What is the fastest laptop graphics you can buy? Well, from the image to the right you could easily guess that it is the Nvidia GeForce GTX 480M. However, no one seems to have one just yet for testing. Therefore, Anandtech has taken the AMD Mobility 5870 and the Nvidia GTX 285M and tested them against one another to see which is the fastest. The AVADirect Clevo W860CU laptop supports both types of graphics chips.
These laptops are configured absolutely identically except for a crucial difference: one is equipped with NVIDIA’s flagship GeForce GTX 285M, and the other with AMD’s flagship Mobility Radeon HD 5870. These are the fastest (current) single chip mobile graphics solutions from either vendor. NVIDIA just announced their upcoming GeForce GTX 480M, which will boost performance (and power consumption) and very likely take a clear lead over today’s combatants, but we’ll hold off on saying more about the 480M until we can actually get one for testing.
Who wins? You will have to read the article to see. Let’s just say that I was surprised at who the winner was.
via AVADirect’s Clevo W860CU: Mobility 5870 vs. GTX 285M @ AnandTech .
