Intel 4500MHD or Nvidia 9200MGS

On Friday 28 November 2008 16:15, someone identifying as *General
Schvantzkoph* wrote in /comp.os.linux.hardware:/

> I'm about to buy a new laptop, the graphics options on the HPdv5t are the
> Intel 4500MHD or the Nvidia 9200MGS. I've always used Nvidia but the
> Intel driver is open source which is an advantage, the downside of the
> Intel solution is that it uses shared memory.
>
> Is there a noticeable difference in performance between the two if you
> don't play games?

I presume that any perception of difference in performance depends upon the
exact amount of available shared memory for the Intel graphics adapter and
your own choice of enabling or disabling certain eyecandy that requires
accelerated 3D graphics - e.g. Compiz/Beryl/kwin4.

Therefore, I believe that if you stick to one of the plain old KDE 3 (or KDE
4 with all 3D effects disabled) or Gnome, Enlightenment, WindowMaker, XFCE,
Fluxbox et al, you shouldn't be noticing any performance losses when using
the shared memory videoadapter over using one with dedicated video
memory.

Hope this was helpful...

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*Aragorn*
(registered GNU/Linux user #223157)