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-->>128MB vs. 256MB GEFORCE 7400 Graphics Card--<<
:confused: One of the decisions I am in the process of making is attemptiong to decide on whether or not to go with an SZ140 or SZ160 which has the 256MB GeForce 7400 graphics card versus say a SZ 110 which has only 128MB of on-board integrated memory.
For those of you gurus out there that know video cards inside and out, how much difference in gaming or photoshop manipulating will the two different video cards make? Is there that much difference in the benchmark scores between the two?
I am looking for practical advice on which laptop to buy based on the graphics card internal memory of 128MB or 256MB.
Also, anyone know how to get a DVI connection from your SONY SZ without having to buy a docking station?
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a dedicated video card is WAY better than integrated, especially in gaming!
You might not even be able to play some newer games without a dedicated.
As far as photoshop, it shouldnt affect it that much.
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The SZ160 only has 128MB of dedicated RAM. Spec sheet: http://www.docs.sony.com/release/spe...160PC_mksp.pdf
Anyway, the 7400 is not a fast enough card to properly make use of 256MB of dedicated RAM. It would be a waste of both money and battery power.
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I agree with speckled jim
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The cards in both notebooks are the same. The difference in Video RAM is only due to the fact of the different System RAM. With 512 System RAM your video card will have 128MB allocated to it, with 1 GB it should get 256MB allocated. Thats how it was with the Geforce 6400 on the S-Series and I am almost certain it's the same on the 7400.
It's still unclear how much dedicated RAM the 7400 in the Sony notebooks really has. Either 32/64/128. So don't base your decision on which to get on the difference in Video RAM of the graphics card..
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I believe the consensus is that it is 128
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It's still unclear how much dedicated RAM the 7400 in the Sony notebooks really has. Either 32/64/128. So don't base your decision on which to get on the difference in Video RAM of the graphics card..
My SZ120 is showing 128MB dedicated, 184MB shared (with 1GB main RAM), see attached.
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My SZ160 shows the exact same thing, and I have 2GB RAM installed.
Javier
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Try everest
http://www.lavalys.com/products/down...?pid=3&lang=en
Under the GPU tab, it shows my SZ110's 7400 has 64MB memory.
The SZ120P that I had before(and returned) also showed the same memory size under that tab.
While under the Windows Video tab, it shows my laptop has 128MB video memoy. (obviously, it is the "turbo-cached" memory size)
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Those 64-bit is the bus width, it has nothing to do with how much memory the card has, has to do with how much memory, (in this case 64 bits which is 4MB) it can transfer(read/write) each cycle.