SONY VAIO AR - 1st Sony Entry Level Gamer's Notebook?

nVIDIA GeForce Go 7600GT Theoretical Benchmark

Well, when SONY showed it's new AR series notebook everybody was asking him self the same question - what will be the raphics performance of that candy? Will nVIDIA GeForce Go 7600GT GPU be enough for high end gaming? As we don't have real machine somewhere in the test room, I continue to calculate theoretical performance of upcoming SONY VAIO lappies. So let's
call it PART II

nVIDIA GeForce Go 7600GT based on G73 chip and must be a 12 pixel pipelines video card with 8 vertex engines driving the
GPU at about 500-560MHz, and memory at 1GHz. Even if nVIDIA will change the specifications for theoretical benching they are not needed, just take some official numbers from nVIDIA web site: Fill Rate, Verteces, Mem Bandwidth...

To compare the performance I took some numbers from Tom's Hardware test of DELL XPS and test of MSI GeForce 7600GT on a desktop machine with AMD Opteron 144 CPU. Let's look at the numbers, they are very attractive:

The first theoretical benchmark is 3DMark 2005


Then I calculated the performance in Quake 4


Then Half-Life 2


And finaly the overclocking potential according to the desktop version of the chip


The results are very good. We can see decent performance which is enough for modern and future games. I also calculated FPS in NFS Most Wanted where HDR lighting takes place and the result is 56fps for 1024x768, NoAA/NoAF. Taking into account overclokcing potential of Go 7600GT I think we can say that in few weeks SONY will release Entry Level Gamer's Notebook.

Sure SONY AR is 1.5 times slower than DELL XPS M1710, but I think it's definitly better than nothing and finaly SONY VAIO fans can buy a really good machine for gaming. Now we have to wait for release..

Please leave here your comments and thoughts..

P.S. hm there is something wrong with my file server and sometimes pictures don't load up.

Try to bench the performance after full reinstall (if you plan it) and with modded inf desktop Forceware drivers. You will see 10% increase and the score will be near 5300 marks. Mostly the score is 4980 because of VAIO is full of useless stuff and have stupid old video drivers. And If you can, please write something about the notebook, or maybe post some photos, tell about it's quality, ease of use, are you happy with it, where it is maden in? Japan or China, etc.. everything you think you should say about AR It would be very interesting!