Comparing my computer graphics cards.

[Hero in a half shell]

I recently got a new laptop, and it's working out pretty well, but I was wondering if it was more powerful or less powerful than my previous one graphics wise. (my old laptop was a beast!) I tried to google them but couldn't find any proper comparisons or info. So firstly I'd like to know just how good my graphics card and processor are, and will it run Skyrim?

My new graphics card: NVIDIA 315M gDDR3 1GB
And my processor: Intel Core i3 380M

I know a little about graphics cards, that DDR3 is very good to have, and 1GB could be better, but I have no idea just how up to date this graphics card is, and google didn't really help me.

Now Skyrims predicted graphics needs:

Spoiler

Minimum System Requirements

* OS: Windows XP, Vista or Windows 7
* CPU: Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHz or Althon X2 2.0 GHz
* RAM: 3 GB
* HDD: 15 GB
* Graphics: 512 MB card
* Sound Card: DirectX 9 Compatible
* DirectX: Version 9.0c

Recommended System Requirements

* OS: Windows XP, Vista or Windows 7
* CPU: Core 2 Quad 3 GHz
* RAM: 3 GB
* HDD: 15 GB free disk space
* Graphics: 512 MB Graphics Memory
* Sound Card: DirectX 9 Compatible
* DirectX: Version 9.0c

Supported Graphics Cards:

Minimum ? 8800 GT
Recommanded ? Geforce GTX 460/Radeon 5850

Secondly I was just wondering how this compared to my old laptops specs;
NVIDIA Geforce 8600m GS 256MB
Core 2 Duo T7300

 

[Woodsey]

"will it run Skyrim?"

We don't know, we haven't played it. And considering those aren't official specs (and official specs can normally be fairly useless), trying to guess won't help either.

Anyway, mobile graphics chipsets are normally not supported by games (even though they might still run them), so that can be somewhat of a crapshoot too.

That said, new specs trump the old ones. 8600 is an old card.

 

[Hero in a half shell]

Cool, thanks guys, could someone explain my processor, do you know if it dual core/quad core or whatever?