Gaming: Doom 3 and Far Cry 1.3
I ran the default timedemo, ‘timedemo demo 1’, three times on each resolution and quality setting, and took the average of the second and third scores. We ignored the first one as it was always much slower than the following ones as the game was caching textures off the hard drive.
This is a custom demo we use in various PCP articles, run three times and average the second and third iterations.
The Pentium M platform is showing its strengths here in these modern gaming tests. At 2.0 GHz it is very competitive with the top Pentium 4 CPUs and at 2.4 GHz it blows them away.