Suggest me a good IGP...

[rdev]

Which among ATi Mobility Radeon X1250, Intel X3100, and NVidia GeForce Go 7150M is better for HD playback, and some casual gaming?

Thanks.

 

[geoffry]

I would lean towards the Nvida one, although the ATI one is probably close performance wise, intel integrated graphics are quite terrible compared to ATI or NVDA.

These are laptop graphics, are you getting a laptop and have these as choices or are you looking for a desktop IGP?

 

[TC91]

the nvidia 7150m is the fastest in terms of raw power, not sure about HD video playback. i have the gma x3100 in my laptop, i would definately not recommend it for any kind of newer 3D games.

 

[Mem]

Originally posted by: rdev

Which among ATi Mobility Radeon X1250, Intel X3100, and NVidia GeForce Go 7150M is better for HD playback, and some casual gaming?

Thanks.

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[rdev]

Thanks for all your replies.
I did some research on my own. Here's what I came up with:

Here is the specifications page for the NVidia GeForce Go 7150M. It appears that the 7150M can do a fair bit of HD decoding on its own. On the other hand, it has DirectX support only till ver. 9, while the Intel X3100 supports ver. 10 as well (spec sheet here).

I'm really confused now.

@geoffry: Yes, it's a laptop.

 

[Sylvanas]

I would be going for the Nvidia IGP. Having DX10 support on the Intel doesn't make it any better...it's not like you will be able to play any game in DX10 on an IGP.

 

[TC91]

DX10 on the gma x3100 would be a slideshow (its not so great in DX9 either), it is technially able to "display" DX10 content, but being playable is a completely different story. But since its a laptop, the gma x3100 would have the advantage of using the centrino chipset with a core 2 duo based cpu, while i ve only seen amd chips on the 7150m 's if that matters at all. Perhaps try to look at a laptop that comes with a 8400m or something similar (HP has some nice laptops that can be equipped with the 8400m) which would give you a far better casual gaming experience.