The Cheapest Gaming Laptop with 12GB VRAM! - 6800M Revisit 2 Years Later
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AMD’s RX 6800M is the cheapest laptop GPU with 12GB of VRAM, but how does it perform in 2023? We’ve tested it in 24 games at 4K, 1440p and 1080p resolutions to find out!
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Timestamps:
0:00 A Cheaper 12GB VRAM Laptop
0:33 Video Sponsor - Newegg’s FantasTech Sale
1:04 Laptop Specs & Price
1:38 24 Games Tested (4K, 1440p & 1080p)
1:54 An Example Where 12GB VRAM Wins - Far Cry 6
3:09 Is RX 6800M 4K Capable?
3:33 Red Dead Redemption 2
4:02 Ray Tracing - The Witcher 3
4:35 Cyberpunk 2077
5:16 Forza Horizon 5
5:55 Another VRAM Hog - Watch Dogs Legion
6:25 24 Game Average Difference - 1080p
6:46 24 Game Average Difference - 1440p
7:01 24 Game Average Difference - 4K
7:17 Is RX 6800M Still Capable for Gaming in 2023?
7:25 6800M Worth it for 12GB VRAM?
7:47 Is 8GB VRAM Enough?
8:17 6800M Negatives
9:06 A Better Alternative to 6800M?
10:12 Where the 6800M Still Makes Sense
10:26 How Much VRAM Do You Need?
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If you want more details on the RAM I tested with, it's the same kit I used 2 years ago in this video with the 6800M: czcams.com/video/8XCeAdFqsKg/video.html so 1Rx8 in dual channel - an upgrade over the stock x16 stuff, as I think this should be done for optimal 6800M performance.
4:03 The Witcher 3 graphs saying RT was disabled on the graph is wrong, a copy paste fail from other graphs. It was definitely tested with the RT preset.
I saw that video, it's very helpful and guided me to upgrade my ram, thanks for your efforts jarrod 🙏
I have watched the entire video, the previous one as well, and others, in this one you did mention that u used the same RAM upgrade kit and an external monitor, how come from an laptop that was neck in neck with 3080 165W, now can't even get higher values than 3070?
I see people missing out on the screen as well, I don't see any gaming laptop in this budget having such a great screen with 100% DCI-P3. I understand that 3070Ti and a 4070 would be better for some workflows but those would be quite expensive and you may need an external monitor as well still.
Hello Jarrod. Which one have better display quality and cooling system : Asus strix g16 rtx 4060 or acer Helios neo 16 rtx 4060 ???
@@mironescu28 We didn't test a 3070 here, but perhaps it just didn't age as well for other reasons.
I bought this laptop after watching your review before a month. I wanted to go for 4060, but the price difference in my country was 300$. So, I went for 6800m. Love it. Thank you for reviewing it again.
I was wondering how you got 12GB of VRAM for $1000, but then I remembered that other GPU makers exist...lol
Bought this laptop 2 y ago and im still using it, no issues whatsoever. Overall great machine for gaming even at 1440p
it's great to see you re-reviewing old laptops as there's not a lot of videos on them and drivers could've improved over time
not to mention the 5980HX 6850M refresh has been below $1000 at BEST BUY on their all tie low.... probably the best bang for the buck of the last 5 years
not worth it, the rx6800m/rx6850m is the rebranded rx6700xt desktop which was only $230 on sale
@@sownlengoc 1- where in the world was a 6700XT $230 EVER?
2- cool, can you bring that desktop into a classroom?
@@jesusbarrera6916 1. in Vietnam
2. I know you need a laptop but this is not a clever choice. you should buy a ultrabook, as light as it can be, then you will thank me. I recommend a LG gram 2022
@@sownlengoc ah yes... An Ultrabook for arquitectos and 3d designers
Thank you genius...
Yeah, try 3D modeling on an Intel iGPU and a 4-core 1ghz CPU. Not great, at least until Intel makes a really good iGPU.
Been loving my G15 Advantage had it over a year with no issues. Glad it has the 12gb if VRAM if it only had 8 i couldn't have played quite a few games now.
I watch your vids because i have the same laptop, keep up the good work 👍!
@@Ange_Guerrier Thank you very much for watching and I certainly will.
@@XxViciousxXhi vicious i watched all of your vids before getting it yesterday, i have stuttering issue when i playon 1440p res in any game, it gets better when i throttle it,is this normal? Is upgrading ram to 32gb gonna solve my problem?
