The hardware
Windows 10 64bit; 8GB ram; i5-10210U CPU; Intel UHD Graphics 4VRAM; Pixel & Vertex Shader 5.1; CPU SPEED 4.2 GHZ
I would like to play games like GTA; COD or what I like best is NBA2k20 (I know that I can't play on 4k, but I would also like a normal good quality)
I tested the hardware at Can you run it and everything was perfect except my graphics card because I only had 128mb VRAM, but I have now increased it to 4GB and can increase it even further. And only 1GB VRAM was required.
Nevertheless, I would still hope from the community here that they can help me further.
PS. I can play games like Flixbus Simulator or Car Mechanic Simulator without problems and at a high setting.
You can have a look at the benchmark.
Yes, but not sooo good… But theoretically it would be possible
No, you won't be able to play it well with the laptop, since you only have one iGPU, so the VRAM doesn't really matter.
If, in addition to the Intel UHD - iGPU, no dedicated PCIe graphics card from AMD or Nvidia with appropriate performance was installed in your notebook, you will unfortunately only be able to play (more modern) games to a very limited extent.
Since the Intel UHD graphics solutions are unfortunately not particularly powerful, more allocated system memory does not help here either.
The games mentioned will run on an Intel UHD 620/630 due to lack of performance, even in a reduced resolution of 1280 × 720 with low to minimal details, hardly "appealing".
So despite an RTX 2070 in Gta 5 I suffer from bad FPS (40-50), which I would say that your combination tolerates the game much worse.
Would I be able to solve the problem with an external graphics card?
Yes
If your notebook had a fast Thunderbolt 3 connection (40 GBit / s), yes. But that would also cost you a few hundred euro. (Graphics card + housing with separate mainboard & power supply)
With only USB 3.1 Gen.2 (10 Gbit / s) that doesn't really make sense because of the too limited transmission bandwidth.
With you, the CPU could fail if you play in the maximum preset.
Why do you put a succinct "yes" here when you don't know the connection options of the notebook?
With USB 3.1 Gen.2 I would already see an external GTX 1050 in the transfer rate limit.
You can connect an external graphics card to EVERY laptop.
No, you can't. Something like that basically only works for devices with PCIe-based interfaces for external graphics solutions.
(I hope you even understood @ Simon262's initial question)
I have a Ryzen 7 2700X. In most games and programs, it runs more smoothly than smoothly, but GTA 5 is kind of a strange case.
You could try disabling Ryzen multithreading in the BIOS so that the operating system no longer generates virtual cores. Then the threads are guaranteed to only be placed on the 8 physical cores, which can stabilize the FPS.
Otherwise you would be around 50 FPS (99th percentile) on your Ryzen 7-2700X, roughly fitting to the maximum preset.
GTA V can barely use more than 4 cores / 4 threads profitably, and therefore a high clock rate with high computing power per core & MHz is particularly important for the highest possible minimum FPS.
In the absolute CPU limit (720p @ max. Details without AA / AF on a GTX 980Ti-OC), the PCGH test system at that time almost packed the demanding test scene "Chasing Lamar" even with a Core i7-4790K overclocked to 4.5 GHz with 60 minimum FPS.
The Intel Core 4000 series has about the same computing power per core and MHz when gaming as Ryzen 2000. Therefore, optimize the in-game preset by reducing some options such as grass details, a little less LOD, advanced graphics options = off, reflections and shadows = normal, and you should get noticeably more (minimum FPS).
Thanks for the tip!
My pleasure. 😉
