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Geforce4 go vs ATI Mobility Radeon 7500

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Runes911

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link on comparison of the two How is it that ATI keeps beating nvidia in the mobile market? I was thinking of getting a new dell 8200 notebook system with the geforce 4 go 64 MB but now I see this article says that ATI is STILL better, but I am told that gf4 go is supposed to be better. Which is true and why? Should I still get the dell with the geforce4 go or should I get the ATI video card? Please help me choose.
 
Not suprising. Remember, GF4Go is a GF4MX based part. And while the R7500 isn't a DX8 part, still, the GF4MX is crippled by it's MX ancestry (ie it has only 2 Pixel Pipelines), further, ATi has suprior Power Saving Technology as well. Go for the R7500 Mobility.
 
Well that would also mean a p3 instead of a p4 in the laptop since dell's new laptops (the 8200's) dont have the 7500.
 
When used comparable system, GF4 Go is faster than Radeon 7500. Read TechTV review.

With Inspiron 8200, you don't have much choice though. It's either GF 4 or GF2Go.
 
The speed difference between the Inspiron 8100 and 8200 isn't that great. A 1.2 PIII will be nearly as fast as a 1.6 P4 at most things except SSE2 enabled software. Plus the 8100 is several hundred dollars less. The bigger factor is the video card. The ATI with 64 MB is the way to go. Tom's has a review/comparison that shows it pretty well. ATI has been doing the mobile market for years while this is only NVIDIAs second mobile chipset, so it's showing its limitations. I have an ATI in my older notebook and it works great. If I had to buy right now (and I might, so I've been looking) I would go for the 8100 with a 1.2 PIII and 64MB ATI.
 
Review


No comparison to Radeon 7500 given, but due to similarity to other reviewed systems w/Radeon 7500, you can compare results.

Despite what ATI zealots saying, GF4 Go is excellent mobile GPU. Nvidia completely redisgned the package (MAP with integrated DDR), making it more power efficient. GF4 Go DVD engine is actually more advanced than Radeon 7500, with hardware IDCT and IQ (initial stage of decoding, something ATI lacks), and nView. The downside is that no DVD player currently takes advantage of these features, except NVDVD, which is in beta and will be released shortly.

Leon

 
Thanks I agree the more I read about the geforce4 go the more I just couldnt believe that artice I had was accurate....
 
Just to point out that the TechTV review is the only one of 4 reviews I'm aware of that positions the GF4 Go as being faster then the R7500 Mobility, most benchamrks I've seen seem to put the GF4 Go as being about 5% slower.
 


<< Just to point out that the TechTV review is the only one of 4 reviews I'm aware of that positions the GF4 Go as being faster then the R7500 Mobility, most benchamrks I've seen seem to put the GF4 Go as being about 5% slower.

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TechTV is the only review that use 1.7Ghz P4 - M, all other compare Toshiba PIII w/32Mb GF4 to P4 models with 64Mb Radeon 7500. And yes, P4 makes all the difference when it comes to 3D - especially in Quake3 and 3D Mark.
 
I would take the Radeon 7500 just for the power saving features alone. I also can't stand the fact that nvidia's own benchmarks showed the mobile 7500 about half the speed of the GF4 Go, it was a blatant lie.
 
theres a p4-m with radeon 7500? p4 has a lot to do with q3... a more processor independent benchmark would be better. hard to compare a 1.2 512k p3 to a 1.6 p4 when you're using q3... though the processors are roughly equivalent at a whole lot of things, q3 isn't one of them.

damn... why can't anand review these things?
 
its too expensive to review laptops.


the new ibm a31 has a radeon 7500, a31p has a firegl7800 and the compaq 2800 presario /evn n800 will have the radeon 7500 also.
 
you also have to consider the technology behind the radeon 7500. it increases the bit color max from 18 to 24 so you have much improved quality. YOu gain an addition half hour on battery life as well. That alone is well worth it. I forget what else it can do... oh ya i think it has hardware DVD encoder so your dvd playback is superior. Plus you get awsome s-video out. ATI is the best in that market.

I'd go ATI. Show me a game that won't work on it? By the time games do come out that require such a power house video card just go out buy a geforce 6 for your pentium 6-50ghz machine ... 🙂 just saying it'll be awhile .... heheh
 
well im not too interested on the power consumption of the cards (besides 30 mins extra battery power isn't much more) im interested in performance. there is just as many reports that say gf4go is better as there are ones that say 7500 is better......
 
then buy a desktop computer!!!!!!!!!!! a notebook isn't powerful at all! if you want power buy a desktop. Or rather build one! it would be cheaper too!

Why would you buy a notebook for power? a notebook is to get your work done on the go!

thats like buying a little car that has a V4 for power because it's smaller.

Just build yourself a desktop. For the price of the laptop you could build an entry level server pentium 4 server or an entry level athlon xp server with scsi drives for the price of a notebook!

 
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