Laptop grapics

[uther100]

Whats better a 64 meg shared graphics card or one with 32 seperate?

 

[davemar14]

I would say a seperate card with 32 MB. When you run shared memory, it takes memory from the system memory and uses it as video memory. This gives you less memory and a slower machine. Also the speed of the memory will be a lot slower using system memory than if you use video card memory. Nvidia has some good mobile chips. They have a GeForce4 and GeForce FX graphics cards.

 

[uther100]

I've heard that integrated was getting better but I have never seen any benchmarks

 

[Howard]

32 seperate. 64 mb shared means that the graphic card takes 64mb of the memory. This is something that you could adjust, however. If you have 256mb of ram, 64mb shared ram, you'll basically be left with 196mb of ram for your system.

 

[uther100]

well most laptops in that range seem to have 512 megs and I know what shared means but I'm wondering which has better overall performance?

 

[daddywags214]

ALWAYS go dedicated when you can. ATi's new Mobile 9600 Pro wipes the floor with other mobile chipsets.

Tit for tat, butter for fat, ATi's dog kicks nVidia's cat

(Maximum PC)

 

[cleeve]

A separate graphics card will have better performance because it will have much more efficient (and speedier) access to the memory.