Video comparison

Where can I find a comparison of the video cards in the macbook pro vs the video cards in the imac?

Try geekbench
Primate Labs Geekbench
Primate Labs Blog : Mac Benchmarks
Primate Labs Geekbench

and mactracker
Mactracker

Is there a specific program you want to run?

There is this article
Why go Pro when iMac goes faster? | Business Center | Macworld
And yes it is a pro but expect the imac to be much better than the macbookpro.

That being said - it is difficult to find an apples to apples comparison of just video cards for the mac. Most test suites seem to run system type tests.

Here's another thing to consider - mobile chipsets are usually fairly good reductions compared to their desktop counterparts (whether it be speed, pipelines, etc.) - I know in the MBP it's using a mobile chipset. In the iMac, I'm not sure - they are labeling it as a ATI Radeon 4xxx HD - the mobile version is specifically named ATI Mobility Radeon - so unless you can confirm which version of ATI is really in the iMac, it will be even harder to compare because comparing laptop to desktop video chipsets is almost like comparing apples to oranges because you'd have to convert for equivalents.

If it's all notebook based chipsets, and if you're looking for a gaming comparison, you can check here which splits off the GPUs into tiers:

Notebookcheck: Comparison of Graphic Cards

I had heard somewhere that a macbook pro would be better suited for gaming than the imac. I am not overly concerned, I was just trying to find some numbers to look at. Thanks for those links

IvanLasston said:

There is this article
Why go Pro when iMac goes faster? | Business Center | Macworld
And yes it is a pro but expect the imac to be much better than the macbookpro.

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You are a little wrong in your summation of that article you linked. It's nothing to do with Macbook Pros. That article is imac vs Mac Pro. And it basically says im most categories the i7 is the way better machine. At half the cost.

the8thark said:

You are a little wrong in your summation of that article you linked. It's nothing to do with Macbook Pros. That article is imac vs Mac Pro. And it basically says im most categories the i7 is the way better machine. At half the cost.

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I said that in my summation - but it may not have been clear. I say it is the imac vs the pro - meaning the Mac Pro. That being said my summation is that if the imac is faster than the Mac Pro - by extension the imac is faster than the macbook pro as the macbookpro has mobile graphics and mobile processors, whereas the Mac Pro and Imac are desktop models which in pretty much every case is faster than the mobile version. Feel free to link to any articles showing a benchmark where the current model Macbook Pro is faster than the current Mac Pro. Hopefully that clears up that summation.