ATI Radeon Mobility HD 5870 GPU

[CopperCircle]

Hi, I have been looking at this laptop (My link) and wondered if there is any downside to using a radeon over a geforce with LE?

[Mumbles]

Several years ago, I would have said that Nvidia absolutely crucifies ATI when it comes to OpenGL rendering. But my non-gaming laptop has a mobility Radeon 3100 in it (Or it might be a 3000, can't remember off the top of my head). As low grade as the graphics card is, it can run simple LE scenes quite nicely actually. So, with a much better card, that your linked laptop has, there probably won't be any serious problems with it, if there are any problems at all that is.

[Canardia]

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 is faster than 8800M GTX and slower than GTS 280M, so it's probably as fast as a 8800 GTS.

It runs Crysis with decent FPS, so it will run LE just fine.

http://www.notebookcheck.net/ATI-Mobility-Radeon-HD-5870.23073.0.html

[Sean]

i have a 5770 in my desktop and it runs everything LE can throw at it very well. so, i would think that the mobility version should do just as well. Only thing i have noticed is my laptop ( with a nVidia 360M ) has to be plugged in to get good framerates. Only get about 15 - 20fps on battery power.

[Josh]

There are some small things about ATI drivers that make them less preferable, at least with the 4000 series cards.

[CopperCircle]

Thanks for the info.