The inspiron 6000 is supposedly getting the option of a PCI-E radeon x300 soon. This card is basically a radeon 9600 which is way way way better than the GMA900. You may want to wait for that option.
If the X300 has a 64bit memory bus i retract my previous statement because in that case the R9600 will be better by a noticable margin. I had read in some basic overviews that the X300 is based on the R9600 core and assumed similar performance. The actual 3D core of the X300 will be better than the R9600 but due to slow memory performance (and a possible limit of 64MB) the X300 isnt as good as the R9600. However that X300 card should outpace the GMA900 by a lot.
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http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2143
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February 6th, 2005 12:00
DX9.0
4 Pixel Pipelines
2 Vertex Engines
Upto 16 Textures Per Pixel
Smoothvision 2.1
SmartShader 2.0
337MHz Core Clock - 1348Mpixels/s
486MHz Memory Clock (128bit) - 7.8GB/s
The specs of the Mobility X300:
DX9.0
4 Pixel Pipelines
2 Vertex Engines
Upto 16 Textures per Pixel
Smoothvision 2.1
SmartShader 2.0
350MHz Core Clock - 1400Mpixels/s
300MHz Memory Clock (Assuming 64bit) - 2.4GB/s
If the X300 has a 64bit memory bus i retract my previous statement because in that case the R9600 will be better by a noticable margin. I had read in some basic overviews that the X300 is based on the R9600 core and assumed similar performance. The actual 3D core of the X300 will be better than the R9600 but due to slow memory performance (and a possible limit of 64MB) the X300 isnt as good as the R9600. However that X300 card should outpace the GMA900 by a lot.
Message Edited by RRules on 02-06-2005 09:45 AM
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Yeah I just read it...LOL
Just like I said before alot. Intergraded graphics are not good. :smileywink: