Laptop GPUs for playing

[Kapisketo]

Hello, I going to gift a laptop this christmas to my sister. She wants to play FFRR so... I don't know what GPU it should have. I know about desktops but no idea about GPUs in laptops, anyone of you has a laptop with GTX760M, 765M or 770M? How do they work? If you have any other lower GPU, it works fine?

[Demonchld]

I play on a GT745M 2GB and it plays fine on High Laptop setting

[Kapisketo]

at 1920x1080 or 1280x720?

[Raist]

It will help a LOT if you can go shop around at actual stores so you can look at the system properties page (right-click the computer icon and select properties). If you can get at the breakdown of the Windows Experience Index numbers (on that System Properties page, there should be a hyperlink next to the score that breaks it down by subsystem), look for something that rates at least above 7 on the Gaming Graphics score. Memory score can be important as well--want that to be at LEAST as high as the Gaming Graphics as well. Note, this is NOT the single score you see when you pull up the System Properties--that is the score of the weakest subsystem from the test, often the hard drive. These are in the breakdown of each subsystem's score when you click the hyperlink next to that single score.

For a general reference of how the scores may play out, my Asus G75VX laptop scores 8.1 on Memory (8GB DDR3-1600 System memory) and 7.3 (NV GTX670MX with 3GB GDDR5 memory) on Win8.0. At 1920/1080 full screen, it keeps frames pretty much 30+ most the time with the Laptop profile and Cascading and all other shadows off. It can dip down periodically into the upper 20's in HEAVY fates, but otherwise it's 30+ even with a lot of players, up to 60+ in unpopulated areas.

[Furlamseere]

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