A laptop equivalent to my gaming pc

synysterxdave

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I'm looking for a laptop that has similar performance as my main PC.

My pc has an i5 4670k, 8gb ddr3 and a gtx 770.
I'm not so bothered about the hdd size, the bulk/weight or even battery life as it's going to be plugged in at more or less all times.

Ideally it would be around £700 but if it can't be done something with very similar performance would be OK too.

It's going to be used as a gaming rig almost exclusively when I'm staying in hotels.

Thank you in advance 🙂
 
Solution
The CPU is going to be slower, the 4690K currently has no match in the laptop space. You need to look for an i5 H processor or i7 H, the U ones won't come close.

As for the GPU side, you're going to have to wait for the 1060M to be released (next 3 months probably) to get something in that price range, the GTX970M is the equivalent in performance, and all laptops with that or the 980M are well out of your price range
The CPU is going to be slower, the 4690K currently has no match in the laptop space. You need to look for an i5 H processor or i7 H, the U ones won't come close.

As for the GPU side, you're going to have to wait for the 1060M to be released (next 3 months probably) to get something in that price range, the GTX970M is the equivalent in performance, and all laptops with that or the 980M are well out of your price range
 
Solution
Many i5 laptops only have 2 cores, making them equivalent to an i3 desktop.... But a desktop i3 runs at 3.5Ghz, where a laptop i5 typically runs at 2.5Ghz.
"Gaming Laptop" is a bit of a contradiction.
Laptops cannot match a desktop PC performance because they have to run on battery power, and have very small CPU and GPU coolers
 


1) Gaming laptops often have TDP of >100W, sometimes as high as 150W (equivalent to an i3 6100 and gtx1060)
2) His GPU is very old now, the 980M is faster, and very likely the 1060M is too. Those are laptop chips. The CPU may be slower, but most games won't see that big of an FPS drop from a full-fat chip like the i5 6500 to a skylake H chip (check out the performance of the Skull Canyon's i7 H)