NVidia: this will be demanding, but...

[Alwin Roth]

Ok, So I want to get a gaming laptop,
I need to also figure out which NVidia Graphics card is the best,

so here's what im asking:

Can someone post some of the 2008-2009 Nvidia Graphic cards from lowest to best and the best game it could play at max settings?

+Rep?

[beele]

I have a 9800M GS, I can play almost everything at max with high res. I'd say go for the 9800M GS of GTS or the newer "much" more powerfull 260M

I have around 8.8k 3dmark 06 points with factory clocks, with my oc-on I get just under 10k

[Wakeboy1337]

I have Nvidia 8700GT in sli in my laptop. It would be much better to spring for the 8800 in sli with one gig of vram or better yet the 9800 as beele stated.

[Alwin Roth]

Still no lists :(

Whats the best this can play?
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M


So far I'm going with this laptop:
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=9366651&st=asus&type=product&id=1218092150636

[Ganon]

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Mobile-Graphics-Cards-Benchmark-List.844.0.html

For future reference, benchmarks are what the comparison you are looking for is called.

[legionaire45]

My 260M + 9400M in Hybrid SLI can play L4D and any other Source game maxed. Plays Company of Heroes at 25-40FPS depending on map and sometimes that fluctuates a bit.

[Warsaw]

GTX280M is the most powerful mobile GPU out there right now (only because the notebook 4870 is hampered by GDDR3 and lower clocks). That being said, it takes two of them to run Crysis on Very High at 1920x1200 at around 18 frames per second or worse. One of them will likely play every other game maxed except perhaps Far Cry 2.

GTX260M ain't a bad way to go either, though it isn't as robust; you'll have to turn it down for something like Far Cry 2 if you want to do it at 1920x1200. Also, don't have as much room to splurge on high AA and AF settings (which goes for any mobile GPU really).

My advice to you? Wait until Q2 2010 to get a laptop, because mobile i7s come out (see Clarksfield and Calpella) around the same time as Windows 7 and ATi's new DX11 chips, which means by Q2 and Q3 2010, we should see high-end laptops incorporating the best of all three; DX11 cards, Windows 7, and Core i7.