Nvidia 8600M GT OR NVidia 9600 M GS?

[J.Yanez]

I have a little dilemma. Im a little ignorant on laptop video cards. Can anyone tell me which of this laptop video cards is better for gaming?

On one hand an Nvidia 8600 M GT or a Nvidia 9600 M GS?

And what kind of games will it be able to run?

 

[/\E]

I have an 8600M GT and it runs everything at Medium... It's not a Crysis-killer or anything but it does do what is expected...

The 8600M GT got a slightly higher 3DMark06 score...

http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-8600M-GT.3986.0.html
http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-9600M-GS.9450.0.html

 

[J.Yanez]

I have an 8600M GT and it runs everything at Medium... It's not a Crysis-killer or anything but it does do what is expected...

The 8600M GT got a slightly higher 3DMark06 score...

http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-8600M-GT.3986.0.html
http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-9600M-GS.9450.0.html

Doesnt it show the 9600 to be 7700 and the 8600 to be 6175 in the 3d mark score?

 

[/\E]

Doesnt it show the 9600 to be 7700 and the 8600 to be 6175 in the 3d mark score?

That's 05.... Look at the pink charts...

 

[Intel_man]

From the specs, the 9600M GS is better. All you need to do is clock it at par with the 8600GT and it will be faster.