Lenovo vs. HP Z800
Posted by Robert Dow and Alex Garovi on June 25th 2009 | Discuss
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Hardware Review
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nvidia
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thinkstation
Lenovo S20 ThinkStation workstation. (Source: Jon Peddie Research)
The Lenovo S20 ThinkStation we tested had a W5580 Xeon 3.20GHz processors, 3 GB of 1.3 GHz DDR3 ECC RAM, a 7,200 RPM 500 GB HDD, and an Nvidia Quadro FX4800 AIB with 4 GB of GDDR3 RAM.
The S20 and the HP Z800 both have a Xeon W5580 @ 3.2 GHz processor, the main hardware difference between the two is that the HP is running with a Quadro FX 5800 AIB and Vista 64, while the Lenovo has Windows XP Pro and a Quadro FX 4800. Not quite the fair fight when it comes to graphics testing. However the Lenovo checked in with impressive scores
Viewperf ran flawlessly on the Lenovo with Windows XP.
We ran Viewperf on the HP Z800 in its guest Linux OS and in Windows XP on the Lenovo XP. Given the added horsepower of the HP unit, this test reveals the impact of the OS port of Viewperf results.
What was impressive from a Parallels perspective is that the Virtual Linux OS was able to outscore the Lenovo running XP during the Unigine testing. This is no doubt a result of the higher end Quadro card.
