Ok, look into your crystal balls everyone...
I'm trying to decide whether to upgrade from my gen 1, rev. b mbp (core 2 duo, ati radeon X1600) to the last of the gen 1's (2.6Ghz GeForce 8600m GT) which you can get for a screaming deal (1650).
I believe I won't really see too much speed diff now (some, but not like "wow!"). But I'm wondering with OpenCL, if the 8600m GT would make a much bigger diff.
Also, anyone know what is considered a "core" in a GPU? I've read that it's a bit of a stretch to call them cores, as they are nowhere like a CPU core. The 9400m claims to have 16 cores (http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_geforce_9400m_g_us.html); is that the same as Stream Processors which the 8600m GT has 32 (http://www.nvidia.com/object/geforce_8600M.html). What about the X1600, anyone know how many "cores" that poor thing has?
Oiy. This marketing gobblegook is really confusing!
I'm trying to decide whether to upgrade from my gen 1, rev. b mbp (core 2 duo, ati radeon X1600) to the last of the gen 1's (2.6Ghz GeForce 8600m GT) which you can get for a screaming deal (1650).
I believe I won't really see too much speed diff now (some, but not like "wow!"). But I'm wondering with OpenCL, if the 8600m GT would make a much bigger diff.
Also, anyone know what is considered a "core" in a GPU? I've read that it's a bit of a stretch to call them cores, as they are nowhere like a CPU core. The 9400m claims to have 16 cores (http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_geforce_9400m_g_us.html); is that the same as Stream Processors which the 8600m GT has 32 (http://www.nvidia.com/object/geforce_8600M.html). What about the X1600, anyone know how many "cores" that poor thing has?
Oiy. This marketing gobblegook is really confusing!