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    Old Gfx comparison: go5200 vs mobility 9000

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by Pascalion, Jul 16, 2008.

  1. Pascalion

    Pascalion Newbie

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    I've been using an old laptop- Dell inspiron 5150 with a 3.06ghz p4 and a mobility radeon 9000. My sister recently got a new laptop, and wanted to sell her inspiron 5150 that was a newer model than mine, running a 2.80ghz P4 and a geforce go 5200.

    I ran gpu-z- the radeon seems to be the weaker card. Specifically, it has a 64bit bus, 32mb of memory, the bandwidth is 3.1ghz, and a pixel and texture fillrate of 1.0G (Pexel/Texel)/s. The geforce has a 128 bit bus, 64mb of ram, 6.3gb bandwidth, but a .8G fillrate on pixels and textures.

    It seems pretty clear that the geforce pc beats out the radeon one, I assume despite the higher fillrate on the radeon for textures/pixels.

    My feeling is to take my sister's laptop and sell my laptop instead, since her's would be better for games.

    Am I correct in my analyzation?

    Edit: analyzation? Is that even a word? Should be analysis.
     
  2. Hep!

    Hep! sees beauty in everything

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    You're correct, the 5200 is by a significant margin the better card. The 5200 was meant to compete with the 9200, plus the additional VRAM should help you out. I couldn't imagine playing any modern or close to modern games on a Radeon 9000 mobility. A 5200FX, however, I could see a possibility of some lowest settings TF2, Call of Duty (original) etc.
     
  3. Jlbrightbill

    Jlbrightbill Notebook Deity

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    Well... my progression went FX5200 > X300 > 8600M GT. The X300 was about double the performance of the FX5200 and even my X300 had a rough time in the original HL2 even at 1280x800. So yes, it's better, but that's still a bleak system for anything modern.