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    Are there 3 versions of the 8600GT?

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by Bona Fide, Jun 21, 2007.

  1. Bona Fide

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    I'm looking at laptops to buy for college, and I've been shuffling between the Macbook Pro and the NP2090/IFL90. The graphics card issue is confusing me, because it seems that the MBP offers a 128MB or 256MB chip, while the IFL90 has a 512MB chip.

    Does the 512MB 8600GT have a 256MB Turbocache, which gives it 512MB of "effective" memory? Or does it have 512MB of physical memory, making for 3 different iterations of the same GPU?
     
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    The IFL90 has 512MB on the card...it does not use TurboCache.
     
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    Are the clock speeds still standard, or are they also boosted?
     
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    Since production models have not come in yet we don't know where they are clocked.
     
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