I've just got a Sony VAIO CW2 with a GT 330M GPU and have read that the chip is throttled from the default settings. The source is a review at www.notebookjournal.de/tests/laptop-review-sony-vaio-vpc-cw2s1-nkrt-1101, translated with Google Translate.
According to www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-GT-330M.22437.0.html the GT 330M should run at a speed that is higher than what is reported by CPU-Z:
Core Speed: 575 MHz vs my speed of 475 MHz
Shader Speed: 1265 MHz vs my speed of 1045 MHz
Memory Speed: 1066 MHz vs my speed of 680 MHz
The summary is that the chip is performing a fair bit below what it should; according to the review the throttled GT 330M performs at a level of a GT230M or GT 240M:
"As already slowing in the FW-Series Sony Series CW2 also in the clock speeds of the graphics card. Around 100 MHz can be throttled back the clock of GPU and memory. The effects of the low clock visible in the performance values. It's a good 6000 points can get hold of the Sony CW2 in 3DMark 06 - 1000 points less than the Samsung R580 with almost identical hardware."
Any ideas if this can be "fixed", so that the GPU runs at defaults levels?
