MATLAB: Does BENCH command in MATLAB 7.6 (R2008a) display best performance for an older graphics card Nvidia GeForce MX400

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When I execute the BENCH command at MATLAB command prompt it gives me a table of performance of different operating systems with different configuration.
The system which performs the best on 3d plots uses Nvidia GeForce MX400 graphics card.
This is a 4-5 years old graphics card. I was wondering why such an old graphics card gives best performance? If I use the latest version of Nvidia GeForce MX800 series graphics card, will MATLAB give better performance?

Best Answer

The BENCH command is a relative comparison between the current machine and other machines on which MATLAB's performance was tested. It is not necessary that the newest graphics card will give better performance. An important thing to keep in mind, while selecting graphics card, is that it should support hardware OpenGL. If the new graphics card and its driver does not support hardware OpenGL it can cause performance degradation.
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