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mobile video chipset benchmarks please?

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busmaster11

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Does anybody know or can spot me a URL to some benchmarks as far as notebook PC video chipsets are concerned? I'm deciding between notebooks, and I see chips like the S3 Savage IX/M, ATI Rage Mobility p, M1, M4, 128, etc. and the Neomagic Magicmedia 256XL... I know when the Nvidia Geforce2 Go comes out it'll beat the crap out of all these, but preferences, suggestions, reviews, benchmarks... all welcome.

Thanks.
 
Don't really have any URLs, but since I freelance for a PC magazine I've played around with several notebook PCs, mostly having either the S3 Savage IX or ATI Rage Mobility p chipset.

In my opinion, both the ATI and S3 chipsets are great, as long as you can find one with enough RAM for the graphics chipset (most come in the 4MB or 8MB flavour, though).

Don't expect to get real good performance, though. The best that I have personally tested was a Toshiba Satellite 2800 (P3-650MHz, 128MB RAM) which scored 1169 on 3DMark 2000 with an 8MB S3 chipset. I'm sure there are faster ones out there, but this can be a rough guide to what kind of performance you'll be expecting.

I'd say wait for the NVidia chipset, if you asked me.


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