@@Savageir Certain games can stutter if you only have 16 GB of RAM but most should be smooth. Mine is pretty much always at 96-97c and I don't get stutter (well besides in badly optimized games) but that's not the laptop's fault.
@@XxViciousxX thank you so much brother
The only problem with this laptop is that it's not available in my country. Which is a shame considering how great it is. I'll try scouring the outside market to find this if it's available. It's a great and underrated laptop atm.
Aw :(
@@JarrodsTech SEA man. It has options, just not the cream of the crop 😂.
It's not you, AMD laptops are rarely available even in countries they are officially released in
Well laptops with AMD GPUs are very rare to find anyway. You will most likely to see AMD CPU but not AMD GPU.
@@Jakiyyyyy true. Closest we got is HP's Omen with 6600M and now TUF A16 with 7600S. It's an inevitable thing.
Can i ask an important question if i bought a laptop with no windows preinstalled and installed it in any store that installs it with a license will this affect gaming experience????
I find it weird that quite a few laptop variants of desktop cards are usually one tier lower in specifications. Like a 4070 desktop is closer to a 4060 laptop that's overclocked.
Edited because people got confused by 2 letters...
Because the dont give a fk about proper naming...
I think you accidentally swapped the laptop with desktop in the gpu names
The 4060,4070 and 4050 laptop GPU's don't see any performance improvement above 90 watts ... And at 90 watts 4070 is only about 25% better than the 4050 at 90 watts
There's no 4060Ti laptop, unless you meant this the other way around
@@soulsbourneSide effects of being crippled by a measley 128 bit memory bandwidth, Nvidia ruined what could have been an epic lineup
Super useful analysis Jared, thanks so much for your insightful work. You've really dispelled the myth of VRAM here - at least as far as it relates to laptop GPUs.
I bought the 165hz 1440p variant of this laptop last year with a USB-C dock hub and have since sold my desktop. This laptop has converted me to a full-time laptop user.
Thanks so much for your experience. I'm not sure right now, but I might buy one if it's fine for me.
Bro I just bought this a couple weeks ago. Picked it up for 1400 with tax and I love it.
Good to hear!
It's an interesting unit for sure. I picked up two of these last year for 750-800$ each. There's a couple of things that hold back the potential of the laptop. If one's willing to hunt for deals that are below the 750$ mark nowadays and is willing to get into tinkering this machine, it can be quite a decent grab.
You got to steal! Great find
Can you guide a bit on the tinkering part? Any video I can follow?
@@boristhebear9511 Certainly! If you need a point to start, I'd recommend looking into Skii's G15 Advantage Edition Tuning video. There's also XxViciousxX that goes quite in depth with their own unit in various games and subjects related to the laptop.
Have this laptop for an year now, got it for $1100 which is extremely good. I'm not than satisfied with the power of this machine. I play games daily in this @ 2k. Lovely machine❤️
it would also be interesting to make an analysis of this laptop for content creators and especially for those who work with design or 3D
Does amd integrated graphics work like intels? aka boots to intgrated graphics.. uses it until it needs help ect. dumps ram to it. ect.
Got a Legion 7 2021 model with 3080 16G VRAM and 5900hx after watching the 4060/4070 review, with less than 1500$ in my country, pretty happy with it, especially when you want to run some cool AI model locally, 16G VRAM is very useful.
I was actually gonna settle with this laptop but ultimately decided to go with building a desktop 3060 due to my limited budget and my softwares' way of functioning with certain gpus but its worth it 👍
love my g15. New ram and 2tb storage with a gaming monitor, and you good to go
You can get plenty of extra fps from this laptop with proper tweaks, for example I have 91 fps compare to 77 on video in RDR2 at Ultra settings
I’ve used this one for almost a year and it’s got to be my favorite machine I’ve ever used. It’s a beast, keeps up with everything I throw at it and more, mainly at 1440p.
Couldn’t be happier.
You changed it?
atleast those extra vram will be useful to max/high texture settings in many games at 1440p
It is worth to buy a gaming laptop with 6800m or rtx 4060? Im playing some older games like e sport games and sometimes newer and older games that doesnt support dlss or fsr.
I’ve been rocking this Amd advantage laptop since release. I play a lot of vr, 1440p 1440hz and 4K 60hz. This laptop is such a beast.
