Radeon HD 6990M or GeForce GTX 485M for gaming?

I checked out some framerates and found that the 6990 gets higher framerates, but has anyone had any issues downloading drivers or anything?

I currently have a laptop with an integrated video card from AMD, and have had the HARDEST time ever to download a working video card driver. I managed to find one after hours of searching on random websites, which is somewhat ridiculous.

Would be great for any advice on these cards!

 

it actually depends on the OEM that you bought it from, AMD mobility program is basically an opt out program, only sony and toshiba have chosen to do so.

if you want mobility drivers dont try to install desktop ones, it will fail, hard.

 

485m when clocked will be faster than a 6990m but difference will be almost negligible when the 6990m is clocked as well. Driver's on both sides are pretty poor compared to desktops but nvidia are usually slightly better. Price should be your main deciding factor.

 

Yeah I bought from HP, they never updated the drivers for that laptop for some reason. I also tried from the AMD mobility part of the website, none of them would install anything!

So they're both just about the same? I was planning on buying from Malibal and both are the same price.. Just wasn't sure since one gets slightly higher FPS apparently, but if it's not noticeable then I'd probably go with nvidia!

 

what model is your hp?

nonsense. Although I agree that whatever the buyer feels best is what they should go for. For me its price, performance, support.

 

It's the 6735b... which recently became discontinued, but even before it was, there were just almost no working drivers lol. It is about 3-4 years old I think so maybe that's why?

It's a tough choice since both cards are the same price right now at Malibal... I'm actually leaning towards the 6990m now from a couple comparisons/reviews, even though I somewhat don't like AMD!

 

That is why, it was before the new opt out program, before that AMD had an opt in program, which basically no one bothered to join

 

lol!


I'll note, on Sony being "Opt out," most of their mainstream laptops with AMD GPU (i.e, excluding only the Z21 with it's external GPU), you can simply goto the "individual components" download tab of the AMD mobility driver page, and download the ~90MB driver package and it will install properly Even on the S 2011 lines switchable GPU, it works flawlessly. Intel drivers only needed minor modification to make it work (something a member may of gleaned from the Dell/Alienware Intel+AMD GPU setups).

 

Indeed I didnt mention the tweaks that you could do to get it working, and they are simple enough.

However to get drivers for a 3-4 years old card is always going to be a pain, I remember hunting drivers for the HD 2500 (or something like that) took me 2 hours to find something compatible with windows 7

 

Actually, that will only update the CCC from the individual tab. It does not update your driver because it does not contain a driver package.

 

Go for 6990m
cheapest and fastest card

 

Ah so I'm assuming this meant that companies would have to opt in to get drivers or something along these lines? I guess that would be my problem lol.

I'm pretty sure I'll will go for the 6990m then ...

 

yes it was a simple subscription, but they didnt do it (as far as I remember), now you have to subscribe to be out of it.

 

It updates the drivers, CCC2, media decoders (please for the love of all that is tech, do NOT confuse the former Avivo package with this... given that you have already confused the CCC package with the CCC2 GUI), AND apparently the PowerMizer profile.

 

It really doesn't update the video driver, avivo, hydravision, and cap . It only updates the CCC.
Since you use this method to update your 'driver'.

Give me your Driver Packaging Version string...
The WHQL AMD mobility driver 11.8 version is 8.881-110728a-122944C-ATI.

The only one with the driver download component for the mobility on the site is
the auto installer which check if your model isn't supported according to their release note.

 

This. I tried it with my Toshiba laptop, and it most definitely does not install the display driver.

As a matter of fact, if you try to open CCC after you have installed it using that package only, you simply won't be able to, since the machine in question is either running a different version of the driver, or presumably using the default Microsoft one.

However, what you can do in this case is do a search on the internet of that driver version for the FULL package. The only reason Sony and Toshiba notebooks can not install the driver directly from AMD's downloader is because they are blacklisted in the downloader only, not the driver installer package.