Hallo, B. Bogart hat gesagt: // B. Bogart wrote:
Has anyone tried a benchmarking patch for Gem so we can compare these issues? I'm very curious about these intel gfx chips Frank and Marc have been talking about for years now.
For years?
Here are some benchmarks I googled up: http://www.notebookcheck.net/Mobile-Graphics-Cards-Benchmark-List.844.0.html
If you want or need the top of the line 3D performance then avoid the Intel chips. But you also should avoid the cheap ATi/Nvidia chips then, like the Xpress 200M or stuff like that.
On my home machine I run AMD, but I'm recommending the Intel notebooks over AMD based ones mostly because they I believe they are easier to setup, have better battery live for comparable performance, wireless works out of the box, BIOSses are often better and maybe some other reasons.
Of course everyone needs to do her/his own research especially in a market that moves as fast as the laptop market. But the price advantage AMD offers in this area is really marginal, so why bother? Because of 64bit?
Ciao
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