ati vs nvidia in notebooks

Discussion in 'Pro/Engineer & Creo Elements/Pro' started by g.bon, Sep 22, 2003.

  1. g.bon

    g.bon Guest

    Hello,

    I want to buy a notebook.
    Is there any comparison of ATI Radeon 9000 or 9600 and Nvidia fx5600 for
    notebooks in Pro/E performances ?
    Is there anyone have any experiences with those gpu in notebooks ?

    Thanks,
    GB
     
    g.bon, Sep 22, 2003
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    Pete Guest

    I have an Inspiron with a Radeon, and it's been nothing but trouble.
    I don't know if the Nvidia is any better.....

    Problems:
    1: Can't run in native (1600x1200) res, more than one window open it
    locks up if you don't use WINDOW>ACTIVATE from the menu. Set the res
    to 1280x1024, I can open maybe 5 windows before it locks up, and can
    switch from the taskbar.

    2: Have to use win32_gdi for above problem as well.

    I've tried all drivers to no avail; PTC doesn't have this card on
    their certified list, so no support.

    Regards
    Peter Brown
     
    Pete, Sep 23, 2003
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    Paul Rudolph Guest

    I have a dell m50 with a NVIDIA card and it works very well.
     
    Paul Rudolph, Sep 23, 2003
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    Alex Sh. Guest

    Got a Toshiba with NVIDIA GeForce 440 Go card (1 year old, already outdated
    compared to current mobile video cards) and it works perfectly well. The
    only drawback is that I cannot open more than 10 Pro/E windows (11th and
    beyond are very slow), but this is a problem with all gaming cards - some
    slow down after 3 opened windows, some - after 4, 5, etc. I run ProE under
    OpenGL, too. So if I were to buy another notebook now, I'd go with NVIDIA.
     
    Alex Sh., Sep 23, 2003
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