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GAMING NOTEBOOKS - Are they worth it?

2015-07-20
I don't usually show off my PC cases but when I do the finance baby room for activities modularity strip it down all you want yeah no problem with the heat either know what I mean looking for an intimate moment the finance is something sexy hello everyone I'm Dimitri with Harbor Canucks and welcome to another video notebooks today are getting quieter they're getting cooler they're getting more powerful and they're also getting slimmer so very thin machines on the market right now may be very impressive but this is possible thanks to the hardware advancement but also the new cooling systems that are being integrated inside these machines and if you're in the market for a gaming machine gaming notebook then you stumbled upon the right video because they will be comparing invidious Maxwell 900m serious GPUs against each other and versus the desktop counterparts so you get a better idea of how they perform and the general performance sphere and also give us a like if you'd want us to compare them to the radio on mobile GPUs in the future and we'll make sure to deliver and so in this comparison we got quite the range starting with a razor blade Pro that has a gtx 960m with 4 gigabytes of vram moving up a bit the gigabyte p35 kv-3 with a gtx 960 5 m that has 4 gigabytes of vram as well then the eurocom m5 pro with a gtx 970m a 3 gig card on our model and finally top the line asus g7 51 the latest model with g-sync and has a beastly gtx 980m with 4 gigabytes of video memory and i also like to point out that the cpu on all these notebooks is the same the core i7 4720 HQ @ 2.6 gigahertz with turbo up to 3.6 gigahertz the games were installed on the 7200 rpm disc and the only difference between these machines is the system memory with 24 gigabytes on the Asus model 8 gigabytes on the eurocom and the gigabyte machine with options to upgrade and 16 gigabytes of the razorblade pro and so here's the full spec sheet comparing all these GPUs now this table tells us only part of the story but based on the coup de coeur count you can kind of tell how these will perform in games in comparison to each other and first firing up 3dmark to establish sort of a base for synthetic benchmarks and the difference between the graphic score is fairly significant and I wanted to see how the mobile GPU compares to the desktop lineup just so you can get an idea of what we're dealing with here and the desktop cards are shown in orange for easier distinction and you can see here the 980m lends itself wall between the gtx 970 and the 960 and having that type of power on the notebook is still pretty impressive and the 970m is just below the gtx 960 which I would say is still totally playable for the notebook standard now let's jump into some games and while I was testing everything with high settings just to see how much performance could be squeezed out the interesting thing to notice are the performance gains that you get once going one level higher through the lineup and while the lower end models the 960 m and the 965 M seem to struggle a little bit to keep up with playable frame rates you have to remember invidious GeForce experience that optimizes in-game settings for playable framerate so the 960 M is more of a low to medium GPU the 965 M is a tier higher for medium settings the 970 m is your high settings GPU and the 980 m would allow you to just max out your game with a few settings tweaked for constant 60 + FPS now for temperature comparison this is not exactly fair just because each of these machines utilize different cooling system but from our testing there isn't a particular pattern this just highlights though that the performance of our 960 m inside the razor blade Pro could have been hindered by the high low temperatures while the incredibly silent and efficient cooling on the Asus model allowed us to squeeze all that available power out of the 980 m and I think the Europe come when the gigabyte machines offer sort of a nice balance of incredibly thin notebooks with appropriate but slightly louder cooling and so what we can take away from this is the future of mobile gaming looks really promising and already satisfactory the performance of the 9 and the 970m is really on par with the desktop counterparts like the 960 and higher and that is very impressive considering you can literally have all that power in your backpack as you're gaming without any compromises now don't forget that achieving satisfactory gaming experience on a notebook is a balancing act between setting the right settings for the hardware it's not all about just maxing out the settings and seeing how things perform and I hope that this limited - in the video mobile GPU showdown has been helpful if you're in the market for a mobile gaming machine now you sort of have the base comparison on which GPU performs at what level compared to the desktop counterparts and compared to between each other as well and give us a like if you'd want to see us bring in some Radeon notebooks and compare that to them have two maxwell GPUs and see how they perform and seeing what the temperatures like and etc so if you enjoy this content give us a like and thank you so much for watching make sure to subscribe because we'll have a lot more cool content coming up in the future and we'll see you in the next one almost finished
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