Can I play KH1 or KH2?

[sickamore]

man idk what kojis been saying my brother has a 8600gt and it doesnt perform as good as this card on my laptop. I also play at 1600x900 res in KH1 and stil get full 60 fps, I also get 55-60 frames in FFX unless the bosses do huge spells, even summons dont lower the frame rates during their animations.

[Shadow Lady]

There are many explanations why a system wouldn't perform as the other but from the specs the 8600gt is indeed better than a 310m. FFX depends more on CPU for starters...

[ReIyZa]

There are many explanations why a system wouldn't perform as the other but from the specs the 8600gt is indeed better than a 310m. FFX depends more on CPU for starters...

How can an 8600GT be greater than a 310m? Is the 8 GeForce series greater than the 9xxx and 3xx series?

[smartstrike]

There are many explanations why a system wouldn't perform as the other but from the specs the 8600gt is indeed better than a 310m. FFX depends more on CPU for starters...

How can an 8600GT be greater than a 310m? Is the 8 GeForce series greater than the 9xxx and 3xx series?

310m is a early entry while 8600 is a middle-range w/c means 8600GT is better than 310

examples of entries:
Early entry:
(second digit start at 0~4) like 8000GT to 8400GT,310m to 340m..
these entries are in weak/poor GPU perfromance...and it's not expensive.

Middle-range:
(Second digit start at 5~7)like 8600GT to 8700GT and 350m to 370m
these entries are in fair and possible good performance...and fair to expensive.

High-Ends:like 8800GT~8999GT and 380m~399m,470~499 GTX
(Second digit start at 8~9)
these entries are in great performance but can be cost a lot of power (TDP) and high temperatures especially on laptops....and too expensive to buy it.

[Shadow Lady]

How can an 8600GT be greater than a 310m? Is the 8 GeForce series greater than the 9xxx and 3xx series?

It's complicated... 8600m gt is a 3/4 generations older "middle range" card and the 310m is a one gen old "lowest end" card, the 310M is still weaker than the 8600m gt going by raw power, the one that would compare to the 8600m gt would be a 320m which is still a low end card for the 3xx generation. The cards naming is just way too confusing...

The first number just says the generation of the card not the raw power, not exact dates but goes something like this: 7xxx ~2006, 8xxx ~2007, 9xxx ~2008, 1xx/2xx ~2009, 3xx/4xx ~2010

The raw power is usually represented by the second number (actually more like price range...) and is from lowest to highest so for example "8800 > 8600 > 8500 > 8400 > 8300 > 8200". Each new generation tends to improve the older generation card in that same range if even a little, so 9600 is better than 8600 but not better than 8800. Keep that a couple gens and then you can get a low end card that can compare to an old generation mid range like the 320m does to the 8600m but the 310m is still not good enough, the 415m which is the lowest of the 4xx however is about as good as the 8600m

There's also the GTX/GTS/GT/GS at the end or beginning of the card name that also adds more confusion x.x

But anyways the naming for graphic cards is pretty bad, especially because they tend to rename cards as a new card on the next generation, like in desktops the 9500GT is basically a 8600GT, the first 9800gt were the same as the 8800GT, GTS 250 is a 9800GTX+ etc etc etc

Edit:
Right... what tallbender said is simpler, I guess I took too much to try to explain and ended up with gibberish

[ReIyZa]

How can an 8600GT be greater than a 310m? Is the 8 GeForce series greater than the 9xxx and 3xx series?

It's complicated... 8600m gt is a 3/4 generations older "middle range" card and the 310m is a one gen old "lowest end" card, the 310M is still weaker than the 8600m gt going by raw power, the one that would compare to the 8600m gt would be a 320m which is still a low end card for the 3xx generation. The cards naming is just way too confusing...

The first number just says the generation of the card not the raw power, not exact dates but goes something like this: 7xxx ~2006, 8xxx ~2007, 9xxx ~2008, 1xx/2xx ~2009, 3xx/4xx ~2010

There's also the GTX/GTS/GT/GS at the end or beginning of the card name that also adds more confusion x.x

Edit: Oh my god... I Didn't know GPU's are this complicated.. now i'm confused on what to buy!!! xD

http://www.villman.com/Category/PCI-E-Video-Cards

So that's why a higher model like the 8800GT costs ***** loads of money..!! now i'm too broke to buy a GPU!

[Shadow Lady]

Yeah, I'd say the way to go is knowing how much money you can/want to spend and then try to get the best possible for that money, there are usually cards known to be good or bad for the price.