Mobility gaming cards
adarryl
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Getting ready to order a new gaming notebook (Sager) and am a bit confused as to video card choice. I am looking at the AMD 6990M vs. nVidia GTX 485 or GTX 580. I don't have to have the fastest, but I want to extend longevity well into the future. I am concerned about driver updates for the AMD/ATI card vs. the nVidia cards. Any reason to choose one over the other (other than $$)? My gaming is largely first person shooter new releases. Titles that I have played, when new, were COD Black Ops, Crysis 2, Portal 2.
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That said, we release a new driver every month. The current release is Catalyst 11.8, and Catalyst 11.9 will be arriving very shortly.
For example, you can see on this page that a huge number of mobile GPUs are supported by Catalyst 11.8.
Anyone care to comment on the merits, one over the other, in regard to the gpu's I mentioned in my OP?
Just keep in mind that a high-end gaming notebook isn't really a notebook so much as a desktop replacement. They're big, they're heavy, they have lots of cooling. That's the tradeoff for real performance.