Sager NP8886 2.8GHz Pentium 4

Performance - Serious Sam: The Second Encounter

Serious Sam 2 Little Trouble @ 800x600x32 Desktop 3.06GHz Hypersonic Sonic Aviator 3.06GHz Sager NP8886 2.8GHz Dell Inspiron 8200 2.0GHz (Mobility Radeon 9000) 134.4 107.6 104.3 64.9 | 0 | 27 | 54 | 81 | 108 | 134 | 161

Unlike Unreal Tournament 2003, which places stress on the video portion of a system, Serious Sam: The Second Encounter is very CPU dependent. The graph above shows what we should expect at a low resolution in the game. It is interesting to note that the 2.8GHz processor at the heart of the NP8886 was only 3% behind the 3.06GHz processor that powered the Hypersonic Sonic Aviator.

Serious Sam 2 Little Trouble @ 1024x768x32 Desktop 3.06GHz Hypersonic Sonic Aviator 3.06GHz Sager NP8886 2.8GHz Dell Inspiron 8200 2.0GHz (Mobility Radeon 9000) 99.1 76.8 73.6 46.7 | 0 | 20 | 40 | 59 | 79 | 99 | 119

The story is pretty much the same as the resolution is increased to 1024x768x32. The gap between the Hypersonic machine and the Sager one increases slightly here to 4%. Both systems are still dominated by the power of the Radeon 9000 Pro in our desktop system.

Serious Sam 2 Little Trouble @ 1280x1024x32 Desktop 3.06GHz Hypersonic Sonic Aviator 3.06GHz Sager NP8886 2.8GHz Dell Inspiron 8200 2.0GHz (Mobility Radeon 9000) 66.4 50.7 48.2 30.6 | 0 | 13 | 27 | 40 | 53 | 66 | 8

The lead offered by the Hypersonic machine over the Sager one creeps up to 5% while at 1280x1024x32 but the story still remains essentially the same: the faster the processor in the notebook, the faster Serious Sam 2 plays.