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    GeForce 9800m GTS vs. GeForce GTX 280M

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by NlessxNightmare, Jul 25, 2009.

  1. NlessxNightmare

    NlessxNightmare Notebook Enthusiast

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    which one is better?


    i meant the "GeForce GTX 260M" *
     
    NlessxNightmare, Jul 25, 2009
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    The GTX 280M is the top card right now.
     
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    Cheeseman Eats alot of Cheese

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    The Geforce 9800M GTS is a good card and will run most present games at high/medium settings just fine, but the Gefore GTX 280M is a newer generation mobile GPU and much more powerful card having with twice the shader power. As such it will run games that much better.
     
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    oops sorry i meant the "GTX 260M"
     
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    Cheeseman Eats alot of Cheese

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    The Geforce GTX 260M will still be more powerful than a Geforce 9800M GTS, almost twice as powerful actually. The Geforce GTX 260M and Geforce GTX 280 are pretty close in terms of power so you can't go wrong with either.
     
    Cheeseman, Jul 25, 2009
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    SoundOf1HandClapping Was once a Forge

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    I'll confirm that.

    My Asus G50vt-X6 has a P8700 processor and a 9800m GS, which I overclocked to GTS. I could not get satisfactory gameplay on Crysis with 1280x720, no AA, high settings. It was playable, to be sure, but just barely so.

    My next one, a G51vx-RX05, with a weaker P7350 CPU has a GTX 260m. The 260m is underclocked in the Asus models. Raising the clocks back to standard 550/1375/950, and overclocking the CPU to 2.255GHz, I was able to get very smooth gameplay at 1366x768 resolution, all high (with textures at Very High), no AA.

    The 260m is hands-down superior. That doesn't make the 9800m a weak card, mind you, quite the opposite.
     
    SoundOf1HandClapping, Jul 25, 2009
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    Gophn NBR Resident Assistant

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    9800M GS = 64 shaders
    9800M GTS = 64 shaders
    9800M GT = 96 shaders
    9800M GTX = 112 shaders

    GTX 260M = 112 shaders (smaller die and faster than 9800M GTX)
    GTX 280M = 128 shaders
     
    Gophn, Jul 25, 2009
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