Thread: *Updated* Laptop Graphics Cards Ranking List

Before making a purchase of a new laptop that you want to use for gaming, you might want to have a look at this list and some of the benchmarks posted at Notebookcheck: Comparison of Graphic Cards. Because once you purchase a laptop, there is not much, if any thing, that you can do about upgrading it's video card.

*Note*

This is just a reference guide. It is not set in stone, it is not perfect, it is not saying that these cards can or can't do something. You may find that the card you are researching can do what you want and play that games you want at an acceptable FPS (Frames Per Second) rate for you. This is for Mobile Graphics Cards, not for all cards that are included in all systems. This is just the latest list posted. It may not contain the latest mobile graphics cards right now. When more cards are added, we will edit this post.

Ranked from Best to Worst via GPUs.

Class 1
High End Graphics Cards -
These cards are compareable to enthusiasm desktop graphics cards, like the 9800M GT. The cards have a similar core, as their desktop counterparts, but are clocked lower and often have less shader processors. Modern games like Age of Conan, Race Driver Grid, Call of Duty 4, Mass Effect, or Gothic 3 should run fluently with high details (Crysis should run in medium to high details).

» NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M SLI
» ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire
» NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285M SLI
» NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M SLI
» ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2
» NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M
» NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M SLI
» NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTX SLI
» ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870
» NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800M
» NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285M
» ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870
» NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M
» NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GT SLI
» NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS SLI
» ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2
» NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTX SLI
» ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850 X2
» NVIDIA Quadro FX 3700M
» ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4860
» ATI FirePro M7740
» ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4850
» NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M
» NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTX
» NVIDIA Quadro FX 2800M
» NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GT
» NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTX
» NVIDIA Quadro FX 3600M
» ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850
» NVIDIA GeForce GTS 360M
» NVIDIA GeForce GTS 260M
» NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M
» NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS
» NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GS
» ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5830
» ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4830
» NVIDIA GeForce GTS 150M

Class 2
Midrange Graphics Cards - These cards should be able to display all current games with fluent framerates but not all with high detail settings. Especially demanding games like Crysis, Age of Conan, or Mass Effect are only playable with lower settings. Less demanding (and older) games, like Fifa 08, Command & Conquer 3, or Battlefield 2142 can be played with higher detail levels.

» NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTS
» ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5770
» ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5750
» ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5730
» ATI FirePro M5800
» ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650
» NVIDIA GeForce GTS 350M
» NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M
» ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4670
» NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GTS
» NVIDIA Quadro FX 2700M
» NVIDIA GeForce GT 335M
» NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800M
» ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870
» ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5165
» ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4650
» NVIDIA GeForce Go 7950 GTX SLI
» NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GTX SLI
» ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850
» NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M
» NVIDIA Quadro FX 880M
» NVIDIA Quadro NVS 5100M
» NVIDIA GeForce GT 240M
» NVIDIA GeForce Go 7950 GTX
» NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500M
» NVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT SLI
» NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GT
» NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M
» NVIDIA GeForce GT 325M
» NVIDIA GeForce Go 7800 GTX SLI
» NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT SLI
» NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS SLI
» NVIDIA GeForce GT 130M
» NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GTX
» NVIDIA Quadro FX 2500M
» NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GT
» NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GS
» NVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT
» NVIDIA Quadro FX 1700M
» NVIDIA Quadro FX 1600M
» NVIDIA GeForce Go 7800 GTX
» NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS
» NVIDIA Quadro NVS 320M
» NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500M
» NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT
» NVIDIA GeForce GT 220M
» NVIDIA Quadro FX 770M
» NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M
» NVIDIA GeForce GT 320M
» ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3670
» ATI Mobility FireGL V5725
» ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600 XT
» ATI Mobility Radeon X1900
» ATI Mobility Radeon X1800XT
» ATI Mobility Radeon X1800
» NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800 Ultra
» NVIDIA GeForce Go 7800
» NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS
» NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS
» ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5470
» ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2700
» ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650
» ATI Mobility FireGL V5700
» ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5145
» NVIDIA GeForce 320M
» ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570
» ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5450
» NVIDIA Quadro FX 570M
» NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT
» ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600
» NVIDIA GeForce Go 7600 GT
» ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5430

Class 3
Low-Midrange Graphics Cards - Lower end of Graphics Cards for users who want to play games. New games should run on these cards, but only with decreased details and mediocre resolution.