Its a great laptop for the money. I noticed his benchmarks seem a bit lower than what I experience but I swapped out my ram for 32Gb of lower timing stuff. Also - running G-Helper instead of Armory Crate frees up system performance because you can uninstall ASUS bloatware services.
Hi, pls do u have any idea why my games are stuttering at 1440p? They run smoothly but i have sudden stutter for 2 sec, i got the same laptop as video
@@Savageir lock the frame rate to 60fps
@@Savageir Thermal throttling in Turbo mode. make a custom fan curve for your video card in armory crate and at 80-90 Degrees make the fans 100%
Hello, can somebody tell me if a mid budge laptop (ex. Legion 5) is a decent gaming laptop for single player mainly games?
I would strongly recommend NOT to buy a 4k laptop for gaming, since laptops mid-tier laptops aren't there yet. You have to buy a 4080 or 4090 laptop for enough 4k performance and even then upscaling is a must in many cases...
Have thia laptop right about your first review! Still doing great with my current games!
Probably the best laptop that I had.
Excellent time for this video. Apart from the liquid metal and wifi card issues, it is an incredible laptop!
What are the 24 games that you tested? Did you include those VRAM hungry ones that goes over 8gb at 1080p High and above setting like Star Wars Jedi Survivor or TLoU part 1?
I've been using this laptop for about 2 years. Fantastic performance, reliability etc. 100% receommended from me.
about vram vs raw GPU power: Textures on high quality requires a lot of vRAM. A game with ultra textures with eveything else set to medium would look MUCH better than textures set to medium but everything else to ultra. Texture quality is the most important setting for a game to look good. To sacrifice vram amount for raw performance means to lose the most important graphics quality of all.
I agree. What good is all the bells and whistles if you get N64 level textures
Should i buy this or go for lenovo legion 5 pro 2021 3060 or Asus tuf a15 2022 3060 qhd .
For general gaming and use.
Someone just sold me a G17 Advantage Edition that was lightly-used, was a bit impressed, so watched the G15 AE review and was quite happy. But then I saw this video, hahaha, having mixed feelings.
Very informative video, seems like 2yrs have gone by very quickly, even for tech.
I didn't understand such a huge difference between this 6800m and legion 7 6850m.
RDR2 63fps and 109fps,
CP2077 43fps and 60fps.
it's even slower than legion 7 6700m
Had this since it launched. I can say the Linux support is great now since AMD drivers are in the kernel + Asusctl.
Unfortunately, I have a Legion 7 2022 that also happens to be an AMD Advantage laptop, and I've had serious issues with it on Linux; Tails would get stuck on a white screen, as would playing games full screen.
Never happened on my Nvidia RTX 3050 Ti laptop or my 4090 desktop (granted, I couldn't use Wayland on my desktop until recently but still), and not being able to fullscreen games is a pretty huge problem for a "gaming" laptop.
@@cameronbosch1213 Sounds like some other issue since with the same cpu/gpu the g15 advantage edition does not have this issue. What distro are you using? Something else has to be off since linux support on the g15 has been 100% since it came out.
@@PineyJustice I've tried using Tails (white screens upon boot, but the windows are still there, but I can't see them, likely an issue with GDM) and any KDE Plasma distro (I'm using Arch, BTW 😂) has the same problem when changing certain widgets, theme, or screen edge settings, which is happening on Wayland (which you know, AMD should be fine with). Even a reinstall did not fix the issue, and I havne't tried XOrg for obvious reasons, like the fact AMD *should work on* Wayland!
@@PineyJustice And even the speakers work in the UEFI and so do performance modes (the latter because I think firmware, not Vantage, manages those performance mode settings). I've never had this exact problem with any other computer, and even a full motherboard replacement (for another unrelated issue) did not cause the issue to go away.
@@cameronbosch1213 Strange, I'm using manjaro on mine and have had zero issues since day 1, you mentioned you have the legion, I have the g15, does the legion have a mux? That could be where your problem is.
Is it wise to get the legion 5 pro from 2021 rn,cuz the price of it is similar to 3060 legion 5 pro from last year and most laptops comes with 4050 at that price point for some reason here in india
Hello Jarrod , are u planing in future to do some review for Oculink (M.2. to oculink -> to Gpu pcei adapter ? ) for older laptops ? and if it could be good for gaming on monitor at home at 1440p ? if u are lacking GPU on ur own laptop ?> could be better then buying whole new laptop ?
Hello Jarrod. Which one have better display quality and cooling system : Asus strix g16 rtx 4060 or acer Helios neo 16 rtx 4060 ???
