Hypersonic Sonic Aviator 3.06GHz Pentium 4

Performance - Jedi Knight 2

Jedi Knight 2 'demo jk2ffa' 800x600x32 Desktop 3.06GHz (512MB) Hypersonic Sonic Aviator 3.06GHz 512MB Dell Inspiron 8200 2.0GHz (Mobility Radeon 9000) Dell Inspiron 8200 2.0GHz (GeForce4 440 Go) 149.4 138.4 109.9 101.6 | 0 | 30 | 60 | 90 | 120 | 149 | 179

Jedi Knight 2 is another game that is very CPU limited at low resolutions. Because of this the Hypersonic Sonic Aviator is able to establish a 26% lead over the Dell Inspiron 8200 2.0GHz system outfitted with a Mobility Radeon 9000. The desktop system with its more powerful video card (Radeon 9000 Pro) performs 8% faster than the Sonic Aviator.

Jedi Knight 2 'demo jk2ffa' 1024x768x32 Desktop 3.06GHz (512MB) Hypersonic Sonic Aviator 3.06GHz 512MB Dell Inspiron 8200 2.0GHz (Mobility Radeon 9000) Dell Inspiron 8200 2.0GHz (GeForce4 440 Go) 147.8 119.5 103.5 88.5 | 0 | 30 | 59 | 89 | 118 | 148 | 18

Our 1024x768x32 scores for Jedi Knight 2 show that although the extra speed offered by the faster processor in the Hypersonic Sonic Aviator is allowing it to outperform the competition, the lead it holds is shrinking as the resolution is increased. The Sonic Aviator is 15% faster than the Dell. The desktop's lead grows to 24% here, indicating that the Mobility Radeon 9000 is beginning to act as the bottleneck in this test.

Jedi Knight 2 'demo jk2ffa' 1280x1024x32 Desktop 3.06GHz (512MB) Hypersonic Sonic Aviator 3.06GHz 512MB Dell Inspiron 8200 2.0GHz (Mobility Radeon 9000) Dell Inspiron 8200 2.0GHz (GeForce4 440 Go) 118.4 83.7 82.4 68.7 | 0 | 24 | 47 | 71 | 95 | 118 | 142

Bumping the resolution up to 1280x1024x32 confirms the suspicion that the video system is quickly becoming the bottleneck. The Hypersonic Sonic Aviator and Dell Inspiron 8200, both based on the Mobility Radeon 9000, perform essentially identically indicating that the faster CPU in the Sonic Aviator must simply wait on the graphics portion of the system.