Are GT750M and Radeon 8850M future-proof?

I want to buy a new laptop and theses are the best mobile GPUs that I can afford. Do you think I would be able to play games with acceptable frame rates at medium details for the next 3-4 years?

 

There is not such a thing as "futureproof", especially when it comes to midrange GPU's. Noone knows what will happen in 3-4 years so just a get a best you can now and enjoy your games, now.

 

You should go with the new 850M or 860M maxwell Nvidia (which far the most efficient today), otherwise from the two I would choose the Radeon 8850M. It can be overclocked to the 8870M level and in the near future will receive Mantle and DirectX 12 support. It is built to the GCN architecture which same what is working in the new consoles, therefore you can expect better optimized games in the following 3-5 years.

 

Future-proof mostly depends on the games you want to play. I mostly just play Dota 2 now, so pretty much any GPU is future-proof. If you play the latest and greatest first person shooters, nothing is future-proof.

 

Short Answer : No.

Longer answer - maybe. Those are low-to-mid cards. They should be able to handle most games at low-to-med settings at 1080p. More demanding games will probably need to run at 720p. If you're comfortable with overclocking or modding your vBIOS, you may be able to stretch it a bit more. If you define acceptable framerates as never below 60fps, youre probably out of luck. If you are ok with running games at 720p with low settings, it should last you a few years.

 

Ain't no such thing as futureproof.

 

So you mean upcoming games might be better optimized for AMD than Nvidia cards? Mantle and DX12 do sound promising...hope they help games run faster on mid-range systems!

 

there are games already out that wont run maxed or even high on the 750m or 8850m, so it will only get more and more demanding. My desktop with dual 780ti's is not even futureproof to me, no way it will last me 3 to 4 years with nvidia surround and 144hz monitors. Get the best you can today and enjoy it today, thats all you can do.

 

Yes normally games made for consoles first, than they land to PCs. And because the consoles hardware (an AMD GCN APU) fixed for the following many years, you probably be able to play games in decent quality near 1366x with 8850M for many years as well.

 

Except you're forgetting that PS4 has basically a 7970M, with console optimizations on top of that...

 

And I made the consequences, if PS4 play games 900p and 1080p, than 8850M will do in 1366x... The one important thing what I've forget, the 8850M has superior efficiency over 750M which an another great plus point. A recent test with 8850M.

 

Maybe this a stupid question but what do you mean by superior efficiency?

 

more FPS/Watt

 

Except NBC's numbers are flawed because they used the GT 750M DDR3. If you look at the GT 755M GDDR5 which is not much faster than the 750M GDDR5 you'd see that it beats 8870M in most cases.

 

That depends on clock speeds, the better Radeon 8870M in Samsung Series 7 laptops level with 765M.

 

I wonder how the performance of the 750m compares with the 740m? Is there a big difference with 720p, 900p or 1366x768 gaming?