Intel Core 2 Extreme Mobile X9000 on the Dell M1730

3DMark 2006

3DMark 06 is the worldwide standard in advanced 3D game performance benchmarking and the latest version in the popular 3DMark series! 3DMark06 tests include all new HDR/SM3.0 graphics tests, advanced SM2.0 graphics tests, AI and physics driven single and multiple cores or processor CPU tests and a collection of comprehensive feature tests to reliably measure next generation gaming performance today.

Default 3DMark06 settings were used for testing, so a resolution of 1280×1024 was used.

Benchmark Results: 3DMark06 showed that the Intel X9000 was the winner in the CPU test, which is a fair look at the performance differences between the processors. The Dell XPS M1730 was also a winner in the overall score as you can see below.

Just for fun, I also ran 3DMark06 with the system overclocked at 3.4GHz and was able to break the 10,000 mark on 3DMark06! Very impressive with a notebook and if you wanted even higher performance levels you could overclock the graphics cards! Note the CPU score went from 2576 to 3131 when overclocked, which is a 21.5% performance increase thanks to the overclock.