GeForce Go 6150 desktop equivalent?

I'm planning on getting a laptop with this card because I couldn't care less about any game made in the last 2 years other than Morrowind.

What's this card equivalent to? I can play any game I want to play with pretty high settings on my Radeon 8500 (probably itself around a geforce 4 4200). Is the go 6150 around that good with dx9 support added in? Or even slower?

 

Sorry, the 6150 is a lil slower than that. I think a comparison to the Geforce 4 MX series is more accurate. It can play games, but not at high settings.

A Go 7200 is roughly around the range of the Ti4200.

 

The 6150 go.... is like the 6150 integrated graphics on desktop motherboards (like mine, though I use an x1900gt).

 

Hi saneless, believe it or not, the Go 6150 is pretty much identical to....a desktop 6150!

I would say it's close enough to the 8500/Geforce 4Ti actually if you can indentify with those better, in fact it's probably better because it supports newer features. Either way though, it's not good for new games, but its fine for older games and quite good at old-ish games like Half Life 2 and Far Cry.

 

That's the problem when comparing cards of different generations, in that one has certain features over the other, but how useful these features are is down to the actual power behind the card. For raw power, the Ti4200 is a better card, albeit not by a large margin as some would have you believe. The 6150 may have Shader Model 3, but with only 2 pipelines it lacks the processing power to put this technology to any use.

In theoretical terms, Ti4200 was 4 pixel pipelines x 300 = Pixel output of 1200M/Pixels a second
6150 I believe to be 2 PP x 475 = 950 Mpixels/sec. Memory bandwidth is going to be lower on the 6150, but I can't see you playing with AA/AF so its not going to affect you tremendously. Also remember that Nvidia stopped implementing optimizations for the 4 series long ago, so some games will have an advantage on the newer cores as engineers want to get the most out of them.

In short, it'll be slower than the Ti4200, but not by such a margin that the games you currently play you will not be able to run again.

 

Great, thanks for the help guys. I figure for what I have I should be ok, luckily I'm not much of a gamer.. I wouldn't mind the mass market sims/myst level of requirements and it sounds like the card will do that fine.

 

The 6150 will handle the sims 2 quite well.

 

Is the 7200 worth the $75 premium (since I have to get the damned different finish)

 

Not really, it's a small bit better but if you only plan playing older games, then it's not worth it. In fact the 6150 is an integrated card so less noise, with no fan - the 7200 will create more noise and heat.

I would say stick with the 6150 as both are low end cards and seeing as you're only going to be playing older games anyway, the 6150 should be fine.

 

Wow, someone not recommending an upgrade.. what's the world coming to

Guess as long as spore works I'd be happy

 

Dude the 6150 gets a 3DMark 05 score of 650. The Geforec GO 7200 get 1500-1800.

 

The Go 7400 scores between 1500 and 1800.

The Go 7200 should be scoring half to 2/3 that.

 

3dmark 05 scores are worthless to me. I'm playing mark 01 level games, 03 TOPS.

 

Actually, the 7200 does get ~1500. Thats what I got when I had a dv2000t.

 

Yeah im a little worried about spore on my 7400, I may have to do some overclocking for that.

 

Really? I'm not. I'm sure even the 950 could probably handle it, knowing EA's dedication to letting their massive mass market games run on machine with poo graphics cards but good CPUs (like most desktops sold in the last few years). They're not like FPS developers, they don't want to actually push the envelope if it means killing off sales.

 

I Also have a Question about the Geforce Go 6150... Do you think that i can Run the new MMORPG Game called Vanguard, Pretty smoothly on a 6150???

 

dont want to burst your bubble but... no way is that possible at least from every thign ive seen on it. if you have the laptop now you can run the system requirements lab test on it to see if your graphics card will run it ( www.systemrequirementslab.com or somethign like that)

 

What if i were to put the Quality on low... would i be able to play with out lag??

 

Also instead do you think the GO 7600 will run Vanguard alright?? its 256 mb installed video ram???