GMA 950 Vs X3100 Vs 8400M G

I started a similar post in the "General discussion" forum, but was told to post here. The Question is which of the following is better equipped for gaming.


Core Duo 2.00 Ghz (not Core 2 Duo)
1 GB Ram
GMA X3100 or GMA 950
Vista Home Premium

OR

Turion TL-58 X2 (1.9 Ghz)
2 GB Ram
Nvidia GeForce 8400M G (128 MB Dedicated Ram, upto 800MB Turbo Cache)
(Note: 8400M G NOT 8400M GS or GT)
Vista Home Premium

More Particularly I am interest in the performance comparison between the three Graphic Solutions.

Thank You.

 

Although none of them is suited for games the 8400M G would win by a large margin due to it's dedicated ram and SM 4 support.
8400M G
X3100
GMA 950

 

I would pick the second one, although it's the worst of the mobile geforce 8 series it's still better than the x3100 and smokes the 950. Those two processors are pretty similar as well, so you don't have to worry about that.

 

None of them will play todays games. Even the 8400M G is a crippled GPU with a laughable 8 streaming processors and crippled 64 bit memory.

 

well your wrong, because they will PLAY them....just at probably the lowest setting

 

I agree that it will not play the high end games, but at low settings some of todays games can be played, for example, I play call of duty 4 on it, with low settings.

 

well probably not crysis, thats a given, but honestly the 8400 should be good for almost everything else at low settings, and could player older games quite well. Go for the second laptop, the processor difference isnt a big deal, integrated GFX are pretty much just for running a display, and some very low end gaming

 

well I can run crysis at 852x480 and medium at 10 FPS with my GS so I think the G can at least run it at lowest.

 

I have the second laptop, but for some reason Fifa 06 runs better on my friends laptop (The First one). Its more smoother than mine.

 

Not everyone's goal in life is to play crysis -.-

 

avarage 10 FPS=unplayable...

 

The point is if you have any of those GPUs you will not be play todays games as they will look awful with details all the way down. The best you can do with those GPUs is DX8 era games.

 

Not everyone cares about image quality either.

The 8400M-G should be able to run any modern game at lowest settings and resolution without too many problems, especially if OC'd.

 

Can't agree with you more.

odin243 is right also.

 

Thats not true at all. I get 30-40fps in UT3 on my 8400M GS with screen set to 100% and details set to 3/3 (out of 5).

The 8400 series is VERY underrated.

I can also play Gears of War at the same settings with the same frame-rates.

Crysis ran okay, as long as I played with the settings. But I only tried the demo. I'm one of those people that really isn't interested in yet another FPS set in a tropical environment. I love the tropics, but we can only have so many games that play the same set in the same setting before it gets old.

 

Sorry but I will use veto power.

I play current games in my laptop at around low to mid settings and it still looks great for me.

Please don't underrate 8400 series cards because they can still be pretty good.

Played games like world in conflict, Halo 2, Ghost recon 2, Phantasy star universe at decent settings. i get about 23-25 fps.

 

I don't know the difference between the G and GS version of the 8400, but I know that many of the 8400m GS cards have gddr3 memory which has turned out to be a beast when it comes to overclocking. I've seen 3dmark05 scores of 4600+ and 3dmark06 scores of 2300+ out of the card with aggressive OCing. I know these are just synthetic benchmarks, but that blows the Go7600 out of the water which is supposed to be superior to the 8400m GS.

 

It is in gaming. The 8400M GS in the Dell Vostro 1400 can be overclocked wso that it has a better 3Dmark05 score than a go7700. It's no where near that in gaming (the go7700 is in the 8600M GS league). And while the go7700 is better than a 7600, it's not by a huge amount.

 

My last machine had a Go7600 in it (dv8000t), and from seeing game benchmarks and synthetic ones, it seems the 8400m GS is just barely behind the Go7600 with both at default clocks. The Go7600, while having a wider memory bus, doesn't have gddr3 memory like the 8400m, and by overclocking the 8400m's memory, you can make up a lot of that memory bus deficit. I would be willing to bet I could get more gaming power out of an OC'd 8400m than I could out of my old OC'd 7600. I'll have to wait and see. My Vostro should be here later today and I'll do some comparisons.

 

is the difference between GMA 950 and X3100 worth $50 lol?

like can i play starcraft 2 with either of them?