Which would provide better graphics?

Hey guys, I'm working on getting a gaming laptop, and have come to a fork in the road and was hoping for some insight. Which would be better,
- SLI (2x) - NVIDIA® GeForce™ GT 750M (4.0GB total) GDDR5 PCI-Express DX11

--OR--

- NVIDIA® GeForce™ GTX 860M (2.0GB) GDDR5 PCI-Express DX11 w/ Optimus™ Technology

Thank you for your help, it is much appreciated!

 

Similar performance when SLI is working, but always get the single GPU when this is the case, unless the SLI is ridiculously cheap or something. I mean that's the reason I got my Y500 in the first place. At the time $900 couldn't even buy a single GTX-level GPU but it could get 650M SLI which when OC'ed matches up pretty well to the GTX 675MX and 770M.

 

Well, I'm in between the y510p (modified) and a customized sager np7358 at the moment. I love the specs of the Sager, but it is just so freaking ugly... and the y510p is beautiful. I know that aesthetics shouldn't matter that much for a gaming device, but if I'm gonna spend this much on something that I will be using for 4+ years, I'd like it to not look like a dumpster fire.

One of the main perks about the Sager is that it can have a HDD and an mSATA SSD.. That way I can have a 750GB HDD for movies and random things I download, and like a ~120 GB SSD for OS / few games.

Do you know if there is a way to add an SSD to the y510p while keeping the HDD?

 

I would get the Lenovo to be honest.. It looks really nice however I think with the SLI, you will be stuck with only 1 hard drive so best thing would be to get a 256GB/512GB SSD if you really want one... Otherwise, a 7200rpm hard drive... Also can't u get the 755M SLI model? Its slightly better too...

 

For the Y510p you can install this in addition to having an HDD/SDD in the main 2.5" bay: Amazon.com: MyDigitalSSD SC2 Super Cache 2 42mm SATA III 6G M.2 NGFF M2 SSD Solid State Drive (128GB): Computers & Accessories

That's the highest capacity M.2 42mm SSD that I'm currently aware of and it's not that fast. Meanwhile mSATA goes up to 1TB already with the Samsung 840 EVO.

I would get the Sager unless the Lenovo is a lot cheaper. There's really no reason to get the Lenovo other than price as the Sager is better in every way.

The Sager has the new Maxwell GTX 860M which is a very solid and efficient performer that's around the same level as GTX 770M and GT 750M/755M SLI while consuming significantly less power and outputting less heat.

Being that it's a new GTX 800M GPU, it will officially support all the new Nvidia technologies such as ShadowPlay, GameStream, and Battery Boost.

The Sager has a lot better battery life due to Optimus.

It has an optical drive.

It has much better storage expansion options, two 2.5" bays + one mSATA vs. one 2.5" + one M.2 42mm on the Lenovo.

It has better I/O (eSATA, S/PDIF-out, more USB 3.0).

It is a little smaller and lighter.

It has easier accessibility to the internals for maintenance and upgrades.

Performance on the Y510p is not guaranteed since it has a tendency to overheat and you have to put up with the typical multi-GPU issues such as heat, power consumption, scaling, microstutter, and waiting for drivers to create/update SLI profiles for new game releases. Rule of thumb when deciding between single- and multi-GPU with the same performance is to always go with single GPU since you'll have to put up with far fewer issues, and 860M and 750M/755M SLI perform pretty darn close: Computer Games on Laptop Graphic Cards - NotebookCheck.net Tech

I know it's personal preference but I don't think the Sager looks ugly at all, just subdued and professional/businesslike and doesn't scream "GAMING NOTEBOOK!" That's the typical Clevo aesthetic, at the opposite end of the bling spectrum from MSI and Alienware in the world of gaming notebooks.

I happen to own a Y500 which is identical in appearance to the Y510p and I don't think it's that beautiful or better looking than the Sager. You want to see beautiful? Look at the Razer Blade, MSI GS60/70, Aorus X7, and Retina MacBook Pro.

 

If you can wait, the Lenovo Y50 should be dropping pretty soon. This is another super-thin, super-sexy all-metal thin-and-light gaming notebook in the mold of the ones I listed previously but it should pack similar hardware specs for significantly cheaper if Lenovo's previous models are anything to go by. Rumor is the 1080p GTX 860M Maxwell and Haswell i7 model will start at around $1K. It even has the option to upgrade to a 4K screen but that will undoubtedly come at a hefty premium.

 

Hahahahaha!

I have a dumpster fire that just shipped. Sorry for the off topic post, but I literally laughed out loud in the middle of a *very* quiet engineering department.

 

If you get the lenovo they have the 755 sli out now for the same price for a marginal improvement. But id rather get a maxwell 860 over sli for ease of maintenance and such.

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Nvidia's new beta drivers are supposed to be a boon for SLI..

 

...of multiple 780/780 Ti/Titans in desktops, because they are a lot more CPU-limited than notebooks.