How does the 320M compare to the ATI X1600?

[Gomff]

Hi everyone
I currently use a 4 year old MBP with an X1600 GPU. Thinking about going for an Air, and wondering what the 320M is like in comparison.

I play the occasional game but principally would use the machine as a holiday / travel laptop and would hope to be able to do light 3D graphics work on it. I know it's never going to replace a desktop machine but I'm quite good at working within hardware constraints.

Is the 320M a much better GPU? If so by what order of magnitude?

 

[Adidas Addict]

Hi everyone
I currently use a 4 year old MBP with an X1600 GPU. Thinking about going for an Air, and wondering what the 320M is like in comparison.

I play the occasional game but principally would use the machine as a holiday / travel laptop and would hope to be able to do light 3D graphics work on it. I know it's never going to replace a desktop machine but I'm quite good at working within hardware constraints.

Is the 320M a much better GPU? If so by what order of magnitude?

About twice as powerful/fast

http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-320M.28701.0.html

http://www.notebookcheck.net/ATI-Mobility-Radeon-X1600.2163.0.html

 

[fuzzielitlpanda]

according to 3DMark06, the 320M is about 3X better.

http://www.notebookcheck.net/ATI-Mobility-Radeon-X1600.2163.0.html

http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-320M.28701.0.html

 

[Gomff]

Thanks for the info people. Although now the temptation to buy one has gone up massively, since the 320M is much better than I thought it would be.

Bugger.