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    540m vs 5850 DDR3

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by MobileStationary, Jan 11, 2011.

  1. MobileStationary

    MobileStationary Notebook Consultant

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    Which of these 2 combos would be better for gaming? Id go by the graphic card rank lists but apparently those arent so accurate..

    1st combo:
    Intel® Core™ i5 450M 2x 2,40 GHz
    8192 MB DDR3 RAM
    NVidia Geforce GT540M 1024MB DDR3 with Optimus support

    2nd combo:
    AMD Phenom II X4 N930 4x 2,00 GHz
    4096MB DDR3 Ram
    ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850 1024MB DDR3

    both cost exactly the same
     
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  2. Ruckus

    Ruckus Notebook Deity

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    Depends.

    If you want better battery then go with the i5+540M. If you want gaming performance, no question the Phenom + 5850M.
     
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  3. MobileStationary

    MobileStationary Notebook Consultant

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    can you explain that more relatively? how better would the battery life be? how better the gaming performance? thanks
     
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  4. Ruckus

    Ruckus Notebook Deity

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    No need, all the information you need is already available on NBR and on google. Seriously, don't be lazy. It takes at most 5 minutes of searching.
     
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  5. City Pig

    City Pig Notebook Virtuoso

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    The 5850 is a much, much faster card and can be overclocked. For gaming, it's no contest.
     
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  6. Ryan

    Ryan NBR Moderator

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    Problem is guys, the 5850 is DDR3.

    With the 128bit bus, it is going to be seriously bottlenecked by the memory.

    That is not the conventional 5850 GDDR5 we have seen around in many models.

    I honestly do not know therefore, how the two match up..
     
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  7. john2000

    john2000 Notebook Guru

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    Aye the 5850 is the DDR3 which is far weaker than the DDR5. The 5850 should still be better though I reckon.

    Also although it's not quad the i5 clock speed is quicker than the AMD so it will run better for most games as the more cores you have the more likely they will sit idle on day to day use. Most games still aren't optimized for quad! Clock speed is still the better indicator for day to day use and dual core still runs well and faster than a lot of quads apart from extremes. You'll be able to upgrade an i5 at some point anyway so in that regard it is superior.

    Harder choice than most seem to think. Both look competent laptops, have a look what upgrade options you have on the GPUs before making a decision.
     
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  8. MobileStationary

    MobileStationary Notebook Consultant

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    this is why i made this thread, i think everyone here always automatically assumes the card has GDDR5. I think only the huge minority of laptops with a 5850 have the GDDR5 version.
     
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    2.0 Former NBR Macro-Mod®

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    Thread closed.

    In the future, please see sticky threads in this section before starting a thread of this nature.

    Thanks.
     
    2.0, Jan 11, 2011
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