Mini-Note Performance Tests with Windows XP
I know everyone has been really curious to see the performance difference of XP on the Mini-Note, so without further ado here are the results:
Computer Details
Mini-Note #1 = 800Mhz, Vista Business
Mini-Note #2 = 1200Mhz, Vista Business
Mini-Note #3 = 1600Mhz, Vista Business
Mini-Note #4 = 800Mhz, XP Pro SP2
Mini-Note #5 = 1200Mhz, XP Pro SP2
Mini-Note #6 = 1600Mhz, XP Pro SP2
Desktop #1 = 1800Mhz AMD Athlon 64 3000+ (1800Ghz), 1GB RAM, 7200 RPM HD, Nvidia 6200, Windows Media Center SP2
Desktop #2 = 1867Mhz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2GB RAM, 7200 RPM HD, Nvidia 7600GT, Windows Media Center SP2
Note, that all the Mini-Notes are actually the VIA C7-M 1.6Ghz model underclocked with the power management settings, and have 2GB DDR667 RAM, 120GB 7200RPM HD.
The 1.2Ghz benchmarks using XP are missing because I haven’t found a way to throttle the CPU in XP to 1.3Ghz. The power options only let me have 800Mhz or 1600Mhz.
I didn’t realize there was a newer version of 3DMark when I ran the benchmarks on Vista. I’ll try and get the Vista image restored this weekend and try 3DMark06.
Benchmark Tests
| Comp | Geek Bench | Passmark | 3DMark03 | 3DMark06 | PCMark05 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mini-Note #1 | 300 | 101 | 236 | 528 | |
| Mini-Note #2 | 393 | 118.7 | 316 | 726 | |
| Mini-Note #3 | 532 | 153.6 | 358 | 930 | |
| Mini-Note #4 | 158 | 147.3 | 335 | 71 | 641 |
| Mini-Note #5 | |||||
| Mini-Note #6 | 547 | 194 | 480 | 113 | 989 |
| Desktop #1 | 1,324 | 310 | 10,029 | 210 | 2,263 |
| Desktop #2 | 2,162 | 669.1 | 15,151 | 3,649 | 5,154 |
Video Encoding
| Comp | MOV to AVI | MOV to FLV |
|---|---|---|
| Mini-Note #1 | 15:30.35 | 5:40.83 |
| Mini-Note #2 | 10:24.18 | 4:25.34 |
| Mini-Note #3 | 8:18.23 | 2:56.83 |
| Mini-Note #4 | 13:17.32 | 5:00.4 |
| Mini-Note #5 | ||
| Mini-Note #6 | 7:11.2 | 2:46.55 |
| Desktop #1 | 3:17.00 | 1:12.15 |
| Desktop #2 | 2:13.93 | 47.68 |
See the Mini-Note Vista Video Encoding Benchmarks post for full details on the encoding test.
Summary
As I said in First Impressions of XP on the Mini-Note, the 2133’s performance is noticeably better with XP and these benchmarks really prove that.
May 8th, 2008 at 6:47 am
Great info. Thanks!
May 9th, 2008 at 12:54 am
It’s a sexy looking little thing, and apparently has a nice keyboard, but the Eee scores better(double) at half (HALF!?) the clock rate.
I’ll live with a dinky keyboard. I already remap some keys, adjusting shouldn’t be too abysmal.
July 4th, 2008 at 10:35 am
It would be very interesting to compare the figures from the Isaiah/Nano - as it is pin compatible with the C7. (So I assume one could just swap them?).
July 7th, 2008 at 12:47 pm
@IanC
Technically you could swap them in, but VIA uses a special soldering method which would make it extremely difficult to do:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_grid_array