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So I'm buying a laptop and I'm pretty clueless on which cards are good or not. It has to be a laptop so please don't suggest any desktop stuff.

Basically what I wanna know is what are the best/better GPU's available for laptops? There are so many variations that I'm unsure of.

Thanks in advance. +Rep to helpful posts.
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Go to XoticPc or PowerNoteBooks. They have the mobile 280 on pre order. That is the best if you have any more questions please post. HP, DeLL and Alienware are not where you wanna be bud?
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For now it's the GTX280M which is about as good as a desktop 9800GTX+ AMD got out the 4860M (or something like that) that is 40nm, 1GB DDR5 and almost as good as the desktop 4870. While the AMD part looks better on paper, so far only ASUS launched something with it, but in the coming month we should see both chips showing up on more lappys.
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Asusmobile is right.

Next month the 260M & 280M GTX will be released. I heard the 280M will be equivalent to a desktop 9800GTX+, not sure about the 260.

Right now the 4870 in the Asus W90 is the fastest and after that we have the 9800m GTX, 9800m GT & 9800m GTS. Somewhere in there fits the 4850 mobility but not sure where
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nVidia GTX280M specs:

Core clock: 585MHz
processor clock: 1463MHz
Memory Clock: 950MHz
Memory Interface:256bit
Framebuffer: 1Gb
Gigaflops: 562
SLI: yes
PhysX: yes
Hybrid SLI: yes
CUDA processor cores: 128

nVidia GTX260M specs:

Core clock: 550MHz
processor clock: 1375MHz
Memory Clock: 950MHz
Memory Interface:256bit
Framebuffer: 1Gb
Gigaflops: 462
SLI: yes
PhysX: yes
Hybrid SLI: yes
CUDA processor cores: 112

no way the GTX280m would be as good as the desktop 9800gtx+,the 4860 for laptopswill be 40nm 650Mhz on the core with 4Ghz GDDR5 with 640sp,4870m is 550Mhz on core with same GDDR5 as 4860(?) but better bandwidth.
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nVidia GTX280M specs:

Core clock: 585MHz
processor clock: 1463MHz
Memory Clock: 950MHz
Memory Interface:256bit
Framebuffer: 1Gb
Gigaflops: 562
SLI: yes
PhysX: yes
Hybrid SLI: yes
CUDA processor cores: 128

nVidia GTX260M specs:

Core clock: 550MHz
processor clock: 1375MHz
Memory Clock: 950MHz
Memory Interface:256bit
Framebuffer: 1Gb
Gigaflops: 462
SLI: yes
PhysX: yes
Hybrid SLI: yes
CUDA processor cores: 112

no way the GTX280m would be as good as the desktop 9800gtx+,the 4860 for laptopswill be 40nm 650Mhz on the core with 4Ghz GDDR5 with 640sp,4870m is 550Mhz on core with same GDDR5 as 4860(?) but better bandwidth.

Noone knows for sure how fast the 280 will be but rumours are its as fast as a 9800GTX+...only got a month to wait to find out though
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Noone knows for sure how fast the 280 will be but rumours are its as fast as a 9800GTX+...only got a month to wait to find out though


why would you say that when i posted the specs of the card?

http://techreport.com/discussions.x/16507
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why would you say that when i posted the specs of the card?

http://techreport.com/discussions.x/16507

What I meant was in real world terms. Not just figures such as MHZ.

Check out the benchmarks of the 280M here: http://www.notebookcheck.net/Nvidia-...w.14565.0.html

And then the benchmarks of the 9800GTX+ here: http://www.pro-clockers.com/reviews/?id=118&page=5

There isn't a great deal in it and the test sytem for the 9800GTX+ had a 4.15 Ghz E8400. The maximum CPU speed for the laptop used to test the 280M is going to be the X9100 @ 3.1
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There is an asus laptop that has a 4870X2 in it, that would beat anything mentioned
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There is an asus laptop that has a 4870X2 in it, that would beat anything mentioned

lol? i bet 1/4 of the laptop is copper and fans
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There is an asus laptop that has a 4870X2 in it, that would beat anything mentioned

It had two 4870's, not a 4870X2
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negative

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16834220503

EDIT: What he said
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Sorry Sabzi I think you migh have miss read it. It says 4870 X2 not 4870X2. IDK. Maybe Im wrong maybe your wrong
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negative

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16834220503

Ahhh, Newegg. That trustworthy review site


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Wrong.

http://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-ATI...e.14406.0.html

Its two 4870's in Crossfire. I've seen the opened up laptop with my own eyes. Two cards, two cooling fans...not two gpu's on one card like the desktop 4870X2
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Sorry Sabzi I think you migh have miss read it. It says 4870 X2 not 4870X2. IDK. Maybe Im wrong maybe your wrong

Who cares, either way it's two HD4870s under one hood.
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4870x2
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16834220503



Oh please.

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/lap...870-notebook/1

"We never thought we'd see the day to be honest, but the mammoth W90 notebook from Asus comes with two Mobility Radeon HD 4870s and an Intel Core 2 Duo T9600 45nm CPU, buried in a 18.4" 5kg behemoth."

"Inside Asus has shoehorned not just a P45 chipset - but a full X38 Xpress instead! The three DDR2 SO-DIMM memory slots are full, and the HD4870 512MBs get their own heatpipe and fan each, as well as a small CrossFire cable between them as well."

Check the images on page 2 of that review. You'll clearly see two seperate cards

Convinced yet? I got all day
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it is in fact 2 separate 4870 cards and not one card with 2 gpus.
it's a 4870 x2 and newegg has it worded wrong. they already got chewed out for saying it had gddr5 4870x2's. and they changed that already.
the direct competitor to the asus is the m980nu from clevo. dual gtx280m's.
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