7970m vs. 980m

i think it can still run it fairly higher than you think....well at least with the settings to be happy with. but personally for me id just wait it out as those said before and get a newer card. for it was easy with an 8750m paired with a dual core U cpu. but if i had the 7970m id be in no rush. at least not till waiting to see whats new with amd with the hbm gpus.

 

Yeah I am hoping it'll run it well, however it took me 2 computers to be able to run GTA 4 as it was meant to be (hp dv5 with a 9600mgt and the the r3 with a 6990m)

I already have it preordered, and hopefully it won't require a upgrade to run it.

 

Ah so that's why you changed your title from Notebook Prophet to Notebook Profit

 

I think there seems to be some confusion with the original posters decision and new needs or maybe I'm confused ha... totally possible too!

Poster seems to want a nice desktop that will stream through Steam to a laptop....

He budgeted $2k to the desktop, no problem at all, will be plenty powerful to play anything.

He then budgeted $800 to a laptop to stream games through Steam from above desktop, and he and others mentioned dedicated GPU machines for this task.... why is this required?

I've streamed all the latest Steam games from my laptops (780m, 860m, and currently 970m) to my Surface Pro tablets with ULV dual core CPU and integrated Intel igpu without issue. I've never actually seen a hardware recommendation for streaming, but I was always under the impression the machine running the game did all the work, and the device it was streamed to simply displayed the image. Just today for example, I played Dying Light on my Surface Pro tablet seamlessly in 1080p while it was streamed from my GS60 970m laptop perfectly, looked great, no lag, totally enjoyable... same settings I play when actually playing on the laptop.

Only issues I've run into with streaming is network related... get a good router, make sure the desktop (or in my case laptop) that runs and streams the game is hardwired, and then make sure the receiving tablet or laptop has a good wireless connection.

Just my thoughts, maybe I've misunderstood what the original poster is actually wanting. If I was in you shoes with what you say you want, build a nice desktop and then pick up a nice slim laptop with the screen size of your liking.

 

@be77solo that's what I was saying, anyone suggesting an 860M for the client device is total overkill. Any modern ULV with an iGPU which supports hardware decode is more than adequate. Rule of thumb is if the device can playback 1080p60 YouTube video without dropping frames, it has enough power to do the same in Steam In-Home Streaming. However, OP wants a nice 17" 1080p screen (IPS maybe?) which is gonna be the most cost prohibitive part.

 

Word of warning though: when measuring 1080p60 YouTube performance do not use Chrome or Firefox, as their GPU acceleration is broken compared to Internet Explorer 11 (shocking, I know). Chrome/Firefox constantly stutter with 1080p60 videos on YouTube - not so with Internet Explorer 11, which plays them as smooth as butter.

 

Good point, totally forgot about that.

 

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Yeah I read that but I had a tough time with GTA4 (with the hardware I had) and feel that the coding in their games requires their maximum recommendations to be reflective of the bare minimum required to eke out some playability

I really want to just hang on to this laptop as it is cuz I can't afford the upgrade on the gpu and till I can get a gaming laptop that does 6+ hours USABLE with great cooling and weighing under 3kg and looks like a MBP with a bezel from the new XPS13

Dream I can

 

Lol my laptop I had 9600m gt. Well it was the quadro fx 770m and it performed the same. It was tough to run but I got around 27fps on the benchmark built in on medium graphics. Never really got into that cos I still had my Xbox 360 then but I skipped consoles this time round and gta v WILL be properly ported unlike 4. I have no doubts.


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Well...here's hoping

 

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GTA V runs on same engine as Max Payne. I found difference between medium and high were more about using hardware features to tax the system, didn't impact visuals that much, just resources.

Also remember GTA V is running 60 fps on console and looks great. I wouldn't worry.

 

GTA is only running 30fps on the consoles.

 

yeah should do. although i have a 970m which is more than enough i still hope it is more than easy to run it and not "just" because spent overally £1500 on my sety up.

 

This depends on the laptop in question. If you're going from a Clevo or some other budget brand, that's what you should do - sell the old one, buy a new one.

But if you have a serious laptop (higher-end Clevos or Alienware) the build quality (and cost) is such that upgrading the GPU IS worth it. The net cost (after selling your old card) of the GPU upgrade will be $400-$500 dollars. If you sell your old laptop and buy a new one, the GPU/CPU might be newer/better, but everything else will be worse, including build quality.

So in short, it depends what laptop you're upgrading from. Because if you're comparing apples-to-apples, you'd need to compare upgrading to a machine of equal quality.