Nvidia 512 MB 7600 go

[Amanu]

Am looking at different laptop configs, and with the smallest chassis, I basically have the choice between the 7600 and the x1600. I know the X1600 is "ok" for gaming, the Macbook Pro does alright for most games in native res. How does the 7600 with 512 Megs stack up?

 

[Ika]

Are those your only two options?

 

[Amanu]

For anything under 14", seems to be the fastest 2. 7400 and lower are availible, assuming of course they are actually THAT much slower.

 

[Zap]

What's the feature set of the 7600GO? By that I mean MHz, pixel pipes, etc, and how they measure up to the desktop version. Comparing desktop versions at stock speeds, the 7600GS is probably faster than x1600Pro, and the 7600GT is faster than x1600XT. However, doesn't mean the "slower" cards can't play games.

 

[DeathReborn]

Well this is what Xbit says:

The GeForce Go 7600 sports 8 pixel processors, 5 vertex processors, 8 raster operation units (ROPs), 8 texture mapping units (TMUs) and sport a 128-bit memory controller according to a spec sheet provided by Nvidia Corp. The new chip is produced using 90nm process technology. Notebook manufacturers are allowed to clock the GeForce Go 7600 at up to 450MHz for chip and up to 1000MHz for memory.

The RADEON X1600 sports 12 pixel shader processors, 5 vertex shader processors and only 4 texture mapping units (TMUs). While high clock-speeds and generally efficient architecture allow the part to show impressive results in applications loaded with shader operations, 4 TMUs greatly diminish the potential advantages of the solution over its rivals in many current games.

Mobility RADEON X1600 with 128MB GDDR3 memory operates at 209MHz/270MHz (core/memory) clock-speeds in 2D mode and at 473/936MHz (core/memory) in 3D mode.

 

[Shadowmage]

Go X1600 obviously...

 

[postmortemIA]

X1600 on desktop is too good story to be true, I'm sure same applies to laptops.

 

[fbrdphreak]

At least 256MB of that 512MB on the Go 7600 is Turbocache, i.e. shared. :thumbsdown:

 

[Keysplayr]

Originally posted by: fbrdphreak
At least 256MB of that 512MB on the Go 7600 is Turbocache, i.e. shared. :thumbsdown:

I thought only 7300's use Turbocache? But then again, we are talking mobile here. So, dunno.