What's more important? Processor or Video card for laptop gaming?

Which is most import for laptop gaming? Video card or processor?



For example, is a 2.26GHz processor with a nvidia geforce 9800GS 512MB of dedicated memory better or a 2.4GHz processor with an ATI Radeon 3670 512MB of dedicated memory better?



What exactly does a processor do for a laptop?|||Well this depends.



Do you prefer faster running game with low quality graphics or high quality graphics with slower running game?



If you prefer the first then a processor would be more important but if you prefer the second then video card would be more important.





I would say video card. Nothing is more annoying than a really terrible quality game. Or in my case, when one specific color flashes all over the screen and never stops.|||A processor power's the computing part of a laptop, when you want to do something on the computer, the processor gathers, the information on the program from the hard drive and executes it.



I would go with the Nvidia. Although the Radeon has a higher clock speed the Nvidia has a faster interface and way higher benchmarks.



In my opinion the CPU and GPU should be balanced. Like, do you want a graphics monster but a poor performer in terms of processing, what's the point of having a great GPU, if you can't take advantage of the graphic effect's 'cause your processor can't handle it.



http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeFo…



http://www.notebookcheck.net/ATI-Mobilit…



If you're shopping for a laptop I would go with the 2.26GHz(a respectable speed) and the GeForce, but that's just my opinion.



Hope this helps.|||Well first of all a laptop is pretty bad for gaming in general... unless it's one of those "gaming" laptops that go upwards of 3 grand. But anywhoooo a better graphics card will get better FPS. There's benchmarks done when upgrading to a quad core the frame rates only change bout 2-5 frames... nothing special with a uber fast processor.