Hey guys!
So I'm on the edge of getting myself a not-so-expensive gaming laptop and I'm really confused about these VRAM's... Setting aside everything else, I wonder whether these a 4gb 860M will make my laptop more future-proof than the 2gb 960M, because it seems like most of the new games require more than 2gb's of VRAM to run at ultra settings. It's not that I'm going to play much on ultra and I'm not planning to use a resolution higher than 1080p, but I really don't want my laptop to be obsolete 3 years from now because I won't be able to get myself a new pc or laptop in the near future (let's say 3-4 years).
In short, the problem is if it's worth losing the extra performance of 960M against the 4gb's of a 860M, and the future-proofness of such a choice. I don't expect any of these to perform extremely well but still, I don't want my new laptop to become like my old 2010 notebook that struggles while playing Skyrim on low-medium settings.
So I'm on the edge of getting myself a not-so-expensive gaming laptop and I'm really confused about these VRAM's... Setting aside everything else, I wonder whether these a 4gb 860M will make my laptop more future-proof than the 2gb 960M, because it seems like most of the new games require more than 2gb's of VRAM to run at ultra settings. It's not that I'm going to play much on ultra and I'm not planning to use a resolution higher than 1080p, but I really don't want my laptop to be obsolete 3 years from now because I won't be able to get myself a new pc or laptop in the near future (let's say 3-4 years).
In short, the problem is if it's worth losing the extra performance of 960M against the 4gb's of a 860M, and the future-proofness of such a choice. I don't expect any of these to perform extremely well but still, I don't want my new laptop to become like my old 2010 notebook that struggles while playing Skyrim on low-medium settings.