Compaq Presario 2800 Pentium 4-M 1.7GHz Notebook

Performance - Unreal Performance Test 2002

Unreal Performance Test 2002 (Build 856) 640x480x32 Desktop 1.8GHz Desktop 1.7GHz Desktop 1.6GHz Desktop 1.5GHz Desktop 1.4GHz Compaq Presario 2800T 1.7GHz Toshiba 1905-S277 1.6GHz WinBook N4 1.8GHz 68.6 63.2 60.8 58.6 56.9 46.7 20.7 7.3 | 0 | 14 | 27 | 41 | 55 | 69 | 82

As one would suspect, the Mobility Radeon 7500 at the heart of the Presario 2800T left the system performing quite well in 3D gaming. At 640x480x32 in Unreal Performance Test the system was 35% slower than the desktop system, due to the fact that the desktop version of the Radeon 7500 is clocked faster than the mobile one. The system was over double the speed of the previous graphics champ, the Mobility Radeon found in the Toshiba 1905-S277. At 46.7FPS in the most graphics intensive benchmark we have, the Mobility Radeon 7500 offered very impressive performance.

Unreal Performance Test 2002 (Build 856) 800x600x32 Desktop 1.8GHz Desktop 1.7GHz Desktop 1.6GHz Desktop 1.5GHz Desktop 1.4GHz Compaq Presario 2800T 1.7GHz Toshiba 1905-S277 1.6GHz WinBook N4 1.8GHz 65.1 63.7 61.8 59.9 57.4 40.5 17.7 6.7 | 0 | 13 | 26 | 39 | 52 | 65 | 78

At 800x600x32 we see that the Mobility Radeon 7500 is still able to perform quite well, far outdoing its previous generation brother. Again, the Presario 2800T is not quite up to the speed levels of the desktop systems but proves to be far better than the other mobile solutions we have tested.

Unreal Performance Test 2002 (Build 856) 1024x768x32 Desktop 1.8GHz Desktop 1.7GHz Desktop 1.6GHz Desktop 1.5GHz Desktop 1.4GHz Compaq Presario 2800T 1.7GHz Toshiba 1905-S277 1.6GHz WinBook N4 1.8GHz 48.8 48.6 48.3 48 47.6 29.4 11.3 5.8 | 0 | 10 | 20 | 29 | 39 | 49 | 59

Same story at 1024x768x32 in Unreal Performance Test. The Mobility Radeon 7500 is still able to push out about 30FPS when in the Presario 2800T, a speed more than double that of the other notebooks we have tested.

Unreal Performance Test 2002 (Build 856) 1280x1024x32 Desktop 1.8GHz Desktop 1.7GHz Desktop 1.6GHz Desktop 1.5GHz Desktop 1.4GHz Compaq Presario 2800T 1.7GHz 33.2 33.2 33.1 33.1 32.9 21.2 | 0 | 7 | 13 | 20 | 27 | 33 | 4

This review marks the first time in our mobile testing that we decided to include 1280x1024x32 numbers in the review. We chose to include these numbers because, in many instances, the Presario 2800T was still able to produce a decent frame rate at this resolution. The fact of the matter is that we would have likely pushed the resolution up to 1600x1200x32 if we were not limited by the system's SXGA+ LCD panel. At 1280x1024x32 in Unreal Performance Test the Presario 2800T and its Mobility Radeon 7500 fell about 55% behind the desktop setups. As the desktop numbers show, with the frame rate staying effectively the same regardless of CPU clock speed,, the systems are completely video card limited at this resolution.