Did you plug into an external monitor in order to bypass the IGPU?
thanks for this, i have been on the fence about whether to get the strix or a newer nvidia laptop, going to look out for a 4060 laptop now, i wont allways be using it with an external monitor so the mux switch in a newer laptop will be benificial to me and also in not overly keen on the idea in the idea of liquid metal in a laptop thats going to get bounced around in my van.
What's the best way to update this laptops GPU drivers? Just use the Asus drivers?(I don't think they update them anymore) Or download 6800m drivers from AMD directly?
When downloading the amd drivers, does that affect the smart power feature between the CPU and GPU?
I'm looking for the most stability.
Using a smaller screen I don’t really see playing at 4K worth it for any performance hit. So at 1440p a lot of these games seem to be handling well with just 8vram on a 4070 laptop
I got a Alienware M15 R5 3070 5900HX with 8GB ram i'm playing on a extern monitor 1440p it perform still well but in new games with graphics settings at max (Baldur's Gate 3 for example) I have a lot of fps drop and of course the pc heats up a lot (issue with this model) I think I should turn to a 4080 is that what the Lenovo Legion i7 is a good deal for 2400€?
Great video as always..i've been searching for a good 18 inch rtx 4080 laptop to replace my rtx 3080 lenovo legion 7. Hopefully u can make a comparison for all 18 inch gaming laptop. Currently eyeing for acer helios 18. But sadly there is no proper review for that laptop yet.
bro you consider buying this or MSI pulse 15 i7 13700h rtx 4070 or MSI gp66 vector i7 12700h rtx 3070ti please i need help answer please ?
What the heck happened to the 1% lows on the RTX 3080 Ti in Forza Horizon 5?
Were all the textures loading properly on all tested cards. From what I've seen in some demos, it doesn't always slow down, but just looks terrible.
Hi, is the laptop using x8 or x16 ram for this test.
This laptop or lenovo legion 5i non pro 12700h 3070 8gb? I play warzone and forza
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Can i dowgrade resolution to full hd in this laptop?
I bought this laptop 2 years ago , overall i am very satisfied , my only problem with that is that crashes when i use 3d grass on lumion , i have tried new win installation with the latest drivers but still nothing
How does it preform for VR games?
Gotta say I have this laptop after upgrading the ram and the wifi card, throwing an extra ssd in it, hooking it up to an external screen. I love it. Don't need the external screen because you can run all the new games at 1440p high setting. If you willing too upgrade the ram and wifi card I highly recommend this laptop. Can't beat that 12gbs of vram unless you want to get that 3080ti with the 16gbs.
Same. Also install G-Helper to replace Armory Crate. It saves a lot on background processes that are no longer needed.
@@lordcommander3224Thanks for sharing
I have this laptop and when I try to run Benchmark it’s shuts down 🥺 anybody knows why?
Jarrod, thanks for this kind of videos, but in relation to this video is Legion 7 with 6850m XT 6800H 16GB RAM worth it for 1500 usd (tax included) over this Asus G15 and Dell variant? There is an option to overpay for 6900hx 32GB RAM, for 1700$, but i dont think its worth it since its same CPU just unlocked. Your opinion really matters.
My G15 AE keeps randomly shutting down, not sure what's the issue. It's stock and unmodified. Any ideas? I thought of overheating, but i use a laptop cooling pad.
Download G-Helper and turn off aggressive overclock. This laptop hits up to 90 Celsius.
I got my temps down to the low 70s.
More vram comes handy when you want to install that 8k texture mod for you game.
Ah, it doesn't have a MUX switch. I was wondering why my 6850M XT, which is only slightly faster in spec, was putting up noticeably better numbers. I disabled the iGPU in my 6900HX and saw a noticeable bump in performance.
Yeah one of the downsides of this model, but it is also generally cheaper (when on sale), so I guess I get it.. But yeah anyway to be fair, we tested with an external screen connected to Type-C, so iGPU was bypassed in this testing.
Is disabling iGPU is safe ? My Lenovo IdeaPad gaming 3 doesn't have a mux switch I'm wondering if disabling igpu is safe or not
@@skz7936 its not. dont do that
@@skz7936 usually disabling the igpu may cause issues as it is like what bridges out the frames to your laptop display. To bypass you'll need to play via a external display as especially the HDMI out of laptops are connected directly to the dGPU.
