CPU & Grpahic Card in a Laptop?

Hi folks,

In choosing a laptop that I plan to use "Strictly" for Video Editing, Encoding, Re-Encoding, ... and so forth ... (I am not worrying about Gaming at all).

Which combination would give me the "Fastest" operation ...

A) A fast processor with an integrated Graphic Card on it? For example T7200 or T7300 and Intel onboard Graphic.

B) A lesser speed processor with a "Dedicated Graphic Card" with high Memory. for example T7100 with Nvidia with 256MB memory.

Thanks,
G!

 

Integrated graphics and a faster processor is probably the best way to go. Integrated graphics are known to increase speed and take up a lot less power. Since you will be doing video editing etc....I'm not really sure if the nVidia card would be better for you.

From what I know, A is the better option, especially if it is the X3100, which is supposed to be the best integrated chipset.

 

Hi Illmatic,

Thanks for your reply ...

From reading this forum and various "Stickies" ... I kinda suspected for my use I probably Won't need a dedicated Graphic card ... and a faster CPU is the way to go ... but I wanted to hear it from few of the Guru's here ...

BTW, I have been eyeing a "Vaio" also.

Thanks,
G!

 

oh wait a sec. hold everything.

just to clear this up.

integrated processors are NOT known to increase speed. NO. Bad.

you will get better battery life.

generally your processor is the most intensive component when you encoding videos. unfortunately, this means that when you are encoding videos, your processor is going to be putting all of its might into that process, and you will essentially lock up your system.

in *some* cases you can have the gpu assist your processor in the encoding job. this would be the fastest solution for video encoding, if you could get your processor + graphics processor working on the task at the same time. additionally, that would free up some of your cpu resources and the computer wouldn't feel locked up while you are encoding. i don't know where to direct you to read more about that, but i know it can be done.

also- doing a single threaded encode with a dual core processor would leave one core to perform other operating system tasks. this is not ideal either because it will take substantially longer to complete the task than with both cores working on it full grunt.

anyway- i think you should do more research before giving up on a dedicated gpu (8400m or comparable)

 

the fastest processor + integrated card.
Your processor is being used in encoding, not the graphics card.

 

While it is possible that a program could use the GPU to help the CPU encode, currently there is no program I am aware of, that does that for video editing/encoding.

An example of a program that uses the GPU to help the CPU is Folding @ Home, although this is for research, not actually user encoding.

Bottom line, get the fastest CPU you can with biggest amount of L2 cache.

 

Hi folks,

THANKS a bunch for your help.

G!