The results obtained in the 3DMark 2003 3.40 benchmarking set are also different: Acer wins about 10% from ASUS. In the battery mode both laptops run about 7-10% slower in general, for power-saving purposes. Only Fill Rate, Vertex Shader and Pixel Shader stay about the same independent of the power source.

The results obtained during notebooks testing in Unreal Tournament 2003 do not surprise us at all: the leadership still stays with Acer. Both laptops prove almost equally fast in botmatch-antalus (taking into account the measuring error, of course). In botmatch-citadel and flyby-asbestos Acer manages to get 6% and 8% ahead ASUS respectively.

The diagrams below represent the just discussed results of Unreal Tournament 2003:

Well, as we have just seen, the gaming performance of the two systems is pretty good, so that you will be able to enjoy a few contemporary 3D games supporting DirectX 9.0. However, unfortunately, I haven’t noticed any significant performance improvement in Acer TravelMate 3201XCi due to the use of fully-fledged ATI RADEON Mobility 9700 graphics controller.