NVidia GeForce Go 7600 vs. ATI Mobility X1600

I am currently looking into a laptop for University next year...i have the two narrowed down to the Asus W3J and the Toshiba A100-SK9

one of the biggest concerns that i have is that i want to make sure that the laptop i buy will be able to play the games i want it too.

one of the most demanding games i will be playing is the elder scrolls 4: oblivion
and so i want to be able to play this without major lagging

the asus w3j has the ATI mobility x1600, which i know is a dedicated 256mb and should be able to play most, if not all of the games i want it too.
But just recently i spotted the toshiba at the store that i work at and it has the NVidia GeForce Go 7600. we do not have it out on display so i cannot check to see if the card is dedicated or intergraded....so i was wondering if anyone knew if it was dedicated graphics. and which of the two cards is better.

thanks

 

The X1600 is faster, and also the Asus will have much better quality than a Toshiba. As long as the laptop has one of those two cards, I would decide based more on what else the laptop has; can't go wrong with either one.

 

Well, technically, x1600 excells better at softshadows than the 7600, but who knows. The x1600 outscored the 7600 in 3dmark05 and the 7600 beat the x1600 back in 3dmark06. God knows y, or mayb nvidia knows y.

Anyway, their on par with each other if their memory and clocked at recommended speed, decide the notebook on the build quality.

 

but is the 7600 dedicated?

 

How can it not be dedicated... Its an nVidia chipset... PCI x16 i guess

 

True, midrange gpu are all dedicated cards, none i hav seen till date that it is integrated. If there s any, someone show me....

Oh, from both of the machine there, i would take the w3j anyday.

 

Just a head's up. The 512 MB in the A8JM is overkill. Its a marketing scheme. I agree with Chaz, make your decision based on other things like build quality, optical drive (seems like a small issue, but depending on manufacturer, you could have SERIOUS issues).

 

What everyone else said.

Also, if oblivion is your concern, the x1600 is much better for oblivion than the 7600. The unfortuneate coding for that game runs best through radeon series cards.

 

if you are worried about lag, try and get a lappy with two gigs of memory, that will really help.