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nVidia

	5950U	6800	% Increase over 5950U	6800U	% Increase over 5950U
3DMark 2003	6325	9059	43.23%	11,709	85.12%
Aquamark	51,520	54,398	5.59%	64,960	26.09%
% Increase over 5950U			24%		56%
Far Cry (Low) Average FPS	59.28	62.49	5.41%	63.95	7.88%
Far Cry (Medium) Average FPS	28.33	41.54	46.63%	55.81	97.00%
Far Cry (High) Average FPS	19.26	30.18	56.70%	42.65	121.44%
% Increase over 5950U			36%		75%
Halo (Low) Average FPS	49.14	69.17	40.76%	72.75	48.05%
Halo (Medium) Average FPS	37.88	58.76	55.12%	73.34	93.61%
Halo (High) Average FPS	27.88	43.72	56.81	58.62	110.26
% Increase over 5950U			51%		84%
Call of Duty (Low) Average FPS	92.1	100.8	9.45%	105.2	14.22%
Call of Duty (Medium) Average FPS	84.2	93.3	10.81%	99.3	17.93%
Call of Duty (High) Average FPS	73.4	83.5	13.76%	91.2	24.25%
% Increase over 5950U			11%		19%
Average % Increase over 5950U			31%		59%

Just like the ATi cards, the overall performance increases follows a similar trend, not quite to the heights of ATi. But it seems Call of Duty brings the overall average down quite a bit. This game is already running at very fast speeds, and is probably the last game needing a performance boost. Most notable is Far Cry with an average of 75% increase in performance, although this is slightly misconstrued considering it is CPU limited in "Low" settings. It is generally higher than that, with a 120% performace increase in "High" settings. This is similar to the ATi cards, but we'll see more about that in the next section.