A gaming comparision of laptop graphics cards

Moderator: Could this be stickied? I've posted it in three different forums in like the last 15 minutes. (Request denied.)

"The following games list showes all notebook graphic cards (GPUs) sorted by the approximate performance"
Computer Games on Laptop Graphic Cards - Notebookcheck.net Tech

 

If not, it is definitely still going in my bookmarks! Thanks!

 

Isn't that the first site you go to to check notebooks anyway? Weird that no one would know.

 

To be honest, the first site I go to is here....

 

Well then you're getting the info from the people that are getting their info from there. "Secondary" source, so to speak, with varying bits of background knowledge on hardware/software usually.

 

To the OP: the big majority of people in this forum (gaming) already know of Notebookcheck existence. In general it is a good source of info but it can hardly be used as a precise comparison tool given the kind of information processing they have (simple average of any config and any resolution, etc).

I see no reason (given its lack of precise accuracy) to make it a sticky.

 

I was going to post that link like a few days ago but then I realize everyone know about it since it the first site that come up on google, and there isn't even that many notebook graphic card comparison sites so it hard to miss.

 

Sticky this: AnandTech - AnandTech Mobile Graphics Guide, Summer 2011

But most gamers don't like reading

 

And because it is hard to miss in a quick google check is why there should be awareness of their not too good ranking. Including the fact that cards that come in 2 or more models (say with GDDR3 and GDDR5 versions) are averaged together into a single number, thus heavily biasing the info displayed. Or otherwise said: each ranking should be read with all the fine print from the models used to get it.

 

not to mention the bias towards the nvidia, and the rank that dont hold a candle to reality

 

I haven't followed the case of the Nvidia bias, just what is said here in NBR, but the ranking really needs a huge depurance (tens of rows with card models that never got to see the light... or simply there's no info) and take out the 6 ranks they assign, they reflect nothing.

 

yeah and what I didnt like in the anandtech piece is that:

1) they lack the database, its guesstimation time for a lot of what is out there
2) they dont know that amd has switchable gpus
3) they still think that nvidia has better drivers based on the above premise, they are equals at this time, and while the sony non binding to the drivers update program is awful, you dont need to mod anything like in the case of nvidia to get those to work. (this is all in the sony side)

The ranking system of notebookcheck suffers from nvidia bubble, oh the things that I see there!

 

Sticky request denied - if it was a guide native to NBR I would say yes. But it's on another site.

 

I find that notebookcheck.net is a very good resource to quickly gauge comparisons between video cards. They have gotten better, and not sure why people are so critical of them. Ignore the rankings, and compare the benchmarks and card details. Their benchmarks they run all at same settings, so it's a fair comparison.

But it doesn't need to be stickied. Maybe a link in a video card FAQ, but doesn't deserve a sticky in itself.

 

Well originally I created this in the "What Notebook Should I Buy?" board and wanted it stickied there. I realize this is the "right" spot for the thread.

The idea though was to reduce the number questions about how one graphics card compares to another in the "What Notebook Should I Buy?" board. I suspect most of the first time posters in that forum don't look at this board...

 

Actually it is a fair review with actual review links! It's excellent information for all current-gen GPU owners or future buyers.

 

Agreed on 1 and 3, but the article mentioned (a little) about AMD swtichable GPUs.

 

they only mentioned bacon, they failed to mention that the best thing about most of the amd laptops have a manual switch

 

That is true, and speaking of which they also failed to mention the horrors of users with Optimus not able to automagically switch when required (or having to use a 'whitelist' to susbstitute a bad programming issue).

 

they also failed to mention on the what happens when whitelisting dont work

 

He also has not got all the combinations of the 555m listed and got it wrong as to which are most common.

 

I think is was overall a good start for this kind of guides. I like seeing mobile gaming being talked on these sites.
As you guys said, there are things to correct and improve. I'd personally add a note about performance for buck, since the 6970M and GTX 580M were the most expensive GPUs from either vendor at the time but were no where close between them in price.

Cheers!