Nvidia GT310M or GT320M?

[shazzatpm]

Hi everyone,

I'm in the process of buying a mid-range laptop. The only difference between two ASUS Laptops is a GT310M or GT320M? What should I get? While the GT310M only uses 512MB integrated graphics, compared to a 1GB of GT320M, it would mean I would have more RAM. Is there much improvement? I want to play some video games, but I am not a huge gamer and don't care of ultra high graphics.

What is more important? More RAM or more graphics memory?

Cheers!

 

[BG-0]

Neither really. With the 320M you can set the amount of RAM allocated to it to anything between 32 M or some other tiny amount and 1 GB. That is, if it doesn't have dedicated graphics memory for it, so that you actually don't use any RAM for it.

Anyways. If the one with GT320M isn't a lot more expensive (say, over $30-50), get that one. It's going to be better in games because of the better graphics adapter. (not because it uses more graphics memory, but is more powerful in other ways)