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    tosh m100(atix1400 128mb) vs Sony sz120 (nvidia 7400 128mb)

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by starstreak, Apr 10, 2006.

  1. starstreak

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    For those wondering if the x1400 128 (I think its dedicated) vs teh the 7400 128 (not dedicated), the sony ran just fine against it.
    m100 with the x1400 and a 2Ghz due only scored 1660pt on 3dmark05
    sz120 with the 7400 and 1.86Ghz scored 1880pts.
    I'm happy. But there are those who say the 3dmark is biased to nvidia..
     
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    Actually the go 7400 is dedicated, but utilizes turbocahe technology which just shares ram with the pc. A really integrated card like intel's utilizes cpu and memory form pc. Still i was told the x1400 was better than the nvidia...interesting... The ati x1400 could also be using hypermemory which is the sames as turbocache but differetn name. whoot!! my first post!!
     
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    Sorry I knew about the turbo cache, but from what little I read, the x1400 was supposed to be all dedicated. Where the nvidia is something dumb like 20mb vram and the rest is shared? It was something small.
     
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    so let me get this straight.........the 7400 in the SZ uses integrated ram?
     
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    something small like 20mb. The rest is shared ram.
     
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    All i know is i am able to play Call of duty 2 on my sz 110 with a little tweaking. thats good enough for me especially for a 13er.
     
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    Are you sure the 1660 is with the M100?

    http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=2801&review=Tecra+A6-ST3112+Customizable

    The Tecra A6 is pretty much the same laptop and it gets 2149 with a 1.66GHz CPU.
     
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    To my knowledge...and practically I have been following Sony since before SZ was released...the 7400 has 128mb dedicated and 128mb turbocached. I would never get a notebook with 20mb dedicated VRAM.
     
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    There was another thread that mentioned that mentioned the actual vram. I thought it was bad, but my speed is ok...
     
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