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    Which one would be faster?

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by Megaman81, Dec 1, 2006.

  1. Megaman81

    Megaman81 Notebook Consultant

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    Ati 200m IGP or ATI 9200 mobility with 32mb ram

    i am researching a laptop and those are the two chips im looking at..
    its not hard core gaming machine btw... :)
     
    Megaman81, Dec 1, 2006
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  2. Dreamer

    Dreamer The Bad Boy

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    Well, their preformance probably would be comparable. However, I would go for the Xpress 200m consideing that the 9200 is terribly outdated.

    What notebooks are those?
     
    Dreamer, Dec 1, 2006
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    I'd say 200m, it's a more capable card than you might expect, includes newer shader support etc. and is flexible in the amount of ram it can use, in some cases up to 256mb.
     
    moon angel, Dec 1, 2006
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  4. Megaman81

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    You are right about the hyper memory on the 200m...but doesnt it matter that the 9200 is a discrete compared to integrated 200m? Is 200m that much better compared to the 9200 that it does not matter?
    thanks guys

    PS: to answer the question above,,,this is for my dad, he does not need any thing super fast or dual core...The 200m is my laptop vaio k45 and the 9200 im looking at is the vaio s260 ultra light laptop
     
    Megaman81, Dec 2, 2006
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    tangent Notebook Evangelist

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    i would go for the 200m then, it doesn't really make much heat, and the CPU and RAM would be more current too. the 9200 could heat things up and mess up battery life.
     
    tangent, Dec 2, 2006
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  6. Dreamer

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    No it doesn't matter that the 9200 is dedicated in this case. The Xpress 200M would show similar or even better performance. As I said, the 9200 is terribly outdated.
     
    Dreamer, Dec 2, 2006
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    9200 would blow it away

    not even a fair fight

    200 m is not even more dx compatible, 9200 is dx 8

    I dont know what everyone who answered this thread is smoking but its time to read about gpus and look at scores.
     
    stamar, Dec 2, 2006
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    And can you explain that for us? :rolleyes:
     
    Dreamer, Dec 2, 2006
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  9. Charles P. Jefferies

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    The Radeon Xpress 200M is based on the core of the Radeon X300 - it is DirectX 9 compatible.
     
    Charles P. Jefferies, Dec 2, 2006
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    Do you have any results to show? I am curious about this!
    thanks
     
    Megaman81, Dec 4, 2006
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  11. Dreamer

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    If stamar managed to prove what he said, especially this " 200 m is not even more dx compatible", I would give him 100$ ;)

    Otherwise, I would ask him "What are you smoking?" I mean I would like to try the same. :D
     
    Dreamer, Dec 4, 2006
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    Zellio, Dec 5, 2006
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