Difference between geforce and geforce go?

What is the actual difference?I know go is for notebooks and geforce is for desktops, but is there any performance difference? is GeForce 7600GS better than GeForce Go 7600GS? Or is it just a name for notebook nvidia graphics cards?

Thanks!

EDIT: Sorry wrong forum! I thought I was in the gaming forum.

 

Go's don't take as much power as the desktop GeForce and thus don't have as much performance.

 

GeForce 7600 = desktop card
GeForce Go7600 = a GeForce 7600 adopted for mobile use. It is not as powerful as mentioned and uses less power, and thus produces less heat.

 

Interesting... so how come they make, say, a go 7900, which I guess is equivalent to something like 7600 non go, in a laptop when they can put the 7600 non go inside instead? Isn't it the same thing?

 

They can't put a 7600 in a notebook. It would draw way too much power, and it would run quite hot. GO cards are specifically for the notebook market, and so they have much reduced power consumpton. To reduce power consumption, clock speeds have to be lowered, and in most cases, to reduce it significantly and still get resonable performance out of them, manufacturers have to develop new cores. Most of the graphics cards that are out today, have very much different cores that their desktop counterparts.

 

Thanks, zero,

Okay I get it, so they're different not better/worse right? In that case... Which one's better, GeForce 7600GS 512mb (my home computer) or Go 7900GS 256mb (the notebook I plan on buying).

Thanks again

 

The 7900 is more powerful.

 

It is difficult to compare desktop cards and mobile cards, but in this case, as vespoli has pointed out, the Go 7900 GS will be faster.

 

That's right. It is a difficult comparison - notebook to desktop - when it comes to GPU performance. There are a lot of other factors that are not taken into account besides the graphics card - the desktop's processor, memory subsystem, are usually faster, and the desktop might have a dedicated sound card, which adds to its performance advantage.

 

Well I guess you have a point, my home computer is Athlon 64 X2 2.4ghz... So i guess that has quite a performance boost. The laptop I'm looking for has 2 gigs o ram (1 more than my home), and core 2 duo 2.0ghz. What might the comparison be?

 

I would guesstimate that the gaming performance difference between the Athlon X2 2.4GHz and the Core 2 Duo 2.0GHz is minimal, so at least that is a reasonably fair comparison. The Core 2 Duo is an excellent gaming processor.

 

It's not that hard to compare the two cards. Just look at Nvidia's website and check out the specs between the two....

*Offtopic* - What is a ATI radeon mobile x1400 equivalent to, as in Nvidia desktop card? Just wondering cause I was setting up my cuz's new laptop and he has a x1400. Not too savy with ATI/AMD products....

Mike.

 

Even better than the AMDs? I thought that AMD was the king of gaming.

(x1400 is between go 7400 and 7600 about)

Also, is the 2.00 ghz core duo worth 300$ comparred to the 1.73 ghz? Is there a big difference>?

 

Depends on what you wish to do. If word processing and Internet surfing is what you want to do, then any will do, because the speed of the 2.00 GHz isn't used. In that case, I wouldn't spend $300 on it at all.

Second is, that you game quite a bit, and you want to have some speed. In that, case the 1.73 GHz processor is still strong, but it may be a little weak, if you have a powerful graphics processor. In this case, it would be better to go with something like a Core 2 Duo T5500 or T5600.

Finally, if you do heavy encoding and video rendering, then you should go for the 2.00 GHz model. It has more L2 cache, and also a bit more speed. It also hs a sligjtly larger FSB at 667 Mhz, which will help in data tranfer.