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    The future of laptop gaming?

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by strider3871, Mar 16, 2012.

  1. strider3871

    strider3871 Notebook Guru

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    I fail to understand Nvidia's and Apple's decision for not scrapping the entire laptop GPU products and replace them with powerful GPU such as Tegra 3 and A5 (the one in ipad 3).

    If those chips can "really" deliver console-quality gaming (in which theoretically they should be able to run games such as Crysis 2 and Skyrim) then what is the point of having regular GPUs (e.g.: 5xxm GTX, etc) which constantly overheat and require good copper heatsink and fan?

    Wouldn't it be great to have on your laptop a Tegra or A5 GPU that produce near zero heat and performance-wise the same as console gaming? If the technology exist already, what's up with the hold back?
     
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  2. TheBluePill

    TheBluePill Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Completely different animals.

    Tegra 3 and the A5 are potent only for their target devices, tablets. They are not capable of running really graphically intensive 3D applications.

    Even a low end GPU from AMD or NVIDIA has significantly more horesepower than the Tegra or A5. The Tegra 3 has 12 Shaders, compared to 48 in just the 520M
     
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  3. ExMM

    ExMM Notebook Evangelist

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    Yup, people thinks that because you are running a quad-core chip like the snapdragon S4 or the Tegra 3 inside your mobile device, it should be the same power as the desktop/laptops computers CPU/GPU.

    Is definitely NOT the case, at least not yet.
     
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  4. moviemarketing

    moviemarketing Milk Drinker

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    Many crappy $300-400 budget laptops can already run games at console resolution (1280x720) just fine.

    I don't think the performance of ancient console hardware is anything laptop manufacturers should be shooting for.

    I game on a laptop with a metal case that gets extremely hot, but I'm quite happy to put up with it in order to have a system that can run games at 1080p. I use a mouse and keypad, so I never touch the palmrest when gaming.
     
    moviemarketing, Mar 16, 2012
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