» ATI Mobility Radeon HD 560v
» ATI Mobility Radeon HD 550v
» NVIDIA GeForce 310M
» NVIDIA Quadro FX 380M
» NVIDIA GeForce G 210M
» NVIDIA Quadro NVS 3100M
» NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G
» NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS
» NVIDIA Quadro NVS 2100M
» NVIDIA GeForce Go 7700
» NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800
» NVIDIA Quadro FX Go 1400
» ATI Mobility Radeon X800XT
» ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4550
» ATI Mobility Radeon HD 545v
» ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4530
» ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4350
» ATI Mobility Radeon HD 530v
» ATI Mobility Radeon X1700
» ATI Mobility FireGL V5250
» ATI Mobility Radeon X2500
» NVIDIA GeForce Go 7600
» NVIDIA Quadro NVS 300M
» ATI Mobility Radeon X800
» ATI Mobility Radeon X1600
» ATI Mobility FireGL V5200
» ATI Mobility Radeon 9800
» NVIDIA GeForce Go 6600
» ATI Mobility Radeon X1450
» ATI Mobility Radeon X700
» ATI Mobility FireGL V5000
» NVIDIA GeForce 305M
» NVIDIA GeForce G 110M
» ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4330
» NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GT
» NVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M
» NVIDIA GeForce G 105M
» NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GE
» NVIDIA GeForce G 103M
» NVIDIA GeForce G 102M
» NVIDIA GeForce G 205M
» NVIDIA GeForce 9400M (G) / ION (LE)
» NVIDIA ION 2
» ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 Hybrid X2
» NVIDIA GeForce 9400M GeForceBoost
» ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470
» NVIDIA GeForce 9300M G
» NVIDIA GeForce 9300M GS
» NVIDIA Quadro FX 370M
» NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M
» NVIDIA GeForce 9200M GS
» ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3450
» ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3430
» ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3410
» ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2400 XT
» ATI Radeon HD 4270
» ATI Radeon HD 4250
» ATI Radeon HD 4200
» Intel Graphics Media Accelerator HD Graphics
» NVIDIA Quadro NVS 150M
» NVIDIA Quadro FX 360M
» ATI Mobility Radeon X1350
» ATI Mobility Radeon X1400
» NVIDIA GeForce 9100M G
» NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS
» NVIDIA Quadro NVS 135M
» ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2400
» ATI Radeon HD 4100
» ATI Radeon HD 3200
» ATI Radeon HD 4225
» ATI Radeon HD 3100
» NVIDIA GeForce 8400M G
» NVIDIA GeForce 8200M G
» Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4700MHD
» Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500MHD
» Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500M
» NVIDIA Quadro NVS 130M
» NVIDIA GeForce Go 7400
» NVIDIA Quadro FX 350M
» NVIDIA Quadro NVS 120M
» NVIDIA GeForce Go 7300
» NVIDIA Quadro NVS 110M
» ATI Mobility Radeon X600
» ATI Mobility FireGL V3200
» ATI Mobility FireGL V3100
» ATI Mobility Radeon X2300
» ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2300
» ATI Mobility Radeon 9700
» ATI Mobility FireGL T2e

Class 4
Barely Games-Capable - Most not fastidious current games can be played fluently. Prepare for reduced graphical persentations due to low detail settings and low resolutions. Still, these cards provide enough performance for office tasks or video viewing (inconclusively for HD videos).

