YOUR Experiences With the HD 3650 at 1920x1200 Resolution

Hello

If anyone has got any experiences with the ATI Radeon HD 3650 card on a WUXGA (1920x1200) monitor I'd love to hear about them!

Post either here or in my topic where I've provided some more information as to why I would like to know.

 

I have a buddy who tried to run his into an HD TV for Bioshock. The results were... poor at best.

 

The 3650 will die @ 1920x1200. I promise you this.

 

Definitely not the results I was hoping for, but guess I was expecting it.

However, what I forgot to mention is that I will only be playing World of Warcraft. Would a decent CPU (P8600) be able to make up for the poor graphics card?

 

Well I'd dare to disagree- Cod:WaW handles well on low details, same as C&C:RA3 and FarCry2
Allo of the above are well playable on low to mid details in 1920x1080 res. That said I obviously presume the additional 120 pix won't change a whole lot of things?

 

small edit: the above also relates to the 512mb hd3650

 

It only has 4 ROPs if I remember right.

 

If it can only handle low details, that's the point I was making. And is that 30 frames per second?

 

That's true, but does it make a huge difference?

 

that is a too high res for that card

but in native resolution @ 1280 x 800 ( widescreen ) of 15,4 lappy it should run games on high

the HD 3650 isn't a weak GPU I can tell that

 

How would you compare it to the Nvidia Geforce 9600m GT 1 GB DDR2? That is what I've currently got on the laptop I'm considering returning. The card seems to cover all of my needs.

 

I have 9650m 1 GB DD2 witch is slightly more powerful than 9600m DD2, but still it could be on the HD 3650 level or even the same level

 

Orange Box games ran at full detail with 4x AF, AA turned off and everything else maxed out at 30+ fps.

 

It will since the ROPs do the job of grabbing details in the 3D space and translate them to a 2D plane so they can be displayed on a monitor (it's called z-buffering). The more the merrier, though it should be fine at 720p with most newer games with medium-high details. The higher the screen resolution, the more points in space have to be z-buffered. This is also dependent on graphical details, as the ROPs will have a higher workload to sort through when there is more detail to figure out. The higher the graphics fidelity, the more to sort through, add this problem to a higher screen resolution, and you can have a mess. This is part of the problem as to why the Xbox 360 and PS3 have a small handful of games that can render in actual 1920 x 1080 resolution, they both only have 8 ROPs. The 3650 also has a couple generations seperation from the Xenos and RSX, so I bet it gets much closer to it's theoretical ROP pixel fillrate, not to mention higher core clock speed, than either console could ever hope for hence why it's good at 720p even with half the ROPs of the Xenos and RSX.

 

well i think the Nvidia 9600m GT DDR2 is more powerful than the HD3650 DDR2 but they are comparible....go here to see a moblie GPU comparible ranking list......
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=302231

 

Loved the read mobius1aic, thanks!

Indeed it is more powerful, but they do seem to be as close to each other as they can get judging by the list. Do you reckon the upgrade on both the processor and hard drive would be able to justify the weaker graphics card when playing WoW on a WUXGA monitor?

 

id be tempted to go with the dell studio XPS16 there one at best buy for $1099.99 and comes with bluray player, 4gb ddr3 ram C2D P8600 and the HD3670 which is the overclocked GDDR3 version of the HD3650, it comes with 720p WLED screen at 16". Its the same as what i have and im playing a heap of different games all at high or max settings and the screen looks fantastic.
So its an option, heres a link check it out
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=9175439&type=product&id=1218045569785
it scores around 5000 in 3Dmark06 which isnt bad and really out performs the 9600m GT DDR2 and the HD3650 DDR2 by over 1 thousand points.
Anyway good luck

 

I appreciate the suggestion, but I'm going to have to buy the laptop from a Norwegian dealer. I reckon the import taxes would be too high otherwise. Sweet laptop though!

 

	Providing the information on both cards to help you further, so I can make my decision. Keep in mind that the Nvidia card will be running with a T6400 processor and a 5200 RPM hard drive, while the ATI card will be running with a P8600 processor and a 7200 RPM hard drive. Which solution would provide the best performance in WoW (rumor has it that it's a very CPU dependent game) at WUXGA resolution?

 

Id still go with the dell studio 17, it has a better CPU and a performance harddrive, the difference between the 2 GPU's is small and you might find better performance with WOW but id imagine you wont see a decrease.