I want to get a new laptop soon and wanted to compare the specs of a few models. For example, processor and graphics unit performance. What is the best way to do this? Is simple benchmarking enough or should I pay attention to something else? And how do I find out how well these components play together? Because what good is a thick graphics card if it is capped by the processor? Does anyone have any tips?
Buy a PC because it is easier to assemble good parts
It's nice, but I don't want it. I want a laptop on the go.
As already mentioned here, with a PC you would get about twice the gaming performance for the same price. So for the same performance of a 600 EUR PC you have to invest 1200 EUR for the laptop.
In addition, laptops tend to overheat, especially after 2-3 years of use, and then there's often not much that can be done.
Gaming laptops are almost always limited by the graphics card, not by the CPU.
Any 4-core processor with i5 or Ryzen CPU is therefore sufficient.
8 GB RAM is required, 16 GB would be future-proof
SSD should be present
1920x1080 pixels, if you have high demands with 144 Hz. Normally, however, 60Hz are sufficient.
As graphics card:
GTX 1050 or Vega 8 / Vega11 would be low-level (low details)
GTX 1650, 1060, RX 580 would be middle class (medium to high details)
RTX 2060 - 2080 would be top class (Ultra Details)
Note that these mobile graphics cards are only about 50% faster than the same graphics card for the PC, just because of the poor cooling options.
Okay thank you very much. I will take that into account when buying.
