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    NVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT SLI vs Mobility Radeon HD 4670

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by knlmwq, Aug 13, 2009.

  1. knlmwq

    knlmwq Notebook Consultant

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    Im not to educated on graphics cards. I am wondering which one of these cards is the better graphics card. Also would I notice a huge drop off if I went with a Mobility Radeon HD 3670. I would like to play games such as TombRaider Underworld and also Call of Duty.

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    EviL Ras Notebook Consultant

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    Not all games support SLI, so I'd say it's a better idea to go with a very good single card rather than 2 OK cards, unless every game you play specifically supports 2 cards.

    8700m is like old old old technology, the current nVidia cards are the 2-series now. I can testify that the 4670 runs marvellously, apparently it's somewhere between the 9700m and 9800m, and it runs games very well. I have videos (link in sig) of gaming on a 4670.
     
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    That is an interesting graph, because they show the HD4670 above the 8700M GT SLI, but the 8700M GT SLI is superior in all the 3DMark benchmarks they show in that graph. Of course real world game performance could be different, as 3DMark is considered a synthetic benchmark.