They do list the specs.
They managed 38 FPS average with all Setting son medium at 720P for Crysis with
Intel Core i5 520M 2.4GHz and 4GB of ram
Problem though is the 1GB variant being used.
So has anyone bitten on your MacBook Pro with free pirated software for ONLY $2400 yet?
rmrbrown, what did you do with the MBP 2.8 you bought last month? Glad I waited. Typing on my brand new i5 17".![]()
The VRAM of the GPU is used to store information that the GPU needs fast access to. In games, this would be textures and geometry. In CAD and other 3D applications it also stores similar data.
In games and CAD, the only performance increase would be due to the fact that the graphics card would be able to load more/larger textures & geometry.
The issue here is that the 330m is not a high performance graphics card. It is too slow to render high detail textures and geometry that are capable of being stored in 512mb of VRAM.
In other words, you will see very minimal increases with the bump in VRAM.
Sadly all the benchmarks they did for the 330M are the 1GB variant.
I can't wait to play the original Portal (never played it before!) on my brand new MBP when Steam comes out...
All I can say is that on the 15" 2.8GHz mbp with the 9600m gt card, the game mass effect 2 was pretty bad in the fps department (turned off all the 4 graphics options) and I just tested it out on my i7 mbp which ran considerably faster.
I still turned off all the 4 options under the gpu menu and now 95% of the game play is fluid with hardly any frames dropping. The only time it shows a little bit of frame drop is when there are 4+ enemy battles and now its more than playable!
Which notebook?I played around with Left 4 Dead 2 on my windows partitions yesterday.
I seem to be able to hold steady around 60fps with everything maxed out, and 2x anti aliasing. Seems like this card is performing better than expected.
The weird thing is, windows seems to think the graphics card has 1300+ mb of video memory. Some issue with boot camp drivers I guess.
Why does everyone keep mentioning the 1GB vs 512MB? Its completely and utterly pointless:
Which notebook?
That is awesome news.I played around with Left 4 Dead 2 on my windows partitions yesterday.
I seem to be able to hold steady around 60fps with everything maxed out, and 2x anti aliasing. Seems like this card is performing better than expected.
The weird thing is, windows seems to think the graphics card has 1300+ mb of video memory. Some issue with boot camp drivers I guess.
The highest end 15 inch. The one with the i7 and 512 mb of video memory.
I played around with Left 4 Dead 2 on my windows partitions yesterday.
I seem to be able to hold steady around 60fps with everything maxed out, and 2x anti aliasing. Seems like this card is performing better than expected.
The weird thing is, windows seems to think the graphics card has 1300+ mb of video memory. Some issue with boot camp drivers I guess.
I'd love to see Bad Company 2 on the GeForce 320M.![]()
do you have the 5400 or 7200 rpm HDD?
Windows adds some 'virtual' video ram to your video card (Not sure why).
That's why Windows also says my GTX 285 has 2800 MB VRAM while it only has 1000 MB VRAM.
Windows doesn't magically add VRAM and Apple didn't hide any either. Do a bit of research!![]()
According to that, May it is then.
From some of the benchmarks I've seen of the 330m, it can run Left 4 Dead 2 maxed out at around 60-70 fps.
All I can say is that on the 15" 2.8GHz mbp with the 9600m gt card, the game mass effect 2 was pretty bad in the fps department (turned off all the 4 graphics options) and I just tested it out on my i7 mbp which ran considerably faster.
I still turned off all the 4 options under the gpu menu and now 95% of the game play is fluid with hardly any frames dropping. The only time it shows a little bit of frame drop is when there are 4+ enemy battles and now its more than playable!
Next I'll be testing out bioshock 2, the 9600m gt card ran that very poorly and I'm sure that the 330m will allow me to play it without much drop in the frames.
I played around with Left 4 Dead 2 on my windows partitions yesterday.
I seem to be able to hold steady around 60fps with everything maxed out, and 2x anti aliasing. Seems like this card is performing better than expected.
The weird thing is, windows seems to think the graphics card has 1300+ mb of video memory. Some issue with boot camp drivers I guess.
Thanks. I'm just looking for the GeForce 320M benchmarks though.The highest end 15 inch. The one with the i7 and 512 mb of video memory.