta's have performed the best overall(for bench marking) IMHO.
     
    Ljay, Jan 20, 2009
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    Unless you have an external display, you won't be able to set it to 1280x1024.
     
    hydroxs, Jan 20, 2009
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