How do I compare laptop video cards to desktop video cards?

I understand that the first number is the series. How do you read the numbers in laptop video cards? For example the GeForce GT 335m vs GeForce 6600GT. Which is better? I don't know how to find out if my laptop video card can run games because the always say the desktop version. What is the equivalent to the GeForce GT 335m and how do you find out? I understand how to tell the better desktop card, so what is the difference?|||Desktops video cards are bigger and generally require more power....more powerful of course.|||What I do is. I goto WIKI.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_…

so many factors come in on these stats. the bandwidth, the shaders, but also the bus-width.

all the stats aren't in yet.



also, just check out 3dmark06 scores and Vantage scores for the gt335 and than compare them to desktop cards.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQKZdXmQq…



A 3dmark06 score of 6100. thats pretty good.



http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/gamin…



compare it there, and it's like a 7900gtx, 1950xtx



so than do some more searching of other cards, and come across something like this....



http://www.legitreviews.com/article/486/…



and you have your answer. it's the equivalent to an xfx 8600gts XXX edition. which is a highly overclocked card.







so i usually go by 3dmark06 default score, which is 1280x1024 no AA.|||Desktop video cards are Tigers, laptop video cards are Cheetahs. They are both cats but do not mix well together even though they make their living the same way, they hunt.



You need to find websites that review laptop video cards. I did a quick search with Yahoo Search and found this site (http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeFo… which does a pretty good job explaining what your video card can do. If you do some more research I’m sure you could find even more sites full of revues of laptop products.