<p>both at 512 MB for laptops
im basically between those 2, price = same and they’re on different laptops so im choosing</p>
<p>plz help me expert!</p>
<p>I heard something about ATI being better this year, but I forget for which model. Usually, NVIDIA has slightly better benchmarks, though.</p>
<p>I don’t know much about laptops, but I do know quite a bit about desktops and I would personally recommend Nvidia.</p>
<p>You just can’t beat the company. I had the Flagship 7800GTX when it was first released and it was absolutely fabulous. I now have the 7900GT, which can also handle just about everything and if the budget permits I will eventually upgrade to SLI mode.</p>
<p>Ultimately, go with the go.</p>
<p>so the nvidia GO?
kk 
cause ATI mobile is weird</p>
<p>Nvidia !</p>
<p>Are you buying the graphics card separately and installing it yourself? If you are then there are companies that offer a liftetime warranty. I think XFX is one of them, but I maybe mistaken.</p>
<p>no im not.
its two very similar ASUS laptops, with the same price and everything except the difference in these 2 graphics cards</p>
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<p>This hasn’t been true since the Radeon 8500 or so. [It’s</a> been a long time since NVidia was the absolute performance leader.](<a href=“http://www23.tomshardware.com/graphics.html]It’s”>http://www23.tomshardware.com/graphics.html)</p>
<p>Nonetheless, I’d say that the GeForce Go 7700 in this case is the stronger performer. Most benchmarks I’ve seen place it ahead by a significant enough margin to go with it over the ATi at the same price.</p>
<p>Just don’t listen to fanboys though…</p>
<p>NVIDIA has a slight edge ATI right now. Just because it has better benchmarks than HL2 does not mean it’s better. In absolute performance the 8800 is unmatched. I assume that the 2nd generation of DX10 cards will also be in NVIDIA’s favor.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www23.tomshardware.com/graphics.html?modelx=33&model1=606&model2=547&chart=231[/url]”>http://www23.tomshardware.com/graphics.html?modelx=33&model1=606&model2=547&chart=231</a></p>
<p>Mr Payne,</p>
<p>I didn’t link to the HL2 benchmark just to demonstrate that ATi was better. I just linked to the first benchmark that came up. I figured it would be easy enough to see how the two were performing along different lines. ATi does better on some things, NVidia on others.</p>
<p>All I meant was that NVidia no longer has the absolute performance lead anymore. In the past, around the days of the early Radeons and GeForce 3s, it was pretty clear that NVidia was the clear performance leader. Today? Not so much.</p>
<p>Now it’s just a neck-and-neck race to stay on top, whereby one of the two will produce a new GPU that’s just a teensy bit better than the previous leader. Neither one really has an absolute grip on the crown these days, and it’s only a matter of time before ATi releases a new chipset that will kick the DX10’s butt…then NVidia will respond…and so on and so forth.</p>
<p>In the end, we win. Except with all this stupid optimization of code for specific chipsets. That ticks me off. A lot.</p>
<p>i can’t find the 2 in tom’s hardware 
they dont do mobile graphics cards apparently</p>
<p>that R60 that ati is releasing is apparently beating 8800 gtx in everything.
but forget that, im looking at notebook graphics!!!</p>
<p>AND Oh no i just realized a big problem, there are no dx10 cards for laptops!!! </p>
<p>i want to play games, and this is going to be a laptop for college, so what does that mean for me?! i wont be able to play next gen games? how long do we have usually until next gen games become totally mainstream anyway?</p>
<p>I thought that the GeForce 8800 was DX10 compatible??</p>
<p>it is
but its not for laptops 
infact, the card itself could be larger than a 12 inch laptop
thus to my point, there are NO dx10 laptops!!! :(:(:(</p>
<p>Ah, I see your point.</p>
<p>Yes, that’s a bit of a problem. If you plan on doing gaming into the future, it may pay to consider getting a desktop instead.</p>
<p>I’d say Nvidia. Every ATI I have ever used resulted in lots of driver problems.</p>
<p>well do you know when will direct x 10 games be mainstream?
if its well over 2 years, then i’m prepared to pitch in again after 2 years for another laptop i guess…
but if you think dx10 games will be all over the shelves within a year and totally making dx9 obsolete, then i’ll wait</p>
<p>understand what im tryin to say?</p>