1520/1720 GFX card 256 mb GDDR2??

I was surfing on the Korean Dell website configuring a laptop just for fun when I came across this:



As you can see, it says 256 DDR2 dedicated. I really have no idea how it affects gaming performance, but I didn't know the 8600M GT came with 256 megs of DDR2. All I know is 256 GDDR3 and 512 GDDR2/GDDR3... maybe it's a typo. I tried checking back at the american dell site but it doesn't state the type of video memory it uses... Anyways, does anyone know if it will be likely that two different regions will use the same type of video ram or will it most likely be different?

 

According to Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8600

If you scroll all the way down to the mobility chips it says GDDR3. Perhaps its just a typo? The US site also shows GDDR2 on both cards (8400/8600). I hope that it is a typo - because I believe there is quite a significant difference between the two in terms of performance.

 

There seem to be two versions of the card: GDDR2 and GDDR3.

There was a big discussion about this in the Sager/Clevo forum when the 2090 was released.

 

Yeah I finally found it on the US dell's website... I wonder why they would even consider using GDDR2 maybe cause of heat issues and Dell's history of underclocking their video cards? Let's hope it's a typo.

 

GDDR3 is more expensive, probably. Asus and Apple are using the GDDR3, as are Sager/Clevo.

The GDDR2 card will still be really fast, but for someone needing that extra few FPS...the GDDR3 will prevail.

 

I read on the boards here someone confirmed with the dell people that it was a ddr3 on the new dells

 

I chatted with a Dell rep here in Canada who said he was 100% sure it was using DDR3.