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    XPS 17 (L702X) -- Is the 555M DDR3 or GDDR5 version?

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by Juanderful, Jun 30, 2011.

  1. Juanderful

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    Perhaps this has been answered before, though I can't seem to find any information on it...

    but is the GT 555M card on the L702X the GDDR5 version or DDR3 version?
     
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    Yes, it's DDR3 so performance suffers badly. GT 555M gets beat in benchmarks by a GTX 260M (3 generation old technology).
     
    Tsunade_Hime, Jun 30, 2011
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    My friend has his 555M massaged gently and it comes within a hair of a stock GTX 460M with no big temp increase :). Should've just put 2GB of DDR5 instead of 3GB of DDR3. Makes no sense why they did that. Not like the GPU is going to use anywhere near 3GB.
     
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    Ya but considering you can get a decent ASUS G series laptop with a 260M for what, 300-400 and for the money it stomps an XPS 17 flat. Point being XPS has never been a serious serious gaming machine since...M1730 with available SLI 9800M GTX. I wonder why Dell since then have not put out a machine like the M1730. I can only assume to promote Alienware as profit margins are higher over there.
     
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    I am a noob about GPU, why it will not take full advantage of all 3GB?
     
    ExMM, Jun 30, 2011
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