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Thanks for the link, ordered me the Alienware m17 that's half off with the 6900hx and 6850m. Beast set up for 1100ish
I got an XG Mobile 6850M XT with my Ally. What a killer combo. Both for only $1,300! I'm waiting until next year to pick up a 4K gamjng labtop. I don't think the 4090M is there just yet.
I'm also building a $3.5K-$4K 4090 rig at this time as well.
That's a pretty good deal!
I have a desktop with a RTX3080 and this laptop. On both I do not turn on Ray Tracing specially on Witcher 3 which is broken. I really want to know if that 24 game benchmark contains games with Ray Tracing ON. The Performance of this laptop at launch was between 3070ti and a 3080 now its bellow a 3070ti hmmmmmmmm.
One trick I learned from 2-year ownership: your CPU can hit 95-96C playing high demand games (Red Dead Redemption for example), and 70s idle. I went to Windows battery options, and turned off boost for the Performance profile. You still retain great performance but temps are around 10C lower!! Leaving the Turbo profile for when you want max performance (and heat 😅)
I just use Ryzen controller to set up whatever temperature o want.
Hello sir , i got it yesterday exact specs as video, i have stuttering when i play any game on 1440p res, any idea about this problem?cuz im returning it for a new piece soon
@@Savageir by stuttering, did you mean low fps or fps dips? Is your laptop running on AC power? Which performance profile in Amory Crate? Using the discrete graphics card? It's difficult to determine the issue without knowing how you've configured it
@@bathong188 done everything u mentioned, fps is smooth like 140-150 suddenly it comes down to 15-17 fps for two seconds.
@@Savageir Aw that sucks. I hope you've resolved the issue by now. I'd try doing a clean install with the AMD graphics driver tool
Jarrod, how do you find buying laptops from New Egg to Australia? I see some great prices but worry about the warranty, change of mind returns( I had to recently return a laptop to Lenovo cos it gave me eyepain) or it arriving dead on arrival. What has been your experience buying overseas?
I've bought multiple things from Newegg without issue, however, I have not had to return anything, so I'm not sure how easy/difficult the process would be from Australia.
hi jarrod, quick question, is the MUX switch important if im planning to play VR games through quest link/airlink (uses compressed image data, doesnt behave like a direct display)
No, it's not going to be going directly out the gpu in that case, it's being encoded and sent out the network adapter. I have this laptop, it does pretty well for VR considering it's only 40cu.
@@PineyJustice thanks
@@PineyJustice You sir pretty much answered a question I've been having for a bit. Looks like I won't have to invest into something to output from the dGPU in that case if 75%+ of my use case is VR.
Bought one of these with the 1080p 300hz screen back when they first went on sale for $1100 and upgraded to 32gb of 3600mhz ram. I mostly do CAD work in my spare time and my gaming is usually VR (12gb vram
Probably one of the best VR laptops Price/Perf out there. Never thought at first that I'd need the 12GB of VRAM out of an unit, but going from a Dell G15 with a 5800H|3060 to this thing's been something I haven't regretted. I wouldn't necessarily buy the G15 AE brand new now, but I can absolutely recommend the Alienware AE with how cheap that thing's been going for pure Price/Perf.
I don't know why these people keep saying cheap. Only cheap in comparison not cheap at all. You have to look up the definition cheap. Budget gaming laptop is what people are looking for. That's cheap which can be from $300-500 bagging price.
You're going to find it pretty difficult to find a gaming laptop in that price range, especially from within the last year or two. At least without having to buy second hand. The cheapest option we have our deals site right now is $500
Thank you. It's great to know that last gen games are still well supported on 8gb cards. Next step, Hogwart's Legacy, Jedi Survivor, TLOU part 1, and RE 4 remake? Surprisingly D4 is a vram hog. Hopefully, the upcoming Starfield is going to be less problematic.
Seeing 4050 matching 6800M in Far Cry 6 is all kinds of wrong.
hey jarod, could you please show a performance review of Microsoft flight simulator on 1080P Ultra maxed out flying over London city on a B787 if you have premium msfs or just the A320 or A310. I cant choose between 3070ti vs 6800M vs 4060. I just need best performance on MSFS within this budget. I already have XPG 3200mhz ram 16GB x 2 which could run perfectly.
I recently got the 5980hx version and whenever I use the dedicated graphics to game it gets super hot even on low settings. Anybody know why?
