Some graphics cards info.

I wanted to know the importance of these things to the graphics cards:
Pipelines, Core Speed, Shader Speed, Memory Speed, as I've been reading some articles with these specs of some of the graphics cards and wanted to know their impact so I can decide which 1 to get.

 

This site might be very useful:

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Mobile-Graphics-Cards-Benchmark-List.844.0.html

Shows the different benchmarks of mobility GPUs.

 

Benchmarks there should be taken with a grain of salt though, as they don't state any other important specs such as CPU and drivers. This thread by Chaz is slightly more useful I think.

 

stick with the GPU Guide

and read this if you havent yet:
How It Works: Graphics Hardware

 

Notebookcheck gets a lot of bad press on these boards, but with that grain of salt (with which it must be taken, I agree), it is the single most useful place to compare GPUs. They are the only site that I know of to compile such an exhaustive list. Chaz's list does not include the most recent cards (260, 280, etc.) and does not supply numbers.

I agree that the numbers on notebookcheck aren't perfect, but they are the best around. What you can't trust, however, is their ranking (order listed), which sometimes seems pretty random.

 

I recommend you read those 2 articles as well.

 

thnx a lot for all of the replies

 

the list doesn't include them because we don't know enough about it.