14" laptop..nvidia go 6150 or 7200

7200 seems to have 128 dedicated, but 6150 has 288 shared, if I have 2Gigs of ram, which card is better for me. Vista premium installed using Aero. AMD x2 or core 2 duo.

The duo2 offers the 7200 the amd x2 offers the 6150. Help

 

The 7200 is a better card. Either CPU will be fine for most applications.


GPU guide for more info.

 

First of all, the 7200 only has 32mb dedicated and the rest is shared. However the 7200 will still crush the 6150 even though it is a very, very low end card. Secondly the core 2 duo is much faster than the AMD chip.

 

but the 7200 shares up to 128 as opposed to the 6150 with upto 288. how can that be better.

 

It's not all about memory.

Also, although the C2D may bench higher (depending on chip, cache, etc) in real-world applications you will not see a difference.

As I mentioned peruse the GPU guide and related threads in this forum.

 

true story, intels large l2 cache tilts the table towards c2d in benchmarking progs.

 

You might also want to take a look at a few benchmark scores. In 3Dmark 05, the go6150 only scores around 600 points whereas the go7200 scores about 1500. These scores can give you a pretty clear understanding as to which card is faster.

 

Memory is secondary to the processing capacity of the GPU, and the 7200 GPU is much better (relatively speaking). Both are entry level GPU processors - you can probably play most games, but only at low resolution and graphic detail. Except for 3D rendering, you'll find either GPU acceptable for mos purposes.

 

"but the 7200 shares up to 128 as opposed to the 6150 with upto 288. how can that be better."

The 6150 is slow to retrieve data from system memory, but the 7200, with it's own memory, is much faster in this respect.

Although the 7200 is a superior graphics card, the 6150 will offer better battery life. The thing is that in most cases the drawbacks of getting the 7200 are so small that it is worth it.

 

if the price is around the same, I would definately go for the one with 7200.
It has a better processor, and a better graphics card.
Still, none of them is good for games or anything, but I don't assume that's what you're going to run, either.