All laptops are like that dear, I think better to limit the fps to 60 fps if you you are not playing shooting games. Also if you play lite games that doesn't need full cpu power to disable cpu performance boost. You can ceck that in youtube
When buying a new ssd for my laptop do I need to get the version with a heat sink or does the laptop already come with one in the open slot? Thanks!
I went with the flat copper plate nvme heatsinks and the results were pretty impressive for something cheap and simple. Idle around 35c and load under crystal disk benchmark was never above 42c with silicon power nvme
can u please tell me is the zephyrus g16 uses the exact same chassis of m16 (2022)? I mean is the keyboard deck of g16 picks up finger print like the m16 and is the keyboard also same?
I believe so, I haven't had a G16 to confirm, but that's what ASUS told me.
@@JarrodsTech thx man! It's really great that you respond to your supporters and try to help us
I'm so confused if I should go for legion 5 with 3070 or this asus because it has much better vram than the 3070
Is there any real difference between the regular and the advantage of tradition
Are you sure you are doing this laptop justice as its performance highly depends on its wattage. With proper LM repaste and a decent cooling pad like the Iets Gt500 the GPU can fully utilize 165W in Manual mode and sometimes even crank up to 170W which nets me 11k9 timespy graphic score, equivalent to rtx4070 with 50% more vram. With stock cooling the gpu throttle quite heavily depending on cooling sometimes to only 10k points which is the same with 4060 laptop (the throttle limit is 82c). Ive rocked multiple games in 4k with FSR with decent performance as its in the same tier with the 3060ti desktop with the exception of 12gb sweet vram🍭. Actually bought it 2 years ago based on your recommendation but it sure requires some fiddling to get the most out of it.
Could you please tell me how to do power scaling test
Nice.
This laptop deserved a re-review.
I own one, M6 batch (means still not great LM application).
After 18 months i decided to go through the repaste process.
Got rid of the LM (tedious).
Removed the old thermal pads. Installed new thermal pads (1 mm and 0.5 mm). Applied some K5 Pro.
And applied Grizzly Kryonaut, for both, CPU and GPU.
And of course the trick to add a nylon washer to each screw of the Vapor Chamber, to increase the mounting pressure.
Amazing results.
Before: Idling at 67C. Max Temp of 99C, Throttling.
After: Idling at 46C. Max Temp 96C, NO Throttling.
I have also took advantange and redo the Win 11 install.
Did not install Armoury Crate at all. And using GHlper instead. Perfect.
Running Bios 316.
I have some PTM 7950 available, but i am very fine with this config.
Hello , i got this laptop yesterday, 16gb ram default, i have stuttering issue when i play games on 1440p resolution, any idea about that?because Im Returning this now for a new piece
@@Savageir never use Games to test. Use Benchmarks. TimeSpy, Firestrike, R23...
How long can you hold 190w combined load?
Can I ask you on how many gigabytes of SSD it can support in one slot? Because I want to buy 2-4gb of ssd
it has 2 ssd slots and you can put up to 4 tb (2 tb each)
Wow , this has solidified my decision to get the 4080 ROG strix 16", the 4080 isnt too far behind that 4090, but the 4070 is wayy behind
am I the only one who feels like gamers get caught up in the consumeristic mindset of always needing to play the latest AAA games on ultra settings or feeling like they're "missing out"?
buying a high quality laptop that's a few years older, can play 60-100 FPS on most games, but may have to suffer the cruelty of playing on medium settings should be ok for most people...and can save you a ton of money.
I think I'd be happy with this laptop cus of the price point and the fact that it's going to suit my needs. Most of my games don't need a top end GPU anyway.
Hey jarrod I would like to see a review of the 2023 ideapad gaming 3 ideally the rtx 4050 modle
A few years ago we were talking about the number of transistors, after that we started talking about Tflops and now we talk about VRAM ☠️
If I purchase this laptop with the R9 5980HX with SmartShift, can it hold up for at least 4 years?
Had this for 2 years or so based on your original review. Still have no issues to this day and only paid $1200.
Man, love my Asus G14 RTX 3060, but it's feeling the VRAM squeeze. I'm Golden with my XFX 7900 XTX @3Ghz and 24GB VRAM at 1.1Tbs+ on PC, but it's tuff on laptops 💯
Im now stuck on 1Gb vram radeon graphicks but Im looking forward to buying razer blade 17 2021 with rtx 3080 with 12Gb vram
I was shocked when you and hardware unboxed had an entire stream on Vram in Laptop GPUs and didn't mention the 6800M in it.
