Thinking about getting a Macbook for college, finally caved in haha...anyway, was wondering if the integrated graphics was total shit and if it has any hope of running GW or...GW2 in the future? Since I'm pretty sure you can't upgrade a laptop...(yeah I really know nothing about PC's...)
Intel GMA 950 graphics, 64 MB shared
Thanks in advance!
Intel GMA 950 graphics, 64 MB shared (laptop for college)
Cherng Butter
Brianna
That laptop will probably only be able to start Guild Wars, I'd be surprised if you could squeeze off 5-10 FPS on lowest settings.
It will be horrible for Guild Wars unfortunately, and the thought of it playing Guild Wars 2 is something like ''ROFLMFAO".
You can't really upgrade a laptop's hardware other than it's HDD, RAM, and Battery to my knowledge, adding new video hardware is definitely a no, not possible to upgrade that without buying a new laptop.
So to answer your question in short: Yes the integrated graphics is total shit, it's steaming in fact.
I'd say make a different choice, even the Intel GMA X3100 will still suck for games, and that's the current standard in Integrated graphics for laptops. Go for a laptop with any kind of dedicated Nvidia or ATI graphics card and you will have much more hope for games.
Here's some technical babble from wiki on it:
It was released sometime in 2005 or earlier, was it not? Some information seems vague, but at any rate it has been around since 2005 at least, when Guild Wars was released as well. Imagine how shitty integrated graphics is - then being as old as Guild Wars, anyway I'll stop beating on this lol.
It will be horrible for Guild Wars unfortunately, and the thought of it playing Guild Wars 2 is something like ''ROFLMFAO".
You can't really upgrade a laptop's hardware other than it's HDD, RAM, and Battery to my knowledge, adding new video hardware is definitely a no, not possible to upgrade that without buying a new laptop.
So to answer your question in short: Yes the integrated graphics is total shit, it's steaming in fact.
I'd say make a different choice, even the Intel GMA X3100 will still suck for games, and that's the current standard in Integrated graphics for laptops. Go for a laptop with any kind of dedicated Nvidia or ATI graphics card and you will have much more hope for games.
Here's some technical babble from wiki on it:
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GMA 950 The GMA 950 is Intel's second-generation Graphics Media Accelerator graphics core, which was also referred by Intel as 'Gen 3.5 Integrated Graphics Engine' in datasheets. It is used in the Intel 940GML, 945G, 945GU and 945GT system chipsets. The amount of video-decoding hardware has increased; VLD, iDCT, and dual video overlay windows are now handled in hardware. The maximum core clock is up to 400 MHz (on Intel 945G, 945GC, 945GZ), boosting pixel fill-rate to a theoretical 1600 megapixels/s. The GMA 950 shares the same architectural weakness as the GMA 900: no hardware geometry processing. Neither basic (DX7) hardware transform and lighting,[2] nor more advanced vertex shaders (DX8 and later) are handled in the GMA hardware. |
Elder III
I actually played GW with a GMA 900 when I first started..... it wasn't much fun. It worked on lower settings, but certain areas I could not even load, let alone play. So, I highly suggest you go a different route. As a rule - Integrated Graphics Suxorz for Gaming. You can something like a Geforce 7600 or even older for real cheap nowadays and that will play GW on MAX with 0 problems and ought to handle GW2 at a decent rate (playable at least). :d
Cherng Butter
Alright thanks, how about this one?
nVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M
nVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M
Elder III
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Originally Posted by Cherng Butter
Alright thanks, how about this one?
nVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M |
cgruber
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Originally Posted by Cherng Butter
Thinking about getting a Macbook for college, finally caved in haha...anyway, was wondering if the integrated graphics was total shit and if it has any hope of running GW or...GW2 in the future? Since I'm pretty sure you can't upgrade a laptop...(yeah I really know nothing about PC's...)
Intel GMA 950 graphics, 64 MB shared Thanks in advance! |
Flightmare
Stolen from benchmarking site:
those numbers are the 3D Mark 05 score, higher is better.
Just to give some sort of comparison.
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3DMark 05in comparison Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 900 (min) - 234 ... ATI Mobility Radeon 9800 - 2800 NVIDIA GeForce Go 6600 - 2800 ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2400 - 2819 NVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M - 2943 ATI Radeon HD 3200 - 3064 ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2400 XT - 3091 NVIDIA GeForce Go 7600 - 3241 ... NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTX SLI (max) - 17230 |
Just to give some sort of comparison.