I got an evaluation sample of MSI GT680R, one of the first gaming laptops with Intel Sandy Bridge processor, thanks to MSI Iberia. The review is already online at my other site about laptops, Gaming on Laptops.
Source: MSI GT680R review
I got an evaluation sample of MSI GT680R, one of the first gaming laptops with Intel Sandy Bridge processor, thanks to MSI Iberia. The review is already online at my other site about laptops, Gaming on Laptops.
Source: MSI GT680R review
As I have mentioned in Gamingonlaptops, MSI is about to launch two gaming laptops with Intel Sandy Bridge processors: the GT680 (with Nvidia GeForce GTX 460M graphics) and GX680 (with ATI Mobility Radeon HD 6870 graphics). As far as I know, these are the first announced laptops with Intel Sandy Bridge processors. They are expected in January 2011.
Source: Portables4Gamers. Via: Gamingonlaptops
I’d like to introduce you my last project: the website about laptops and PC games Gaming on Laptops.
This new site, in English and Spanish, covers the intersection between laptops and PC games: from gaming laptops to anything related to playing PC games on laptops. While it’s not exactly a news site, it’s going to cover the most important events about gaming laptops, in addition to collect useful information and publish articles about game performance on laptops.
I hope you find it useful!
Clerarly the older processors are OK for most games, but I was amazed by the performance improvement of the Core i7 640M processor over the older Pentium SU4100 (even overclocked at 1.7 GHz) in some games, namely Shattered Horizon and Battlefield: Bad Company 2. So if you can afford it and don’t mind losing some battery life (45 min of Internet use), go for the Core i7 option.
Update: Looks like Dell has released a software update that gives an extra 45 minutes of battery life, so the Core i5/i7 models get much closer to the original Pentium/Core 2 Duo version.
The main benchmarking sites have already published results of the Nvidia GeForce GTX 480M (mobile Fermi). In case you missed some of them, here you have a compilation:
Please note that only the last 2 ones are apples-to-apples comparisons, because the older ones are comparing the GTX 480M paired with a desktop processor against the 5870 paired with a notebook processor.
In some games the GTX 480M gets an advantage of 25 or even 30%, but in many games both cards score similar results (maybe within a 10%; the average is a 19% in favor of the GTX 480M at Tom’s Hardware).
You can configure laptops with the Nvidia GeForce GTX 480M at well known assemblers such as Xotic PC, Cizmo and others.
As usual, the guys at Notebookcheck.net are among the first ones providing benchmarks of the lastest mobile graphics cards. They have published a review of the GTX 480M in the Clevo D901F that you can read in depth, but from their results, I have to say I’m not very impressed.
So, is the GeForce GTX 480M faster than the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870? Yes, it is. And probably the GTX 480M is going to perform better with newer drivers and newer games. But at the moment the price premium of the GTX 480M (490 USD over the GTX 285M, that is 75 USD over the 5870 configuring a gaming laptop at Xotic PC) is hard to justify.
Update: the guys at Hot Hardware have benchmarked different games and get different results, more like a 30% in favor of the GTX 480M.
Update 2: more benchmarks at Notebookjournal.de
Update 3: even more benchmarks at Tom’s Hardware and AnandTech.
Second section updated today! The gaming laptop section has just been updated, including options sporting the all-new Nvidia GeForce GTX 480M.
There are interesting things happening at Computex, but I don’t have the time to write about them, only to retweet a few. Follow me on Twitter!
We don’t have any benchmarks yet, but it seems the last mobile graphics card from Nvidia, the Fermi-based Geforce GTX 480M, is going to be the fastest graphics card for laptops in the market (at least for a while). Do you want it in your next gaming laptop? You can pre-order a Sager NP9280 (based on Clevo D900F) at Xotic PC. It’s going to cost you 550 USD MORE than the GTX 285M and ETA is mid-June. Did you expect something cheaper? Really?
Update: do you want it in SLI? So you have to wait for the new monster from Clevo, the X7200!
My last compilation of laptop graphics card benchmarks is too old, so here you have the new version. I’m only covering the last generation of graphics card, and only the most common ones: if the graphics card you are looking for is not here, go to Notebookcheck or use Google (look for the 3DMark Vantage Performance score of the card for a quick comparison). Some remarks:
Feel free to post comments to add your experiences and other relevant information (preferably with links to the sources!).
Are you interested on laptops sold in Spain? Go to the Spanish version.
While the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 is already available in other laptops such as the Asus G73JH or some Clevo models, the Alienware M17x is first with the CrossFireX dual ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870. As usual, let’s wait for some benchmarks, but the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 is the fastest graphics card for laptops, and by a good margin, so the CrossFireX configuration can be awesome…
Update: As Portables4Gamers points out, the dual 5870 option has disappeared!
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