» ATI Mobility Radeon X1300
» NVIDIA GeForce4 4200 Go
» ATI Mobility Radeon 9600
» ATI Mobility FireGL T2
» ATI Mobility Radeon 9550
» NVIDIA GeForce Go 7200
» NVIDIA GeForce Go 6400
» ATI Mobility Radeon X300
» NVIDIA GeForce Go 6250
» NVIDIA GeForce Go 6200
» NVIDIA GeForce FX Go 5700
» NVIDIA Quadro FX Go 1000
» NVIDIA GeForce FX Go 5600 / 5650

Class 5
Low End Graphics Cards - Only older games can be played fluently with these graphics chips (if they were not too demanding). Shared memory graphic cores in this category got the advantage of less heat production and longer battery runtimes. For office, internet, image processing, and video editing tasks these graphics chips are still useable without any restrictions.

» ATI Radeon Xpress X1270
» ATI Radeon Xpress X1250
» ATI Radeon Xpress 1250
» ATI Radeon Xpress X1200
» Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) X3100
» ATI Radeon Xpress 1150
» NVIDIA GeForce 7150M
» NVIDIA GeForce Go 6150
» NVIDIA GeForce Go 6100
» NVIDIA GeForce 7000M
» ATI Mobility Radeon 9200
» ATI Mobility FireGL 9000
» NVIDIA GeForce FX Go 5200
» ATI Mobility Radeon 9000
» NVIDIA GeForce 4 488 Go
» NVIDIA GeForce 4 440 Go
» NVIDIA GeForce 4 420 Go
» Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 3150
» Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 950
» ATI Mobility Radeon 7500
» ATI Mobility FireGL 7800
» Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 900
» ATI Radeon Xpress 200M
» ATI Radeon Xpress 1100

Class 6
Unsuitable for Games - These graphics cards for notebooks are not suitable for games. If they run, they may run with graphical errors and very low frame rates. For gamers these chips are not suitable! Office and internet tasks are, to the contrary, no problem for these GPUs.

» SIS Mirage 3+ 672MX
» SIS Mirage 3 671MX
» Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 600
» Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 500
» NVIDIA GeForce 3 Go
» NVIDIA GeForce 2 Go (200 / 100)
» ATI Mobility Radeon 9100 IGP
» ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 IGP
» ATI Mobility Radeon M7
» ATI Mobility Radeon M6
» ATI Mobility Radeon 7000 IGP
» VIA Chrome9 HC
» Intel Extreme Graphics 2
» ATI Radeon IGP 340M
» VIA S3G UniChrome Pro II
» VIA S3G UniChrome Pro
» SIS Mirage 2 M760
» SIS Mirage M661FX
» VIA S3 Graphics ProSavage8
» VIA Castle Rock
» ATI Mobility 128 M3

For further information and benchmarks, check out Notebookcheck: Comparison of Graphic Cards

By Zedman3d and vernong1992 and Keyboard Cowboy
Last Edited by Mak213

*Note*

This is just a reference guide. It is not set in stone, it is not perfect, it is not saying that these cards can or can't do something. You may find that the card you are researching can do what you want and play that games you want at an acceptable FPS (Frames Per Second) rate for you. This is for Mobile Graphics Cards, not for all cards that are included in all systems. This is just the latest list posted. It may not contain the latest mobile graphics cards right now. When more cards are added, we will edit this post.

*Next Update*
August 1, 2010

Stickied.

thanks man

I added a couple of items on there:

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3800, ATI Mobility Radeon X1800XT, NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800 Ultra

When it need's updating drop me a PM with the new list and i will edit the original post for you.

the 9600 and 9700 go right under the 9800.

8800m gts right under gtx.

nice!

So, 7900 GTX is better than 8800M GTS ?!!

its what a Laptop Forum told me, but if you know how to fix up stuff thats messed up, feel free to tell