Is it normal that an eXpress 1100 is faster than an X1200? I know both graphics chips are at the lowest end of the spectrum, especially being IGPs, but on laptops there's not much of a choice (especially down here). At any rate, I'm really surprised that an X1100 is almost twice as fast as an X1200 with the latest drivers. That can't possibly be normal, or is it? Maybe there's something wrong with my setup?
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Performance measured through the nothing specific and absolutely not sensitive glxgears app on two laptops were amazing...
The laptops hardware is similar, one is an Acer Aspire 5050-4697 (X1100) and a Toshiba Satellite A215-S7437 (X1200)
To rule out the difference in CPU speeds in the laptops, I locked the CPU speed of both machines to 800MHz (their lowest rate by K8PowerNow), and ran glxgears for 25 seconds (i.e 5 FPS counts), after only 5 seconds the differences are remarkable:
X1100: 1170 FPS
X1200: 529 FPS
Edit
Performance measured through the nothing specific and absolutely not sensitive glxgears app on two laptops were amazing...
The laptops hardware is similar, one is an Acer Aspire 5050-4697 (X1100) and a Toshiba Satellite A215-S7437 (X1200)
To rule out the difference in CPU speeds in the laptops, I locked the CPU speed of both machines to 800MHz (their lowest rate by K8PowerNow), and ran glxgears for 25 seconds (i.e 5 FPS counts), after only 5 seconds the differences are remarkable:
X1100: 1170 FPS
X1200: 529 FPS
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