Desktop (G92) 8800GTS vs Laptop 8800M GTS

Clearly the laptop version will be slower, but for example, my Inspiron's 8600M GT performed on par with my brother's desktop 8600 GT. I tried to look into this some and found one reviewer who said the Best Buy gateway scored 1000 less in 3dmark06 than his desktop with the 640MB (G90) 8800GTS. So is the performance really THAT much less, or is the score likely because the best buy gateway comes with a terrible CPU? Also I ask about the G92 because I am clearly not going to waste money on the G90 when the G92 is better and the same price.

 

It's about 20% LESS powerful than desktop brother IMHO.

 

That's what I was afraid of. I'm about to spend ~1000 on a gaming system, and I'm trying to decide if I want to do a desktop with GREAT specs or if I should get that Best Buy laptop and swap the CPU and HDD with my XPS M1330. This kinda settles it though, besides, I can't find that best buy deal anymore, the link I had saved does not work so I think the deal is over!

 

20- 40% slower in some cases. . same thing with my 8800m gtx.

 

Thanks for the replies.

 

For gaming,nothing beats a desktop system.If you don't need to carry it with you get a desktop and you have more room for OC,upgrade etc.

 

With some overclocking you´ll be fine. But desktops beats the laptops. Laptop GPU´s are usually skimped in some areas like clock settings and memory settings and with the case 8800m GTX Shader Processors.

 

The mobile 8800M GTX (G92) is about equivalent to the desktop 8800 GTS (G92)

 

Gophn I don't think thats true. The old 8800 GTX (G80) desktop is even faster than the 8800M GTX and the 8800 GTS (G92) is faster than the 8800 GTX (G80). Most people same that the 8800M GTX performs similar to the 8800 GTS 320 MB (G80). Please feel free to correct me if I have erred.

 

I would agree with smood, the 8800M GTS is cut back to 64 stream processors afaik, the same as a desktop 9600gt for example

 

yea that sounds about right, except the 8800gtx beats the g92 8800gts in high resolutions, but thats a whole other topic. This is the reason why i built a desktop for my main gaming and then bought a light gaming laptop.

the 8800m gtx may peform better in some benchmarks actually then the 8800 gts g80...the gts g80 has a higher memory bandwidth and less memory..the gtx has more memory but slower mem bandwidth...i think if you took the 8800m gtx clocks to that of a gts g80...which i belive is like 50-60 mhz faster on the core..the 8800m gtx is def better

all in all, if you want nice gaming, and upgradeability, build yourself a desktop, then buy some cheap laptop for portability, unless you have one already...ive gamed on an xps laptop with dual gtx's...and its nice..but its nothing compared to my desktop, everything runs much smoother and looks better, especially with the huge amount of OCing you can do

and yes...a gts g92 will outperform a 8800m gtx easily

 

i'm not sure about that but i heard that 8800mGTX is about as powerful as 8800GTS 640mb. not sure though

 

Clocks is the same as the G80 GTS, 8800GTS 640MB has a 320 Bit Wide Bus. However I have two 8800m GTX in SLI myself in my XPS M1730 and these are crazy overclockers, I can easily overclock the core to 625 MHz and the Mem to 950. A desktop 8800GTX is actually a bad overclocker compared to G92 or 8800m GTX. I have a desktop 8800GTX myself and you don´t easily push 100+ MHz on the Core without any volt modding.

However with the 8800m GTX you can voltmod through Bios, there is a guy on the XPS M1730 thread that has voltmodded his through bios and pushed the core to 700MHz+ and Mem to 1000+, Shaders were at 1740 or something

But the desktop 8800GTX and Ultra still holds it own in benchmarks, as Halogod said 8800GTX is faster at higher res and with AA and AF

 

I'm building a new desktop rig as soon as the GTX 260 / 4870 are out...

You pay incredible money for a notebook with a lot of gaming horsepower.. Over 2000 euros in Ireland for a system with a single 8800m GTX

But I can build a Quad Core desktop rig with a GTX 260 or 4870 for only 800 euros or so...

The 8600 in my m1530 will be fine for my multi player gaming and lan parties etc, but when I want to crank the eye candy and get my e-peen on, desktop is the only way

 

Agreed, it's better to game on a desktop.
a 8800m gts is on par with a slightly under clocked 9600gt.

 

thats totally right but still Quadcores cant count for anything till now. so no need to worry about the laptop VS desktop thing except for the GTX 260 that is coming

 

Well, my q6600 has 8mb of cache and will do 3.6ghz

I don't see any laptop Core 2 in the 3.6ghz range yet!

 

I wouldn't want to stare my eyes on a 17" laptop playing games for hours, also the money spent on an SLI laptop can land yourself a decently powerful desktop already. If you want a true gaming experience, game on a desktop. Period. Quad Core, (Need a quad core as I do alot of 3ds Max rendering) 22" screen, the comfort, the 7.1 surround sound speakers, 8800 Ultra, what is there to complain about? Opps, looks like I've explained my sig by mistake...

 

still, Quadcores cant do hell with gaming yet. , and for the RAM in your sig, there is Laptop ram thats equalative to it, and the Ultra card is just an OCed 8800GTX which can be in range of SLI 8800m, but still. your system might be cheaper by a few hundred dollars, and i think those extra hundreds are worth the mobility

 

I customize this not to compare but to use - Workstation use and also some various games. And Quadcores beats the hell out of Dual cores on 3ds Max rendering purposes. And I wouldn't buy a Quadro just for that and no, it's not a real gaming PC and I didn't say it was. As this system is nearly 7 months old, the only thing upgraded is its processor. Well I am aware Sager 9272 uses the same equal RAM but DDR2-1300 was expensive back then. And I bought the ultra for just 690 Singapore Dollars which is considered cheap. It's all in the fun of building these machines.

Now let's stick to the topic of thread.

 

I pondered on this as well... on whether I want something portable or powerful to have. Well when I am at home I hook up my xps m1730 to my 24 inch Dell LCD and the games run nice on it. I love the fact that I can take it to lans and not have to worry about lugging huge stuff around. Overall though investing in a gaming desktop is better in the long run. I myself just wanted something powerful to hold me off til the beginning of 2009 when the new Intel chips come out. Also as another side not, my electric bill has gone down significantly since I moved to a gaming laptop... just fyi.

 

If you have the money then SLI 8800m GTX in a laptop is awesome!

But, I had to decide if I wanted an incredible laptop and no desktop at all... OR a decent laptop and a good desktop...

This way I get the best of both worlds for me, I know some people would prefer having all the power in a portable solution but I love having a desktop that I can tweak / mod / overclock and stuff also