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| Thread ID: 113808 | 2010-11-04 21:42:00 | NVIDIA® GeForce® or ATI Mobility Radeon GPU for new laptop? | brig (1359) | Press F1 |
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| 1150394 | 2010-11-04 21:42:00 | My son is about to buy a new laptop that he needs to run Computer Assisted Design software (Cabinet Vision or similar) for designing kitchen cabinets. It needs to have a decent dedicated video card as some 3D drawing is involved. His budget restricts the price to under $2K. Ascent have suggested 2 models at similar prices with much the same specs but different graphics: Sony VAIO VPCF135FGB with a NVIDIA® GeForce® 310M GPU graphics card and, Sony VAIO VPCEC35FGBI with a ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 5650 card Can anyone tell me if either of these cards is significantly better than the other? |
brig (1359) | ||
| 1150395 | 2010-11-04 21:45:00 | Personally I think the nVidia mobile range is a bit of a dog. | DeSade (984) | ||
| 1150396 | 2010-11-04 21:49:00 | Something like this is more designed for CAD www.trademe.co.nz Personally i wouldnt buy from trademe but if he could get one with a quadro card it would be more suitable for CAD than gaming like the two Vaios you have there |
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| 1150397 | 2010-11-04 21:49:00 | Does it really have to be a laptop? Of those two, I suspect the 5650 will perform better. Get a mid-range Quadro if your budget extends to it. |
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| 1150398 | 2010-11-04 23:37:00 | Where I have been working they tried cabinet vision on laptops and really struggled as it is very gpu intensive they ended up back with desktops | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1150399 | 2010-11-04 23:57:00 | Just like to point out the nVidia may support physx and CUDA :) | SoniKalien (792) | ||
| 1150400 | 2010-11-05 00:28:00 | When it comes to professional graphic, there is only 1 GPU manufacturer and that is nVidia | SolMiester (139) | ||
| 1150401 | 2010-11-05 00:52:00 | The HD5650 Mobility is definitely a fair bit quicker by something close to 50%, its a no contest. | Battleneter2 (9361) | ||
| 1150402 | 2010-11-05 00:55:00 | When it comes to professional graphic, there is only 1 GPU manufacturer and that is nVidia Yes, but it certainly is not their GeForce products. Honestly, you really need to look at a Quadro solution if you want this to go well. |
inphinity (7274) | ||
| 1150403 | 2010-11-05 01:22:00 | Thanks everyone, we are watching all these comments with great interest. Looks like some re-thinking may be needed We are now looking at a: Toshiba Tecra P11 that has an NVIDIA QUADRO® NVS 2100M with CUDA™ technology (512MB dedicated graphics memory) Does this card go anywhere near to doing a decent job - anyone? Thanks again....any more comments are welcome brig |
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