Acer's new Gaming laptop (5850 graphics)

Some vantage runs etc would also be nice. Would be nice to have a comparison. Especially if you;re willing to run P mode and then perhaps Extreme as well as we can use it as a comparison :)
 
Ill benchmark whatever, its pretty quiet when gaming, same as the noise when just in windows 7, pretty impressive so far, screens a bit glarey, thats my only major concern with it.
 
kitch9 said:
Any more news on this fella? I'm tempted but the GDDR3 on the GPU is putting me off.
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What do you want to know?

Ive ran a couple of games on it and it runs them pretty decently, the restpad dosent get hot, and its not noisy at all.

I recieved Mass Effect 2 in the post this morning and can play it at full HD resolution at a really playable frame rate, its disapointing it dosent have the ddr5 on the memory, but everything else about the laptop screams quality, if theres any benchies you want me to run ill do it tonight.

Ive decided to keep it.
 
Metalface Mark said:
What do you want to know?

Ive ran a couple of games on it and it runs them pretty decently, the restpad dosent get hot, and its not noisy at all.

I recieved Mass Effect 2 in the post this morning and can play it at full HD resolution at a really playable frame rate, its disapointing it dosent have the ddr5 on the memory, but everything else about the laptop screams quality, if theres any benchies you want me to run ill do it tonight.

Ive decided to keep it.
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I'd be interested in default Vantage scores and can you play games with AA or does the bandwidth start to be problematic?
 
DDR3 shouldn't be a problem aslong as its not a silly short bus width, might lose a little off the top end AA performance, etc. but its not really designed for that anyhow.
 
Hmm if thats 2000MHz DDR (1000MHz bus) then thats only just over 30GB/s bandwidth... which is going to hold it back a lot... if its 2000MHz bus then thats ~60gig which is enough to match the core spec - which despite being 5850 in name isn't hugely faster than the GTS250/4850 desktop parts... maybe at a pinch matching a desktop 5770.
 
That's the problem right there. It's bandwidth is halved over the desktop variants. These 5850s/5870ms are MEANT to be used with GDDR5, but the OEMs have the choice to use either, and Acer have taken the cheaper choice here :(
With GDDR5, its provided with the ~60GB bandwidth, same as the desktop part.
The mobile 5850/70 are basically based off the 57 series core, the 5870m should be GDDR5, but uses 800 shader cores, basically a 5770 with clocks at 5750 levels.
 
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