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Laptop v desktop gpu

DJMONDY

DJMONDY

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Hi I’m looking at getting a laptop and it’s spec is pretty decent but I haven’t looked at this stuff for quite some time so in need of a little help.

The laptop has a gtx 1050. What’s this equivalent to on a desktop. Is it like a 980ti? Would play vr ok?

It’s also got 8gb ram and a i7.

Many thanks
 
Personally I would be looking at 16gb of ram or upgrading it after if possible and what model of the I7 is it? as in laptops there is dual core versions and I see it all the time at work when people buy a laptop and think a I7 means top end processor.

Unsure what the 1050 equates to in a desktop pc but may need a bit more grunt from a gpu if your going down the vr route.
 
I believe it’s a i7 7700.

It’s a pretty good spec though isn’t it?

It would be ok with fairly modern games.
 
At the moment I’m running a very old gtx 680, i7 3770 with 8gb ram so it’s a hell of an upgrade for me.

Vr is not really a big concern I just thought it might be ok if I did decide to do it.

In all honesty I don’t have many modern games on steam but if I did decide to buy a few I was hoping it would run them at 1080p med-high settings.

And the laptop will only cost me £350.
 
I had a laptop with a 1050, there's either a 2gb or 4gb option - I wouldn't bother though, heading into 2020 the 1050 will struggle with modern games and you can't upgrade the GPU on laptop ( Well you can on some custom high end models ) if you don't mind second hand, you can find a laptop with a 1070 for £700-£800 which crushes a 1050 and is on par with a desktop 980 Ti give or take. if brand new, try and push for a 1660.
 
DJMONDY said:
At the moment I’m running a very old gtx 680, i7 3770 with 8gb ram so it’s a hell of an upgrade for me.

Vr is not really a big concern I just thought it might be ok if I did decide to do it.

In all honesty I don’t have many modern games on steam but if I did decide to buy a few I was hoping it would run them at 1080p med-high settings.

And the laptop will only cost me £350.
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A desktop 680 is about 50% faster than a 1050 mobile, and a mobile 680M is about 20% slower than a 1050 mobile.
 
It’s really slower than my ageing 680? Wow I didn’t expect that. I’m way out of the loop on this stuff.

So in reality it would still struggle with my older games like crisis 3 at 1080p?? High settings?
 
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DJMONDY said:
It’s really slower than my ageing 680? Wow I didn’t expect that. I’m way out of the loop on this stuff.

So in reality it would still struggle with my older games like crisis 3 at 1080p?? High settings?
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Although old, Crysis 3 is still rather taxing if you're using MSAA and ultra settings. High settings 0x AA a 1050 laptop won't be pushing 60+fps. look for minimum of a 1060 - much better than the 1050.
 
None of the "mobile" GPUs in laptops compare to the desktop versions. Not even close performance wise. It's a bit of a con with the naming :P
 
I have a 2070 Super on desktop and a 1050 4gb on my laptop, it's much weaker but I've been surprised at how the 1050 is in games, actually not terrible, I completed 2 runs of RE2 remake on it, though definitely weak to use as your main card.
 
I have a 1060 laptop and it is pretty decent tbh in games at 1080p. I don't think it is too far behind desktop version though it is ofc more thermal limited. There is however a somewhat weaker max q version that I would not recommend. Big jump in price to laptops with better cards too.
 
So it would be fine with older games like half life 2, max Payne 3 etc but would struggle a with more modern stuff.

I think it will be ok for me. I tend to buy most new games on my PS4 these days anyway.
 
Nasher said:
None of the "mobile" GPUs in laptops compare to the desktop versions. Not even close performance wise. It's a bit of a con with the naming :p
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In the Pascal 10 series era, if you didn't get MaxQ, they were pretty close (the major difference was thermal/power limits and how this affected boost), partially due to how power and heat efficient that gen was.
RTX takes a bit more juice/runs a bit hotter so it's moved further apart again this gen, my 2080 MaxP is similar to a 2070 Super/original 2080 once I applied a bit of overclocking, but to my mind that is an acceptable trade off for something that yes gets noisy and warm, but is a portable all in one I just need to carry a power brick for.

MaxQ is a good idea; help bring some performance to thin-and-light, but the problem is they're being used in MOST machines rather than just thin-and-light, and the naming is misleading, and often not even clarified if it's MaxQ until you dig into the specs, which is out and out wrong.

Realistically in NAMING (I am sure in marketing terms its a success) I think MaxQ is a retrograde step, and they should just call them say 2080 and 2080M/2075M. There would be no complaints then as you'd know the M model is a bit slower, whereas the full fat version is similar to desktop.
 
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Just for reference, I'm currently playing Far Cry 5 on a laptop with 960m chipset. Nowhere near max settings, but 1080p and pretty enough that I don't care about the visual bells & whistles I'm "missing".

I have a 1070 in my desktop, but few titles justify turning it on these days. VR is obviously one reason for doing so... if I want to feel queasy again, which I don't. ;-) I really have turned into a lazy, but relaxed, gamer. I blame it on the laptop, which reminded me it's all about the game, not which type of shadows and antialiasing I can thrash my GPU with.
 
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None of the "mobile" GPUs in laptops compare to the desktop versions. Not even close performance wise. It's a bit of a con with the naming :p
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yeah this isn’t true at all.

I have a desktop 1070 and my dad has a mobile 1070. We get very similar results in games.
 
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