Quick geek bench questions

[cfII]

I just ran geek bench and there was a 1500 point difference betwen on battery and on ac power, why is this?

battery: 9000
A/C power: 10,480

Are these good scores?

 

[laxman101]

I just ran geek bench and there was a 1500 point difference betwen on battery and on ac power, why is this?

battery: 9000
A/C power: 10,480

Are these good scores?

I get around 9000 with my 2.0 ghz 15" 4GB ram on A/C power. Some settings might change with the lack of A/C. Are you using 32 or 64 bit?

 

[cfII]

I get around 9000 with my 2.0 ghz 15" 4GB ram on A/C power. Some settings might change with the lack of A/C. Are you using 32 or 64 bit?

I just used the free 32 bit version

 

[laxman101]

I just used the free 32 bit version

Same here

 

[cfII]

So laptops LITERALLY have more power when on A/C?

 

[dmccloud]

So laptops LITERALLY have more power when on A/C?

The default behavior for most mobile chipsets is to reduce power consumption when not running on AC. In the past, the technology has been called various names such as SpeedStep (Intel) and PowerNow! (AMD), but the end result is the same. So it's not so much that they "literally have more power" on AC, but rather that mobile parts will clock down to a lower voltage/speed when not on AC to extend battery life.

 

[Minhthien]

I just ran geek bench and there was a 1500 point difference betwen on battery and on ac power, why is this?

battery: 9000
A/C power: 10,480

Are these good scores?

Never realize its a big different!

 

[Contiguous]

Hm, that's odd, I actually had a performance decrease when I plugged it in (went from 10000 down to 9600). I chalked it up to the 32 bit not being as accurate. Still loads higher than my sister's brand new XPS, and that's what counts.

 

[ciccio823]

Geekbench scores

I am experiencing too some weird results with Geekbench...
I always get a score of 1380 and my model's average is about 2500.

What is wrong with it?