Graphics card help

[F1fan]

Hi can anyone give me any help.

Looking at getting a laptop, not specifically for playing games but maybe on the odd occasion I will. Which graphics card is better the AMD Radeon R7 M270 4GB DDR3 or the NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 960M 4GB GDDR3.

Thanks

 

[midlife]

Are you thinking about an MSI GE62 Apache or similar ?

Shaun

 

[F1fan]

They were actually Dell Inspirons.

 

[midlife]

Just curious...my eldest who is doing computing and has two gaming rigs uses GeForce graphics cards. The latest cost more than what my Clio is worth!

Shaun

 

[F1fan]

Yeh my main pc has NVIDIA but its very hard to compare AMD and NVIDIA cards it seems.

 

[Andy_R]

The Radeon is built specifically for that laptop, so don't expect any support from AMD (updated drivers etc.). On that basis alone, I would go with the NVIDIA card.

 

[fossyant]

OK let me know what you are spending.

We have an I7 3.4 GHZ laptop with 12 GB of ram with a GT 740 with 2 GB of ram. We also have a desktop I7 4.4 GHZ 4790k with a 4 GB GTX 970 and 16 GB RAM, the desktop is seriously faster.

Check your graphics card specs on the laptop, they are built in.

The AMD stuff you have to watch is't not a built in Radeon an an AMD processor. Intel do their own HD graphics for desktop stuff, but add in a GE Force GT and GTX for games. Whats your budget. Our I7 4700MQ 3.4 and GT 740 GB was £900

 

[F1fan]

Budgets really £800 (ish) I have a desktop I use for playing games anyway, Basically I have a ipad but want something better in my opinion. To get any thing with a decent battery life, backlit keyboard and a decent processor you have to seem to spend 700+. I don't want it specifically to play games, but maybe on the odd occasion. The two cards I mention were from laptops which were roughly the same price and same spec, so want to see which is better.

 

[aferris2]

Have a look at PC Specialist. (http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/). You choose a basic platform then tune the memory/disk/extras to your needs (or budget). Had mine for a year now. Very happy.

 

[midlife]

The lad now builds his own but when he bought ready built it came from Chillblast.

http://www.chillblast.com/Chillblast-Defiant-15-Gaming-Laptop.html

Shaun