mobility 2600 HD

any benchmarks for this card yet and does anyone know if it could be upgraded in the future in the fujitsu n6460?

 

its almost impossible to upgrade video cards, for most laptops

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

benchmarks dont tell everything about the capabilties of a card though

 

3DMark score might not reflect the performance as a lot of cheating and benchmark detecting can be done with it. Sadly, this seems to be the case both with the 8000 and 2000 HD series. So I think we should wait for the real-life benchmarks (though Jerry said some tests they performed indicated that 2600 HD really was stronger than 8700GT, still, it doesn't hurt to wait for a full review with real-life benchmarks)

 

if this site is trust worthy : http://www.chilehardware.com/Articu...ATI-Mobility-Radeon-HD-2600-200705141810.html

then it looks like the 2600 is better than a 8600gt

gpu rated at 5.9 on vista

 

There is a person on this forum who ordered a HP 8510p with the ati Radeon HD 2600 (not XT) . If i'm not mistaken his expected shipping date was yesterday, so i'm hoping that this week, we will have a 3dmark 06 benchmark that is trustworthy!

 

too bad that 3dmark 06 in itself is not trustworthy...

 

3dmark06 can be trusted, provided that Nvidia or ATI doesn't specifically tuned it for 3dmark06. (But they dun...) But if u r comparing the cards of a same company, like a 8400M GT against the 8600M GS (or HD2400XT vs HD2600, yes even a Nvidia 7 series agaist the 8), 3dmark is a very good software to benchmark it.

 

I'm certainly interested to see some benches

 

haha, oh how i would love the hd 2600 to out perform Nvidia

 

i agree that using 3dmark to compare two cards from the same company is great.

for example, an 8800gts vs 8600m gt vs 8700m gt vs 8400m gs. those should all be good comparisons.

8600m gt vs hd 2600 xt? no no no.

i also wouldn't compare a 7 series card to an 8 series card using 3dmark. the fact is that you will be disappointed with the 8 series card if you think that game performance should scale with 3dmark scores across generations of tech.

 

That's XT though right? Although I wish it was the standard 2600...my 8510p order is standing by pending more GPU info

 

5.9 is not any better. It is identical to the 8600GT GDDR3 version. I get a 5.9 rating from vista with my 8600GT on the G1S-A1 ASUS with stock drivers and no bloatware turned off. Although I only get a paltry 4.4 rating from my c2d T7500 CPU, stock with bloatware (the lowest rating in the vista ratings from my G1S-A1)

**As a side note: It would be really great to see better performance from this ATI card. As the NVIDIA line has been taking up all the news as of late. I think it's ATI's turn for some spot light. Anyone agree ???

***EDIT: A 5.9 rating for the graphics desktop performance for windows Aero. (not the gaming graphics and 3d business performance) sorry just wanted to make this clear.

 

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yes, I agree it should go to those who deserve the spot light. I am just saying that I hope ATI/AMD will release something news worthy. I find it good for business and good for consumers when competing companies out perform each other with their new products, but without sacraficing any performance just to put a new product.

I believe in the end ATI and NVIDIA need each other to stay competitive, how ever neither should slack off and release *junk* Same line of thinking goes with Intel and AMD. Just my thoughts at least.

 

its now AMD vs Nvidia and AMD vs Intel. maybe amd spread itself too thin for the moment. they might be having some growing pains. they should catch up eventually.

 

well look at the phenom processors on wiki, they "LOOK" like there going to be good, im sure they will catch up, it how it goes, nvidia is just doing really well right now