How do quadros fair up against games?

[nanaki333]

Ordering yet another new laptop through work. The dell has a Quadro NVS 135M and the HP Compaq I'm looking at has a Radeon X2300. Which one of these cards will fair up better with games? I'm not talking about things like bioshock, but games from a year or two ago. I know neither one is going to fair well against the newest stuff.

 

[nanaki333]

nobody has any insight? i need to know which new laptop to make my work buy me. the gateway comes with a 2300 and the dell comes with the quadro 135M

 

[slugg]

my quadro 140m runs WoW at max settings just fine...

CounterStrike Source is locked at 30 fps for some reason... it wont go any higher, but wont go any lower. I've tried everything and I can't figure out why.

The quadro is definitely not a gaming card. The drivers are too precise, making it very slow for gaming. The Radeon x2300 doesn't render to the precision that the quadro renders, so I believe the X2300 would be faster overall in games.

That's the best info I can offer from my experience. Any more questions, feel free to ask

 

[imported_Kiwi]

HP always orders a ton of really bad video cards that are exclusively sold in their PCs. Thus, that X2300 is almost certain to be the same awful crap, totally useless for any game newer than 2003, other than an MMO (very low entry requirements for those).

Laptops make terrible game platforms generally, unless you really dig deep and pay the cost of a special gaming system.

 

[Laminator]

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2984&p=4

The Quadro NVS 135M is equivalent to the GeForce 8400M GS. Pretty low-end, but this should be good enough for Quake 4 at medium settings, 1024x768 to give you some perspective. I think it's 64-bit memory but it's surprisingly not bad.

http://ati.amd.com/products/mo...radeonx2300/specs.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...Mobility_Radeon_Series

Mobility X2300: 2 vertex processors, 4 pixel processors, 4 TMU's, 4 ROP's. In other words, a 4-pipeline card. 128-bit memory interface, which is a plus. Think of it as a desktop X1300. No DirectX 10 support, but that will hardly matter for such a card.

 

[nanaki333]

Originally posted by: Kiwi
HP always orders a ton of really bad video cards that are exclusively sold in their PCs. Thus, that X2300 is almost certain to be the same awful crap, totally useless for any game newer than 2003, other than an MMO (very low entry requirements for those).

Laptops make terrible game platforms generally, unless you really dig deep and pay the cost of a special gaming system.

well, it's a work laptop that's free. have to get a business laptop and the dell latitudes all seem to come with quadros now. they used to come with x300 and x600 cards, but not anymore. i don't want it as a main gaming machine, just something that can still run some games at decent rates when i'm on travel. my gaming machine is a Q6600 with all the bells and whistles, so i'm set there.


slugg,
do you have that in a dell laptop as well? what are your other specs on it?



damn... the cost of the hp with the 2300 is like $400 more..

 

[slugg]

Mine's in an IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad T61.

 

[Sonikku]

Most quadros have their gaming capabilities disabled.

Wouldn't want to miss out on a video card sale by having one do it all.