jamie jewett

ot-macbook-pro-video-card-question

On Aug 22, 2007, at 9:21 PM, jamie jewett wrote:

> I am comparing these two machines and wondered if people thought the

> NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT with 128MB of GDDR3 memory is a better card 

> than the ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 with 256MB of GDDR3 memory even 

> though it only has 128MB of memory vs the older card - machine 

I'd probably get the cheaper, GeForce 8600 one, unless you really 

need all the VRAM. It should offer better rendering performance, DX10 

support (if you run any Direct X apps under bootcamp) + some of the 

newer OpenGL shader support, larger textures (8192 vs. 4096)

Some benchmark stats on laptop cards are here:

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

Wes has this card and has been experimenting with it a bit. Perhaps 

he could comment on any issues/benefits. I believe he found some Cg 

compatibility issues and GLSL clipping plane issues early on, but 

> I am comparing these two machines and wondered if people thought the
> NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT with 128MB of GDDR3 memory is a better card  
> than the ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 with 256MB of GDDR3 memory even  
> though it only has 128MB of memory vs the older card - machine  
> specs and $ follow...

I'd probably get the cheaper, GeForce 8600 one, unless you really  
need all the VRAM. It should offer better rendering performance, DX10  
support (if you run any Direct X apps under bootcamp) + some of the  
newer OpenGL shader support, larger textures (8192 vs. 4096)

Some benchmark stats on laptop cards are here:
http://www.notebookcheck.net/Mobile-Graphics-Cards-Benchmark-List. 
844.0.html

Wes has this card and has been experimenting with it a bit. Perhaps  
he could comment on any issues/benefits. I believe he found some Cg  
compatibility issues and GLSL clipping plane issues early on, but  
perhaps they've been resolved.

On Aug 23, 2007, at 11:09 AM, Joshua Kit Clayton wrote:

> I'd probably get the cheaper, GeForce 8600 one, unless you really 

> need all the VRAM. It should offer better rendering performance, 

> DX10 support (if you run any Direct X apps under bootcamp) + some 

> of the newer OpenGL shader support, larger textures (8192 vs. 4096)

p.s. the new 1280x1024 iSight on later MBP and iMac models is also 

>
> I'd probably get the cheaper, GeForce 8600 one, unless you really  
> need all the VRAM. It should offer better rendering performance,  
> DX10 support (if you run any Direct X apps under bootcamp) + some  
> of the newer OpenGL shader support, larger textures (8192 vs. 4096)

p.s. the new 1280x1024 iSight on later MBP and iMac models is also  
pretty great.

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Subject: Re: [jitter] OT macbook pro video card question

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