Hey, how's it going guys? This is Dave2D.
And this is a video on which laptop GPU
to buy. Now, if you have an unlimited budget
you can drop, like, 3 or 4 or even 5 thousand
dollars on a gaming laptop with
4K gaming capabilities. It's
awesome, but if you're like most people,
you have a limited budget and you're trying to choose between some
cheaper gaming options. This video
is for you. So, these are the
laptop graphics chips we're gonna look at. And if you
care about specs, you can pause the screen and check
them out. Now there is a bit of confusion to
the naming system that Nvidia gave
this generation of laptop graphics chip.
So, last generation there was a
GTX 960M and the
970M. Those were 50 Watt and
80 Watt TDP video cards. So,
the wattage number refers to the amount of
thermal energy that you need to dissipate
from those chips. These line up with
the GTX 1050 and the GTX
1060 chips. These are also
50 Watt and 80 Watt chips.
It's a little confusing so sometimes in the comments
I'll see people asking "why are you comparing
a 960M with a 1050?
It should be comparing a 960M with a
1060." But that's just not the
case. It's 960M
with a 1050, that's just the way that Nvidia made it
this year. And the reason why you have to compare chips
by wattage, is because the higher
wattage, the more cooling you need to build
into the laptop to remove it. You can't
put an 80 Watt graphics chip into
a laptop designed to cool a 50 Watt chip
and then you can't put a 50 Watt chip
into a laptop design to cool a 35
Watt chip, it just doesn't work.
Okay, let's talk about graphical performance.
If we look into a benchmark program like
Fire Strike, so Fire Strike 1.1, and we
assume that the 960M is
like the base score.
The GTX 1050 is around
25% better, the 970M
is around 70% better,
the 1050ti is around
75% better, and the GTX 1060 is
way better, it's like 2 and a half times.
So these scores don't always translate
to the same percentage increase in gaming
frame rates, but they're usually close.
Starting with some light weight games,
like Dota 2, at 1080p on
ultra settings. I haven't played this game in
forever. And it already ran nicely on the 960M,
but if you are after better visual quality
or higher frame rates, these new cards are
nice. Next up is
Overwatch. Still a relatively light weight
game. It's playable on any of these cards
In fact, most of my overwatch career has been
spent on a GTX 960M,
but on the newer cards you can get some significantly
better frame rates or image quality.
Doom, like the new Doom,
is a step-up in hardware requirements and
on the 960M, it's really not
playable on high settings, you'll need to
drop resolution or graphics quality
but on the 1050ti you can get some really
smooth frame rates on high graphics quality
Battlefield 1 is a bit more demanding,
especially with the multiplayer maps.
Here, we're actually starting to see a drop off in
frame rates. Even on the 1050ti
we can't quite hit 60 frames
per second on high settings. You need to
play on the GTX 1060 to break
60 frames per second on high graphics
Rise of the Tomb Raider pushes all these chips
pretty hard. The GTX 1060
will break 60 frames per second on high settings,
but even then, it is getting close. It'll dip
below 60 pretty often, and I would say that
this game is kinda where the GTX 1050ti
reaches its limits for really good image
quality at 1080p
And then lastly, Witcher 3, which I'm sure you
guys are sick of seeing, but it is a very well
optimized game and uses your hardware .
effectively. It's a beast of a game
and it's not an enjoyable experience unless you have some
pretty good hardware. And in this case the
lower end cards just dont cut it.
If VR is your thing, the only
card that can comfortably handle VR and is
officially VR ready is the laptop
GTX 1060. The 1050ti is kinda capable.
I've tested it on some lighter games without it
dropping too many frames, but it's not ideal
In regards to video editing, there's a
slight improvement in render times as you get better
GPU's, but it's not huge.
The performance gains are more pronounced with
higher rez footage, like with the 5K Scarlet footage.
I'm not sure why, it might be VRAM
related, but in general, video editing
performance in Adobe is much more CPU
dependent. The last thing I wanna talk
about is pricing, and for a lot of people
this is the most important factor. A laptop
with a GTX 960M starts at around
$700. A laptop
with a 1050 will start at around $800.
A 970M device tends to be
$1000 or more.
A laptop with a 1050ti
will be around 900. And a laptop
with a GTX 1060 starts at around
$1300 dollars. So, I did the math...
Okay, it's pretty obvious. The one with the best value
is the GTX 1050ti.
and it's not that the other ones are a bad value
it's just that for current titles playing at
1080p resolution with a 60Hz
screen, which is like your standard gaming laptop
screen, you're getting the best value there
and my guess is that you're gonna get 2 maybe even
3 years of gaming at really good
frame rates, like 60 frames per second or higher.
With really good image quality and
at that price it just..it's a really good
deal. It's kinda crazy you're getting this kind
of image quality with this kind of frame
rates and this kind of price. It's
pretty cool. Now there's one last thing! I'm giving away
2 laptop, the first is the Dell
Inspiron 7567. This has the
GTX 1050ti
with the i5. And the
second laptop I'm giving away, this one's a little
better, the MSI GS63.
This has a GTX 1060.
I've done reviews for both of them
I'll like the videos down below
To win them, I mean you should be
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gonna be a YouTube contest, gonna run it on my other
social media. Probably on Twitter
maybe instagram, maybe one on each. I haven't
decided yet, but when this video
goes live, maybe wait like 2 or
3 days and you'll see a detailed post on
my social media accounts as to how to win them.
So if you're interested in winning one or
yeah you can only win one you can't win both.
If you're interested in winning one of these
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