Gtx 980m 4gbvram vs Gtx 980m 8gb vram

Yeah well I second that. Benchmarks alone prove that.

 

Great links...thanks btw...interesting read.

 

The games tested are fairly old though. It will change ofcourse in the future but the question is. Will the mobile 980m be still enough then.

 

"Fairly old" is considerable info as opposed to wasting the money for something in the long run will outlast it's counterparts.

In our defense we are looking at Adobe products not games.

In regards to games unless you have to go the route for a " gaming laptop" i'd keep my beast of a machine a desktop. (Personal preference of course)

Good question though I'd like to really look into even more because for games it's enough now but I've seen post back in 2008 claiming it wouldn't be enough and yet here we are....

Now with VR around the corner maybe that's the exception.
I mean how many years we talking to continue under the 4gb spectrum?

 

I shoud mention VR with the 980m is irrelevant as optimus is getting in the way of letting us plug the VR headset directly into the laptop. We would need to run the headunit through the graphics amp, and that point, we are free to choose something with more vram.

For games though as I always mention (and earlier in the thread), you're going to be maxing out the raw power of the card (aka not 60fps) before you're maxing out the vram.

 

Yeah with VR I wasnt taking m specs here. I'm saying in general with VR will 4gb be enough then.

Yeah always going to be maxing out raw power especially any M series.

 

They say that but I am not sure about that to be honest. I actually recently tested DK2 myself on my laptop and it ran fine. The owner of the headset is a game developer also running an optimus laptop.

 

You didn't experience any latency? I think that's the main issue people keep claiming that optimus machines are no good. Or, maybe they ruled out laptops entirely to avoid people with $500 best buy machines complaining that VR sucks. After all desktop 970 equivalent laptops are basically only whovever has a 980m which is a very very small % of the laptop market. Pretty certain the 980m can do the rift just fine unless the SDK somehow blocks the laptops.