Macbook Airs (11 and 13) both smoking the 13" 2.4Ghz Macbook Pro in gaming benchmarks

[barefeats]

Hey Barefeats,

Can you monitor the clock speed of the GPU when you are doing your tests?

I know I've used some terminal commands in the past that allow you to hook into the graphics driver to pull the clock speed settings. There is a GUI packaged up as well, just not sure if it works with the Air.

http://www.groths.org/?p=207

Would be nice to prove / disprove the theory of the GPU clockdown. Of all devices, I would suspect the Air 320m to clockdown before the MBP.

I used Zeus to monitor the GPU clock speed while running a 7 min replay on Starcraft II. The 13" MBP maintained a steady 750MHz. Ditto for the 13" MBA. So that doesn't explain why the 13" MBA beats it.

 

[1BadMac]

I used Zeus to monitor the GPU clock speed while running a 7 min replay on Starcraft II. The 13" MBP maintained a steady 750MHz. Ditto for the 13" MBA. So that doesn't explain why the 13" MBA beats it.

The cores should be clocked @ 450, so I think Zeus is not hooking properly to the video driver.

I'm pretty sure if you check again, the clock speed is showing as 2147483.750.

I've sent the author of Zeus a note to see if he can correct this.