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while graphics card names really aren't what they used to be rage TNT monsters Spitfire that kind of good stuff at least the drivers are much improved and instead of having like you know the good video cards and then the like kneecapped video cards that suck you're getting really great performance at pretty much every price point these days but the big question still remains well two big questions really first are you stoked to see part two of personal rig update 2015 with a 3d model of the custom case that I'll be making drop a like if you are and second is a laptop video card good enough for serious gaming or do you need desktop grade graphics let's find out the mastercase 5 by Coolermaster gives you the freedom to truly make your mid-tower pc case your own with a variety of modular parts and accessories click the link in the video description to learn more so this video was inspired by a piece of content that we did recently on the changes in performance of a graphics card over time as drivers mature you can check that out up there and by a brainstorm that I had the other day when we were working on our inventory and I saw the Sager and p90 773 a laptop with a core i7 4790k and I went lightbulb yeah the rational last time we checked out the gtx 980m which we did about 10 months ago when it was released of well you know the cpu doesn't seem to be much of a system bottleneck in gaming these days so it's probably fine that one system is using a desktop chip and the other is using well a laptop one was probably fine but real scientists only change the variable that they want to compare at least when they want halfway decent results so I decided to revisit the testing that was inspired by this slide from Nvidia where I wanted to see what the gap really is between the desktop and a laptop gaming experience with the same class of GPU so this will be a head-to-head battle between the gtx 980 and the 980 m but this time it'll be a fairer fight instead of hamstringing the 980 m with a mobile cpu I took advantage of the fully turbo type we're talking 4.4 gigahertz Devil's Canyon core i7 4790k in it that means both systems are set up identically with 16 gigs of ram Windows 8.1 with all the latest updates a 1080p screen resolution and solid-state storage with the only difference being the graphics cards and the results may shock you we saw a 30 to 40 percent performance delta across the board just like last time ok so yes the results aren't very shocking at all but at least now we know for certain just how far behind the desktop roadmap the mobile one is lagging which leads us to the next come Harrison price while the mobile gtx 980m performs worse than a desktop gtx 980 its pricing puts it above the desktop part at least if ebay is to be believed is hard to actually find these things on a retail shelf and when you combine that with the generally higher costs associated with most of the rest of the components of a laptop i mean the cost of developing an individual motherboard for every custom-made chassis compared to standardized desktop parts is very very high it means that laptop gamers are going to be paying more for less so it makes our apples-to-apples comparison quite difficult because what is an apple really is it the same branded class of hardware again it's the same branded class of hardware or do we you have to look at it from a performance per dollar perspective and then how do you account for things that have a value but would seem ridiculous to try to quantify on a graph like being able to transport your gaming experience around with you very easily so the answer is for now not so different from what it's always been while performance is no longer several generations behind the cost I mean our similarly kitted out desktop costs hundreds of dollars less than our laptop even when you don't factor in the ability to reuse your previous monitor something that many desktop owners will do makes gaming laptops the weapon of choice really only for folks who lack the space for two discrete machines a desktop and a notebook and who are able to afford the convenience tax of mushing them into one but with some of the product rumours circulating now both unsubstantiated like that Nvidia may be releasing a desktop gtx 980 like not m-class mobile GPU and substantiated like all the new products that are coming with intel skylake processors inside it appears as though the future maybe even the near future is going to be very interesting I mean to be clear I don't think that the pricing gap is going away but for gamers it looks like the performance gap will continue to shrink and while I can hear some of you groaning about skylake CPU saying there's nothing special about them from a performance standpoint compared to Broadwell or even has well consider this Intel is bringing more power savings with skylake can you go you performance but maybe it is that's power that can be used for you guessed it better graphics course in those laptops so maybe there's just a shifting if the available resources happening to bring us better mobile gaming but whatever way that goes we'll be covering it for sure and in the meantime I hope you guys enjoyed our look at just how much there is separating desktop and notebook graphics today and on that subject or more accurately thought on that subject at all I guess master OPCON master opcom is the site where basically the community decides like hey guys let's all get together and like buy this thing and then master ops all like ok let's find you know a legitimate non counterfeit source either direct from the manufacturer from a reputable distributor let's get a bunch of those things for you guys and then let's make sure that it's cheaper because a whole bunch of you have committed to buy it at once so the way it works is once something goes up on the mass drop site but more people commit to buy the better the price gets until it reaches a defined limit and the whole 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