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Anonymous
10 years ago

Re: Compare Graphic Cards

That 950 is still "only" the bottom rank in gaming cards, and therefore below the Battlefront requirement, and also a year or year and a half down the road, will already be going totally obsolete!  The GTX 970m is much more economical over the next couple of years to three! 

http://gpuboss.com/gpus/GeForce-GTX-950M-vs-GeForce-GTX-660

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    Anonymous
    10 years ago

    First of all, I would like to thank you for your responds and the fact that you have answered   most of my queries!

    Will the GTX 950m be able to run Star Wars: Battlefront in the medium settings at least?

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    Anonymous
    10 years ago

    It cannot do so unless you choose a very coarse screen resolution.  The bare minimum card, a DESKTOP version of the GTX 660, cannot run SW: BF at high resolution and medium graphics. 

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    Anonymous
    10 years ago

    I see :/

    I have recently seen two gaming laptops and I would like to ask your opinion regarding which one is better for gaming (and especially for Star Wars :Battlefront)

    The specs of the first one is:

    Intel Core i7-4720HQ 2.60 GHz 6 MB
    8 GB - DDR3
    AMD Radeon R9 M265X 2 GB

    Blu-ray Super-Multi Drive

    The second's specs are:

    Intel Core i7-6700HQ 2.6 GHz  cache 6 MB
    RAM 8 GB - DDR3
    DVD SuperMulti Drive
    NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M 4 GB

    The price is pretty much the same.Which one do you think is more capable of running Star Wars:Battlefront at medium settings?

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    Anonymous
    10 years ago

    Not being familiar with the Radeon R7 265, I'll have to do what you could have done already, run GPU Boss comparisons.  I'll start with the R7 265 (desktop) vs the minimum Radeon (desktop) card, a desktop HD 7850 card, and return to edit my reply.   .. and .. I do not have "good" news. 

    http://gpuboss.com/gpus/Radeon-R7-265-vs-Radeon-HD-7850  

    http://gpuboss.com/gpus/Radeon-R7-265-vs-GeForce-GTX-660  

    http://gpuboss.com/gpus/Radeon-R7-265-vs-GeForce-GTX-950M

    The desktop version would only be roughly equal to the minimum cards, which means LOW graphics with normal high resolution for a better card than the laptop version.  Deduct anywhere between 15% and 25% of the performance, because laptop makers are so overly conscious of battery life that they really cripple graphics a lot, and you are not looking at a laptop equal to a "Medium" graphics capability. 

    I'll repeat a common mantra: laptops are an ecological wasteland product, not "green" in any way, shape, or form.  They are uneconomical, have terrible keyboards, and cannot be properly upgraded when they promptly go obsolete.  They must be constantly replaced, and recovering either the precious metals or the rare earths they contain isn't possible with a profit. 

    A stationary computer need not take up large amounts of space in a crowded room.  You can equip a mid-tower with gaming components for 50 to 60 percent of the cost of a gaming class laptop, and upgrade it a couple of times, then when it's six to eight years old, it CAN be a profitable option to recover at least the gold plating off its various connectors. 

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    Anonymous
    10 years ago

    The key thing to remember is that laptops in general are garbage when it's time to play any high-intensity 3D games, period.  They weren't made for it, unless SAGER made them. 

    The only laptop GPU I recognized as being that type in those several GPU Boss comparisons that I looked at was the Geforce Optimus, and those suffer from awful drivers, and unreliable, undependable design engineering. 

    http://www.sagernotebook.com/Gaming-Notebook-NP9778-S.html

    When you bring me a high quality gaming-for-real  laptop in the same class as a Sager, it will have a high performance GPU, not one of these "wannabe" but-failed the cut options you have been asking about. 

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