» Thu May 31, 2012 8:51 pm
Different laptop makers dilute the card performance to a greater or lesser degree, with no standard of any sort among them, which is a key to why laptops get no official support. I never name any numbers for a mobile graphics device, and always suggest that people should buy cheap, simple laptops that are very light and portable, then have a stationary system at home to play games on.
(There is always someone wanting to suggest that stationary systems "take up too much space", when that is not really true. You can get almost any size and shape enclosure that will fit anywhere, with very little trouble finding them. AMD's Fusion series has already eliminated most need for anyone to have a discrete business graphics solution, and several of their "Llano" offerings reach the borderline zone where the HD 6570 holds sway. As far as AMD is concerned, the lower end, right up through the bottom half of Medium, no longer requires any updates.
(The HD 6450, HD 6570, and HD 6670 will be continued in the HD 7nnn generation with no change other than to give them new names. The "Trinity" Fusion series will offer equivalent graphics to the HD 6670 when released in March, 2012. Without a need for a discrete graphics card, the basic gaming level stationary PCs can be much smaller.)
The GTX 260 has gotten relatively out of date since it was new. You want a GTX 4nn or a GTX 5nn (the 6nn generation is in the wings, with engineering samples already in the hands of reviewers).
