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Which is a better option for gaming on a laptop? 

Laptop gpu or external gpu? 

Use for gaming at home but normal use for school use. 

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Internal laptop GPUs are either an order of magnitude more expensive or an order or magnitude weaker. I support external GPUs.

 

Get a light, nice laptop for school with thunderbolt 3 and an eGPU. 

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depends on what GPU you're comparing. Yes it's more expensive to get faster graphics into a laptop, but desktop cards are bottlenecked by TB3 so they dont get to show all they could do.

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4 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

depends on what GPU you're comparing. Yes it's more expensive to get faster graphics into a laptop, but desktop cards are bottlenecked by TB3 so they dont get to show all they could do.

I was thinking I'd get a light laptop for school work, and buy a external box and a Radeon Vii (freesync laptop) 

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9 minutes ago, JayzSub said:

Which is a better option for gaming on a laptop? 

Laptop gpu or external gpu? 

Use for gaming at home but normal use for school use. 

This depends on your use case, but generally speaking about 30 to 40% of performance is lost when plugging a E-GPU into a laptop, which is better than nothing, but when you add at least $200 to purchase the E GPU dock to the GPU and the fact that you are then limited to laptops with TB 3 I would not call that exactly the ideal scenario, unless you just so happen to have a closet full of GPUs, at the moment esp. in the mid range I would recommend grabbing an internal GPU laptop like either the ASUS FX 504, or the upcoming ASUS ROG Zephyrus G.

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4 minutes ago, JayzSub said:

I was thinking I'd get a light laptop for school work, and buy a external box and a Radeon Vii (freesync laptop) 

Then check out the ASUS ROG Zephyrus G and then install 16GB of RAM

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I was thinking I'd get a light laptop for school work, and buy a external box and a Radeon Vii (freesync laptop) 

external gpu gives you more flexibility.

lap top dies easily and you may only take out ram/ hdd/ wifi card... any superior parts are considered dead..

 

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6 minutes ago, JayzSub said:

I was thinking I'd get a light laptop for school work, and buy a external box and a Radeon Vii (freesync laptop) 

what laptop? watch the CPU too, CPU bottleneck is still a thing

 

and R7 will see heavy TB3 bottleneck. Keep it to RTX 2060 or Vega 56 imo

 

CPU: i7-2600K 4751MHz 1.44V (software) --> 1.47V at the back of the socket Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (BCLK: 103.3MHz) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 RAM: Adata XPG 2x8GB DDR3 (XMP: 2133MHz 10-11-11-30 CR2, custom: 2203MHz 10-11-10-26 CR1 tRFC:230 tREFI:14000) GPU: Asus GTX 1070 Dual (Super Jetstream vbios, +70(2025-2088MHz)/+400(8.8Gbps)) SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 256GB (main boot drive), Transcend SSD370 128GB PSU: Seasonic X-660 80+ Gold Case: Antec P110 Silent, 5 intakes 1 exhaust Monitor: AOC G2460PF 1080p 144Hz (150Hz max w/ DP, 121Hz max w/ HDMI) TN panel Keyboard: Logitech G610 Orion (Cherry MX Blue) with SteelSeries Apex M260 keycaps Mouse: BenQ Zowie FK1

 

Model: HP Omen 17 17-an110ca CPU: i7-8750H (0.125V core & cache, 50mV SA undervolt) GPU: GTX 1060 6GB Mobile (+80/+450, 1650MHz~1750MHz 0.78V~0.85V) RAM: 8+8GB DDR4-2400 18-17-17-39 2T Storage: HP EX920 1TB PCIe x4 M.2 SSD + Crucial MX500 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD, 128GB Toshiba PCIe x2 M.2 SSD (KBG30ZMV128G) gone cooking externally, 1TB Seagate 7200RPM 2.5" HDD (ST1000LM049-2GH172) left outside Monitor: 1080p 126Hz IPS G-sync

 

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SuperPi (v1.5 from Techpowerup, PI value output) 16K: 0.100s 1M: 8.255s 32M: 7m 45.93s

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8 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

what laptop? watch the CPU too, CPU bottleneck is still a thing

 

and R7 will see heavy TB3 bottleneck. Keep it to RTX 2060 or Vega 56 imo

 

Acer swift 3 ryzen r72700u cpu

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9 hours ago, JayzSub said:

Acer swift 3 ryzen r72700u cpu

there's no thunderbolt 3, and 2700U does induce CPU bottleneck even on TB3 laptops (though you wont find Ryzen laptops with TB support, that's Intel's tech) with a Radeon 7

CPU: i7-2600K 4751MHz 1.44V (software) --> 1.47V at the back of the socket Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (BCLK: 103.3MHz) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 RAM: Adata XPG 2x8GB DDR3 (XMP: 2133MHz 10-11-11-30 CR2, custom: 2203MHz 10-11-10-26 CR1 tRFC:230 tREFI:14000) GPU: Asus GTX 1070 Dual (Super Jetstream vbios, +70(2025-2088MHz)/+400(8.8Gbps)) SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 256GB (main boot drive), Transcend SSD370 128GB PSU: Seasonic X-660 80+ Gold Case: Antec P110 Silent, 5 intakes 1 exhaust Monitor: AOC G2460PF 1080p 144Hz (150Hz max w/ DP, 121Hz max w/ HDMI) TN panel Keyboard: Logitech G610 Orion (Cherry MX Blue) with SteelSeries Apex M260 keycaps Mouse: BenQ Zowie FK1

 

Model: HP Omen 17 17-an110ca CPU: i7-8750H (0.125V core & cache, 50mV SA undervolt) GPU: GTX 1060 6GB Mobile (+80/+450, 1650MHz~1750MHz 0.78V~0.85V) RAM: 8+8GB DDR4-2400 18-17-17-39 2T Storage: HP EX920 1TB PCIe x4 M.2 SSD + Crucial MX500 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD, 128GB Toshiba PCIe x2 M.2 SSD (KBG30ZMV128G) gone cooking externally, 1TB Seagate 7200RPM 2.5" HDD (ST1000LM049-2GH172) left outside Monitor: 1080p 126Hz IPS G-sync

 

Desktop benching:

Cinebench R15 Single thread:168 Multi-thread: 833 

SuperPi (v1.5 from Techpowerup, PI value output) 16K: 0.100s 1M: 8.255s 32M: 7m 45.93s

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2 hours ago, Jurrunio said:

there's no thunderbolt 3, and 2700U does induce CPU bottleneck even on TB3 laptops (though you wont find Ryzen laptops with TB support, that's Intel's tech) with a Radeon 7

Great -.-

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