14 DAY TRIAL // Although they can hardly be called portable, Eurocom's mobile workstations are some of the fastest “laptops” available on the market, and the company set to prove it recently by using one of their Panther 2.0 systems to break the mobile 3DMark 06 world record.
As you can most certainly guess, the machine had no problems in achieving its goal and, at the end of the benchmarking session, managed to score an impressive 22669 points in Futuremark's application.
According to the Tweak Town website, the machine was a Panther 2.0 system that ran an Intel Core i7-980X extreme processor, 12GB of RAM, and a 500GB Seagate solid hybrid storage drive.
The Core i7 980X is a six-core desktop processor that features 12MB of L3 cache, Hyper-Threading support, 3.33GHz clock speed (that can go up to 3.6GHZ in certain applications thanks to Turbo Boost) and a massive 130W TDP.
Graphics power was provided by a pair of AMD Radeon HD6970M GPUs in CrossFireX.
This is AMD's fastest mobile graphics chip to date and it’s based on the Barts architecture that is also used for the desktop Radeon HD 6870 and HD 6850 video cards.
The GPU packs 960 unified streaming processors, 48 texture units, 128 Z/stencil ROP units as well as 32 color ROP units, and is connected with the 2GB of GGDR5 frame buffer via a 256-bit memory bus interface.
AMD's Radeon HD6970M GPU became available in Eurocom's systems at the beginning of last week.
Apart from the Panther 2.0, the Cougar, Cheetah 2.0 and Leopard models also got this new graphics card.
In 3DMark Vantage, the same system managed to score 22667 in performance mode while 3DMark 11 returned only 5689 points.
Configured with a single 6970M, the Panther 2.0 scored 19907 in 3DMark 06.
The Panther 2.0 is designed to replace traditional desktop-based workstations and is available for purchase from Eurocom's website.