Thinking of going laptop and need advice

[SpeedZealot369]

Hey forum so I have been wanting for awhile to get a laptop for some portability. The main issue is as I'm sure everyone is familiar with is sacrificing some gaming horsepower. I currently have a i7 3.4 ghz in my pc, along with a single radeon 5850.

I am looking at a laptop that has a

Intel® Core™ i7-2630QM, 6MB L3 Cache, 2.0-2.9GHz

along with a

NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 485M 2GB GDDR5

not to shabby at all but my main concern is how much gaming power if at all am i going to lose out on? I'm not sure how powerful that gpu is compared to mine. the cpu is definitly slower even though it is second gen i7.

Thanks

 

[StrangerGuy]

I'm pretty sure you got a laptop that is:

1. Not really portable
2. Crap to mediocre LCD compared to a cheap desktop IPS
3. Pretty expensive
4. Because of 1, 2 and 3, you probably won't move it a lot, negating the actual benefit of a laptop
5. All this for a mobile GPU for with the same performance on par with a desktop GTX 460 1GB

It is worth it? You be the judge.

 

[Zen0]

Hey forum so I have been wanting for awhile to get a laptop for some portability. The main issue is as I'm sure everyone is familiar with is sacrificing some gaming horsepower. I currently have a i7 3.4 ghz in my pc, along with a single radeon 5850.

I am looking at a laptop that has a

Intel® Core™ i7-2630QM, 6MB L3 Cache, 2.0-2.9GHz

along with a

NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 485M 2GB GDDR5

not to shabby at all but my main concern is how much gaming power if at all am i going to lose out on? I'm not sure how powerful that gpu is compared to mine. the cpu is definitly slower even though it is second gen i7.

Thanks

The high end mobile GPUs are about 1/2 as fast as a similar high end Desktop GPU. Comparing top to top, the discrepancies get higher... around 4x+ the difference.

A Laptop can provide a similar gaming experience as a high end Desktop, but the difference will be the resolution, Anti-aliasing, effects, shadows etc that must be turned down immensely.

 

[Arkadrel]

how much gaming power if at all am i going to lose out on?

Probably around ~15-20% on the GPU performance.

On CPU you ll go from 3.4ghz -> 2.0ghz which will hurt performance.
How much? No idea, depends on how cpu intensive the game your playing is.

I'm pretty sure you got a laptop that is:

1. Not really portable
2. Crap to mediocre LCD compared to a cheap desktop IPS
3. Pretty expensive
4. Because of 1, 2 and 3, you probably won't move it a lot, negating the actual benefit of a laptop
5. All this for a mobile GPU for with the same performance on par with a desktop GTX 460 1GB

It is worth it? You be the judge.

^ Above, agreed with.

High end gameing laptops usually end up weighing half a ton, with crappy battery life. So they just end up sitting in one place, like a desktop does, and they usually cost ~3x as much for simular performance (as a normal desktop pc).

 

[GodisanAtheist]

Any laptop with the specs you've listed is going to be a beast and not very portable. You're looking at more of a desktop replacement, more than you are a laptop.

If you're SERIOUSLY interested in mobility, you should look around the 800 dollar price point and find something with a HD5670, HD6550 or a GTX 450m/460m and call it a day. Weaker GPUs but those laptops will have a fairly low 720p resolution and will perform quite nicely regardless at medium settings.

That is what I would aim for if you already have a capable gaming machine at home and are just looking for a laptop that can also game in a pinch.