Thank You!
I bought this laptop on launch, still don't need to upgrade for a while.
Prolly wait for 8800m if they ever make that.
I have this laptop, got it in 2021, I've put 64GB of RAM on it, it's a great beast, I run Linux on it and do heavy virtualization, the laptop can handle anything.
And you can use all of the 64 GB? It says it can handle 32 GB max.
Hey Jarrod, when can we expect 7600m xt reviews?
I bought this laptop used off Ebay for £650 (with 1440p 165 Hz display) and have had no issues with it in the last few months. I use it full time as my main PC, which has replaced my old 9700K/3060Ti desktop. You can't beat the cost to performance ratio. It's better than a desktop for the same money and you get a high quality screen.
Apparently, in some country there are intel A730M with 12GB VRAM.
Either way raw graphics capability was only around 3060 mobile level in FS.
Yet strangely, Timespy graphics score are around 3070 - 3070 Ti laptop.
why dont you add editing benchmarks? it would be great if you do
My desktop ran every game at slightly above 1080p with my i7 8700k W/ rtx. 2070 non super but the last of us showed me it’s slacking with 8gb of VRAM. I bit the bullet and bought the 2023 Razer Blade 16 with rtx 4090 170w with 4k screen. This thing is amazing! Better than my desktop for sure but battery life kinda sucks but now I can bring it with me for work and not bring my tower everywhere
The 4090 mobile is nuts! That thing is beast
is this testing with stock ram or faster x8 ram ? hope to see your reply as this wasn't mentioned in the video and it can crucially affecting the performance of the gpu .
Ram used shown in specs. It isn't the stock ram
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@@JarrodsTech oh, I missed that part thanks for clarifying, although in hardware unbox video two years ago they showed its comparable to rtx 3070 3080 laptop, closer to 3080. Anyway more vram is always better playing with medium setting and ultra texture is much better. 😁
I feel like 1080p max settings is still doable on my RTX 3060 laptop most of the time and it's fine. My 7900 XTX can do 4k@60fps+ max all day, but it's using just under 450w at 3Ghz; which isn't possible in small factor. At the end of the day I wish we could get the extra value AMD's offering for desktop PCs on laptops, but that just isn't the case. For now, my 3060 is fine and takes care of my mobile gaming needs just fine. That always changes though. So, I really appreciate your content. It's some of the most useful information available anywhere, very thorough and as unbiased as possible. Thanks for all the late nights and hard work. You are appreciated!
We have 200w GPU's in laptops during turing with 330w bricks. They came in 4kg 17' laptops. Then lenovo crammed a 180w 3080ti into a 2.6kg 16' laptop with a 300w brick. With a 330w brick I'm sure it can do 200w on the GPU.
The 4090 doesn't lose much performance at 250w vs 350w to 400w. So realistically you can put a 230w to 250w rtx 4090 into a thicker 18' laptop and maybe use a 220w to 230w rtx 4090 in a 17' laptop and still retain most of the desktop 4090's performance. MUCH faster than the current ''4090''m.
PLS HELP...Hi jarred i bought this laptop yesterday, i watched all your reviews before i buy it, its a beast but i have stuttering issue in every game when i select 1440p,game is running smoothly and one explosion in environment causes game to stutter for 2 second and fps comes down to 10-15...any solutions?
(I updated everything and tried older bios versions too)
Have you tried lowering settings or resolution in game?
@@JarrodsTech yes low graphics its fine and running smoothly on lower graphics and 1080p on performance mode, my problem is with 1440p high graphics which leads to stuttering,and stuttering reduces when i throttle it, do you think its because of default rams? Or default ssd ? Or something else is wrong with laptop ?
@@Savageirconsider running a timespy
If you get anything lower than 9-10k replace it you got a improper LM application
Setup rivia overlay and play games the clock speed probably drops to 400mhz
That's the failsafe frequency the chip will drop to if its running too hot
Hey everyone, for the next years u think this laptop still worth? Im cant choose, because i have 2 options this Asus rog r9 95900HX rx6800m or i7 12650H RTX4060, please u help to choose, just use to play and fun nothing of work
How many frames on Apex legends in max ,medium and low .most videos are from 1 year ago so latest data would help choose
I only tested in max for this.
1080p: 190 AVG FPS, 160 1% low
1440p: 146 AVG FPS, 127 1% low
4k: 85 AVG FPS, 76 1% low