Windows Aero Performance Dilemma

[Jared_1]

I have two separate systems: a Dell Inspiron 530s and a Lenovo Thinkcenter (not sure what model).

 

Dell Inspiron 530s:

 

Intel Core 2 Duo E7400 @ 2.8GHz Dual Core

XFX AMD Radeon HD 5450 1GB GDDR3

3GB RAM (Long story)

 

Lenovo:

 

Intel Pentium E5500 @ 2.8GHz Dual Core

Intel G41 Graphics

4GB RAM

 

My Dell scores a 6 in gaming graphics but a 4.2 in Windows Aero. The Lenovo scores a 3.5 for gaming but a 4.3 in Windows Aero. So my question is, how does a terrible integrated beat a some what better PCIe graphics card @ Windows Aero performance.

 

 

Dell:

 

Lenovo:

 

[Dabombinable]

Intel integrated graphics are pretty much the baseline when it comes to Aero. The G33 graphics on my old motherboard smoked the Quadro NVS 110M in my laptop with Windows Aero, and the Quadro has 256MB vRAM as well and is a far more powerful GPU.

[Guest Kloaked]

Those scores are nothing to go off of.

[Kyuubixchidori]

those benchmarks are widely inaccrute, and should only be used as guessiments and not educated discussion. 

[ForsakenLive]

Windows score benchmarks in Windows 7 are dreadful. They are not only inaccurate but pure BS in some cases.

This is why they got removed in windows 8.