Laptop Graphics Card: 7 Best with prices, reviews and specs

The GeForce GTX 580M SLI by NVIDIA is one of the world’s fastest DirectX 11 GPU. It is built with a new thermal design while behaving quietly than its successors. A pair of hi-tech wireless glasses and advanced software can make you experience PC games, movies and photographs in full stereoscopic 3D. The power of NVIDIA 3D Vision and SLI technology expands the display of your games across three screens with non-stereo displays. Its CUDA technology speeds up the most demanding tasks like video encoding, physics simulation, ray tracing, etc. Its high speed anti-aliasing is up to 32x. It gives smooth video with accurate color and precise image scaling with its PureVideo HD technology. The PCI Express 2.0 offers high speed bus architecture while the Dual-link DVI Support can easily drive up to 2560x1600 resolution displays with High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP).

The ATI Mobility Radeon HD 6990, is a high-end graphics card meant for 17"inches laptops and above. Enabled with DirectX 11 Evolved technology, OpenGL 4.1, DirectCompute 11 and OpenCL, the 6990M delivers intense gaming performance and spectacular graphics. This technology uses the power of two GPUs delivering 2GB of ultra-fast GDDR5 memory, 1.6 teraFlops of computation power and 2 times power of 1120 stream processors. The AMD HD3D technology makes you visualize games and movies in stereoscopic 3D. Plus, the AMD App Acceleration accelerates the working of media rich applications. The new UVD3 video processor supports decoding of various video formats while the Eyefinity+ graphics chip can (theoretically) drive up to 6 monitors simultaneously.

The NVIDIA Quadro series of graphics card offers complete solutions for professional 3D applications. Built on the innovative Fermi architecture, this card is aimed at accelerating CAD (Computer Aided Design) and DCC (Digital Content Creation). This latest mobile graphics integrates high performance computing with advanced visualization, transforming your laptop into a mobile super computer. This card improves geometry performance across CAD, DCC and medical applications through its certified drivers, allowing you to work on more complex models and scenes. Its fast 64-bit floating point arithmetic results in accurate mission-critical applications while L1 and L2 caches working in parallel, produce exceptional throughput. It also delivers a great image quality with its FSAA (Full-Scene Ant aliasing), high dynamic range (HDR) technology resulting in image quality and clarity and Tessellation with Shader model 5.0 for detailed geometry.

This DirectX 11 capable graphics card by AMD is based on the desktop HD 5770 (RV840) chip. Its memory interface is composed of 64 bit wide controllers, resulting in 128 bit memory bus which is capable of accessing 1024MB of DDR3. Its 800 MADD cores (Stream Processors) are grouped in 5-dimensional groups. The cores support the hardware functions of Microsoft DirectX 11 like, tessellation, OIT, Post-Processing, Shadows and HDR Texture Compression. In case of general computing, this card has an improved performance of ATI stream, OpenCL and DirectCompute 11 applications.

The Radeon HD 5830 uses an improved video processor (UVD2) for decoding HD videos. With the high GDDR5 memory bandwidth, the new version of the processor can even decode two HD streams simultaneously. The 5830 is also able to speed up Flash HD videos, eg. YouTube. The HD 5000 series by AMD is able to transmit HD audio formats with up to 8 channels, like, Dolby True HD and DTS HD Master Audio. Last but certainly not the least, its Eyefinity technology allows connecting up to 6 monitors to the graphics card.

Experience life like images and explosive gaming performance with mind-blowing effects with the new technology brought by AMD. Its DirectX 11 compatibility offers stereoscopic 3D effects while the HD3D technology of AMD takes you to another level of interactive gaming. It is slightly higher clocked than its predecessor 5830, which means faster performance. It is based on the desktop HD 5770 (RV840) chip. It supports high-definition audio with stunning HD video playback and enhanced application performance due to AMD App Acceleration. Complementing all these is its Eyefinity technology allowing connection of up to 6 monitors. The 6830M is suitable for 15-17"inches laptops due to its low power consumption.

This video card delivers reliable hardware and software environment which is compatible with all the latest applications to match up to the demands of today’s professionals. Supported with Optimum technology, it gives an outstanding graphic performance with long battery life. It delivers a clock rate of 810MHz and supports HDMI 1.3 up to 1920 x 1080 and Multimode DisplayPort up to 2560x1600. 7.1 channel HD audio can also be transmitted over the HDMI port.

The Fire GL V5725 is a graphics card meant for mobile laptops and workstations. It features 120 stream processors working in 24, 5-dimensional structure to process graphical tasks. It comes certified with CAD and DCC applications, guaranteeing optimum usage of almost all kinds of professional applications. This chip is manufactured in 55nm technology. It supports DirectX 10.1 and Avivo HD for decoding HD videos using the the GPU.