nvidia onboard graphics

[Guest]

Are these NVIDIA GeForce 7050 PV strong enought to handle newer 3D-games? or
is it better to spend more money on seperate graphics?

 

[Paul]

Are these NVIDIA GeForce 7050 PV strong enought to handle newer 3D-games? or
is it better to spend more money on seperate graphics?

The 7050 PV has the same graphics clock as a 6150.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/mobo_gpu_tech_specs.html

Some 3DMark numbers for built-in graphics are listed here.
In 3DMark2001SE, they're getting 5000-6000 points for the 6150 family.
My current video card gets 18000 points, and it is barely enough
for gaming. A good high end graphics setup gets 89000 points. That
is a factor of 15 ratio between those built-in graphics and
using graphics cards. Any demanding games, are going to be
designed for that 89000 point setup, leaving built-in graphics
as a slide show. Maybe it is good enough to play The SIMs.

http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=1900&page=11

Another comparison here, where a 7050 is compared to a 6150.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=771&num=6

On a chart here, motherboard graphics would be at the very bottom of the chart.

http://www23.tomshardware.com/graphics.html

Paul

 

[DaveW]

They are not powerful enough. You need a separate graphics card.

 

[kony]

Are these NVIDIA GeForce 7050 PV strong enought to handle newer 3D-games? or
is it better to spend more money on seperate graphics?

No onboard graphics will be fast enough to handle gaming
because it would take up too much silicon, cost too much, be
too hot-running, and require a much faster memory bus.
There won't be significant effort to improve this either
because it's just a trickle-down effect, since integrated
video is always cheaper than an add-on card, that's not
where the profit lies unless it's just a coincidence that a
particular platform is used to build the most common low-end
systems (like with the Intel Extreme graphics, which are
even slower than 7050 but by default the Intel name gets
them sales).