What is the difference...

I'm about to buy a notebook and would like to know if the difference between a NVIDIA® GeForce® Go 7600 and a NVIDIA® GeForce® Go 7400 is much. How about a NVIDIA GeForce Go 6150 or a Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950.
I am looking for a notebook that may enable me to play Halo online or other games. I just want to know if I would experiance much difference, Graphic Cards is not my strong suite
Thank you for you help

 

The best answer is to look for some benchmarks. Try looking the cards up on http://www.anandtech.com/ or http://www.tomshardware.com

That said, the last two you mention are integrated on the motherboard, which means lousy performance, and I'd definitely avoid those for gaming. Especially the GMA950.

The 7600 is probably the lowest I'd be wiling to go for any gaming system.

 

The 7600 outperforms the 7400 by a pretty large margin. I dont remember the exact numbers, but 3DMarks scores for the 7600 were somewhere around double the 7400's I think (I'll look this up a little later).

The 6150 and the Intel are both intigrated solutions and wont provide very much performance in games. They'll run most new games but not well at all. Older games should run with little to no problems at decent settings.

 

Yea the 7600 has about dourble the marks.

 

actually....no. it depends on how much vram the 7600go. if i remember correctly, the 7400go scores around 2200 3dmark05; 7600go with 512 mb vram (a8jm) gets around 3600-3800; 7600go with 256mb vram (compal hel80) is around 2900. i don't think the 6150 or the gma can break 1000.

 

I think it's ha something to do with how every manufacturer overclock or undercloks their graphics cards, because i think the diference between the two cards is pretty big. I've never seen one 7600 but i've seen a x1600 (something like equal cards) and it really good at gaming, much better than my x1400.

 

The Compal HEL80 gets a lower score due to its sloooow clock speeds. The memory on it is gimpy, and most benefit when you OC a graphics card comes from the memory Mhz for Mhz compared to OC'ing the core. The 7600 in the Hel80 has memory that can't OC to the same speed to the 7600go in the A8jm, and thus doesn't perform as well.

So yeah, that's one thing to watch out for, even though laptops may have the same name graphics processor, they could have different clocks and offer different performance.

I had always been under the impression though that the extra memory benefits were marginal since the majority of games don't take advantage of 256 MB of video card ram....perhaps that was the case a few years ago or something.