while graphics card names really aren't what they used to be rage tnt monster
spitfire that kind of good stuff at least the
drivers are much improved and instead of having like you know the good video
cards and then the like kneecapped video cards that suck you're getting really
great performance at pretty much every price point these days but the big
question still remains well two big questions really first are you stoked to
see part two of personal rig update 2015
with a 3d model of the custom case that i'll be making drop a like if you are
and second is a laptop video card good
enough for serious gaming or do you need desktop grade graphics let's find out
the master case 5 by coolermaster gives you the freedom to truly make your
mid-tower pc case your own with a variety of modular parts and accessories
click the link in the video description to learn more so this video was inspired
by a piece of content that we did recently on the changes in performance
of a graphics card over time as drivers mature you can check that out up there
and by a brainstorm that i had the other day when we were working on our
inventory and i saw the sager np 9773 a
laptop with a core i7 4790k in it and i
went light bulb yeah the rationale last time we checked
out the gtx 980m which we did about 10 months ago when it was released of well
you know the CPU doesn't seem to be much of a system bottleneck in gaming these
days so it's probably fine that one system is using a desktop chip and the
other is using well a laptop one was probably fine but real scientists
only change the variable that they want to compare at least when they want
halfway decent results so i decided to revisit the testing that was inspired by
this slide from NVIDIA where i wanted to see what the gap really is between the
desktop and laptop gaming experience with the same class of GPU so this will
be a head-to-head battle between the gtx 980 and the 980m but this time it'll be
a fairer fight instead of hamstringing
the 980m with a mobile CPU i took
advantage of the fully turboed up we're talking 4.4 gigahertz devil's canyon
core i7 4790k in it that means both
systems are set up identically with 16
gigs of RAM Windows 8.1 with all the latest updates a 1080p screen resolution
and solid-state storage with the only difference being the graphics cards and
the results may shock you we saw a 30 to
40 performance delta across the board
just like last time okay so yes the results aren't very shocking at all but
at least now we know for certain just how far behind the desktop roadmap
the mobile one is lagging which leads us to the next comparison price while the
mobile gtx 980m performs worse than a desktop gtx 980 its pricing puts it
above the desktop part at least if ebay
is to be believed it's hard to actually find these things on a retail shelf and
when you combine that with the generally higher costs associated with most of the
rest of the components of a laptop i mean the cost of developing an
individual motherboard for every custom-made chassis compared to standardized desktop parts is very very
high it means that laptop gamers are going to be paying more for less so it
makes our apples to apples comparison quite difficult because
what is an apple really is it the same
branded class of hardware against the same branded class of hardware or do we
have to look at it from a performance per dollar perspective and then how do
you account for things that have a value
but would seem ridiculous to try to quantify on a graph like being able to
transport your gaming experience around with you very easily so
the answer is for now not so different from what it's always
been while performance is no longer several generations behind the cost i
mean our similarly kitted out desktop costs hundreds of dollars less than our
laptop even when you don't factor in the ability to reuse your previous monitor
something that many desktop owners will do makes gaming laptops the weapon of
choice really only for folks who lack the space
for two discrete machines a desktop and a notebook and who are able to afford
the convenience tax of mushing them into one but with some of the product rumors
circulating now both unsubstantiated like that NVIDIA may be releasing a
desktop gtx 980 like not m class mobile
GPU and substantiated like all the new products that are coming with Intel
skylake processors inside it appears as though the future maybe even the near
future is going to be very interesting i mean to be clear i don't
think that the pricing gap is going away but for gamers it looks like the
performance gap will continue to shrink
and while i can hear some of you groaning about skylake mobile CPU saying
there's nothing special about them from a performance standpoint compared to
broadwell or even haswell consider this
Intel is bringing more power savings
with skylake can you go to start performance but maybe it is
that's power that can be used for you guessed it better graphics course in
those laptops so maybe there's just a shifting of the available resources
happening to bring us better mobile gaming
but whatever way that goes we'll be covering it for sure and in the meantime
i hope you guys enjoyed our look at just how much there is separating desktop and
notebook graphics today and on that subject or more accurately
not on that subject at all i guess massdrop.com massdrop.com is the site
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