Sager NP8886 2.8GHz Pentium 4

Performance - Jedi Knight 2

Jedi Knight 2 'demo jk2ffa' @ 800x600x32 Desktop 3.06GHz Hypersonic Sonic Aviator 3.06GHz Sager NP8886 2.8GHz Dell Inspiron 8200 2.0GHz (Mobility Radeon 9000) 149.4 138.4 133.4 109.9 | 0 | 30 | 60 | 90 | 120 | 149 | 179

Like Serious Sam 2, low resolutions of Jedi Knight 2 are very CPU dependent. At 800x600x32 the 2.8GHz NP8886 performs about 4% behind the 3.06GHz Sonic Aviator. This falls almost exactly in line for what we were seeing in Serious Sam: The Second Encounter. Let's see how the story changes as we increase the resolution.

Jedi Knight 2 'demo jk2ffa' @ 1024x768x32 Desktop 3.06GHz Hypersonic Sonic Aviator 3.06GHz Sager NP8886 2.8GHz Dell Inspiron 8200 2.0GHz (Mobility Radeon 9000) 147.8 119.5 119.5 103.5 | 0 | 30 | 59 | 89 | 118 | 148 | 18

The performance lead offered by the Hypersonic machine disappears as the resolution is pushed up to 1024x768x32 in Jedi Knight 2. Now the NP8886 is tied with the Sonic Aviator as the fastest notebook. The performance lead that the Hypersonic machine had has now vanished because the increase in resolution shifted stress from the CPU to the video system. With the video system acting as the bottleneck, both Mobility Radeon 9000 systems with similar processor speeds are now limited by what the graphics chip can do.

Jedi Knight 2 'demo jk2ffa' @ 1280x1024x32 Desktop 3.06GHz Dell Inspiron 8200 2.0GHz (Mobility Radeon 9000) Hypersonic Sonic Aviator 3.06GHz Sager NP8886 2.8GHz 118.4 87.4 83.7 82.2 | 0 | 24 | 47 | 71 | 95 | 118 | 142

The story is the same at 1280x1024x32, with both the Sager and Hypersonic machine performing tit for tat. The Dell Inspiron 8200 gains the lead for top performing notebook in Jedi Knight 2 in this resolution thanks to the more up to date video drivers that are available for the unit.