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    NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500M vs ATI FireGL V5200

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by Cith, Aug 10, 2006.

  1. Cith

    Cith Notebook Enthusiast

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    How does the performance in games of these two cards compare? Does one overwhelm the other significantly, are they about even? (In general, or ideally, specifically at higher resolutions, e.g. 1600*1200 or 1600*1050). I'm really torn at the moment between a HP NW9440 and an IBM T60p, and really agonizing over it!
     
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    masterchef341 The guy from The Notebook

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    according to their own benchmarks at ati.com and nvidia.com:

    i cant tell.

    so on my google hunt i determined that the desktop fire gl v5200 is essentially an x1600 part

    and the quadro 1500 uses the nvidia 7900 core

    that said, i dont know for sure, but looking through benches it seems that a quadro 1500m will outperform the v5200
     
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  3. Charles P. Jefferies

    Charles P. Jefferies Lead Moderator Super Moderator

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    What will you be doing with the notebook - gaming? If so, you shouldn't be looking at a Quadro or FireGL equpped notebook.
     
    Charles P. Jefferies, Aug 10, 2006
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  4. Cith

    Cith Notebook Enthusiast

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    Yes I will be gaming, but that is a secondary (albeit important) consideration. I've narrowed my list to these two for other reasons, but as gaming is still a consideration, and the differences between the cad angled vs gaming angled cards from ATI and NVidia are usually overblown in the great scheme of things, I am wondering how these cards compare for gaming, even if they're not perfectly tuned for it.
     
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  5. Charles P. Jefferies

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    The FX 1500M should be considerably faster than the V5200, given it is based on the Go7900GS, and the V5200 the Radeon X1600.
     
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    The problem you'll run into is the drivers won't support many of the features that the games utilize, and likely never will. ie, my buddy's Quadro doesn't show the water in Half Life 2, and it never will. The drivers for their workstation style cards just don't take into account gaming considerations.
    But like others have said, the FX 1500M is much faster.
     
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    Paul Mom! Hot Pockets! NBR Reviewer

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    The Quadro 1500M is quite a powerful card and the only game I've ever had problems with is Ford Racing 3. But I don't like that game anyway. I have no problem with water in Half Life 2, so I don't know what that's about. But even if it is a driver problem, you can use different drivers for the Quadro card. I've use Xtreme-G, laptopvideo2go and Dell's. Dell's tend to be my favortie overall, but I haven't noticed any difference in gaming between the drivers, I just like being safe with Dell drivers. So with the 1500M at least, you don't have to worry about driver problems. I'm actually using Xtreme-G's Vista drivers right now since I'm writing this in Beta 2. Version 88.61. I had laptopvideo2go v91.37 in XP before I reformatted.
     
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