Opinions - ATI Mobility Radeon? HD 2600

Hi

I'm considering an HP8510p ($2000) or HP8510w ($2700). Configuration is the same other than the graphics.

Predominant use would be Photoshop CS3, some audio editing (Audition 3), web browsing, a little movie watching.

Curious as to how the ATI HD2600 compares to the NVIDIA Quadro FX 570M and whether the Quadro FX 570M is worth the extra money.

 

Both these graphic cards are good enough for you. FX570 is slightly better graphic card but i doubt you will see any difference if you won't play latest games.

Only thing that bothers me about 2600 is that it has low quality drivers and I'm getting VPU recover once or twice a day. I think nvidia has better drivers but i cant confirm that.

 

In addition, does anyone know how the ATI HD2600 compares to the NVidia Quadro FX 360M that is standard on the Dell 15.4" workstations?

Thanks in advance.........

 

did anybody managed to overclock the hd 2600 yet? or shoud I say "clock it at normal speed", since it's underclocked.

as far as I know the fx570 is a little bit faster, but I wonder if it's underclocked as well. maybe the hd 2600 is even superior because it has more overclocking potential?

 

Have you tried updating to the current video drivers from hp.com? ATI's drivers have started improving at a fairly rapid clip since AMD bought them. HP hasn't been keeping up with all of the releases, but still.

 

I will try with 7.11. I was getting black screens with 7.10 and HP-version.

 

For the programs you mentioned, I doubt it makes any difference with either graphics card, so the 8510p, despite ATI's poor support is still fine.
Nvidia is always the better solution for high end graphics because of their excellent driver support (opengl and all), strong cross platform support and generally better hardware, but ATI fanboys will disagree with me on this last one so I'll stop here.

 

FYI

This is not about fanboy situation and not about the ATi poor support for the mobility product. This is only depend on the laptop manufacturer will participate in the Catalyst Mobile scheme or not.

Re Dave Baumann's post at the B3D here
http://forum.beyond3d.com/showpost.php?p=915577&postcount=2

 

Anyway, I went with the 8510p.
2.2, 120 7200 HD, ATI HD2600, CDRW, 2 gig memory-1dimm, WSXGA, bluetooth, abgn LAN

 

Hi,
If you have a minute can you tell us how you well you like the system you chose and if the HD2600 has been giving you performance issues?

Cheers

 

I was very concerned after purchsing my 8510p because I was also getting frequent VPU recover errors. Updating to HP's latest drivers didn't stop this. Going to DriverHeaven.net and getting the MobilityModder and using it with ATi's latest driver seems to have done the trick though.

 

I don't have the same configuration, but the 2600 is quite good. I haven't ran into any VPU recovery issues that others mentioned, it's pretty stable (I am running Vista, HP default graphic driver). Performance-wise it is also good enough for me. I am not a gamer, but I run some demos every now and then, and from what I have seen, 2600 will handle most games from low to medium resolutions very well.