ATI Radeon Mobility HD5870 vs Nvidia GeForce GTS 360M

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Which is better? The Toshiba Qosmio X505-Q880 (18.4") with the Nvidia card, or the Asus G73JH (17.3") with the Ati card...
Consider the price difference, as well as the performance.
 
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Asus without a doubt 5870 is fastest single mobile card, performs between 5750 and 5770 desktop card (800shaders 700mhz clock). Only sli\cf configurations of mobile cards beat it.

http://www.notebookcheck.net/ATI-Mobility-Radeon-HD-5870.23073.0.html

360m is just a respin if 260m which is like a gt240 desktop card (96 unified pipelines, undisclosed Clock speeds)

I know which I would rather have in my desktop, 5750/70 way beats gt240 any day of the week.

Also Asus beat Toshiba in the reliability index but both were top 5 so both good.

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/asus-apple-lenovo-rescuecom-reliability,9720.html?xtmc=reliability&xtcr=1

Only thing i like is the toshibas SSD option, but leaving that out of the asus makes it cheaper.
 

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the gtx 280m is the fastest mobile gpu and the ati 5870m stand very close to it...

the gts 360 is just above the ati 5850m and so is a very good purchase.. you should get the performance of a gt 240 desktop edition with the gts 360m
 
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No warlord, 5870m is faster than 280m, up to 25% faster indeed, look at links provided in first post, compare benches of 5870 and 280m.

5870 is only single mobile gpu at 19xx resolution I would buy right as it will play at that resolution for a while to come.

Only sli beats it, and I do not see 360 aka gts240 playing 19xx well or for long!