GTX 965M Performance in 3DS Max, Maya, and UE4 Engine?

[Dreznon]

Hello,

I was wondering if anyone out there with the GTX 965M can run these softwares with big assets nicely. I understand that RAM and CPU are big factors in the programs but I am not worried about those as I have a 3610qm and the lowest cpu in the laptops with the GTX 965M are 4700qm. So I will be fine. The biggest thing is that I have used a gaming card before and did not like the experience. It was jittery and overall nasty.

The problem in my brain says:

The GTX 9th generation is phenominal in every way. My budget does not allow a laptop with a 1080, 1070, or 1060 in it so I don't have to ever think about this again. I have seen someone running a i5 5500u with hd and 8gb of ram load up his UE4 in a 1/4 of the time it took me. This makes me think that the newer instruction sets help the cpu run tasks faster although their benchmark is small. Drivers help the baby cpu because it is 2 generations newer than mine. I don't know, but all of that is logical. The next thing is that slowly the consumer grade (gaming card) has abolished the old adage, you need a firepro or quadro. Drivers this and drivers that blagh blagh. I know certain ones can do what a quadro can do, but what about the GTX 965M. I would like to hear from someone that has one.

Make Benchmark (2Dmark) My rating (1-10)

From my experience R9-270x 658 4
quadro 600 615 7
GTX 970 851 10
K1000M 658 10
GTX 960 762 8
intel hd 5500 528 7
intel hd 4000 527 5

Please, someone help me with my headache.

 

[itsmedatguy]

I taught myself 3DS Max on a laptop with an i7-6700HQ, GTX 960M 4GB and 16GB RAM. I never experienced any issues with it, everything ran very smoothly in the viewport. You mentioned big assets, and basically you're going to be limited by the 4GB of VRAM (which is a good amount anyway). If your scene uses more than that, it's going to slow to a crawl. The same is true on any other graphics card though, always limited by the VRAM for this type of work. I'd say as far as a laptop GPU goes, the 965M is going to be plenty capable. Where you're really going to see it is when it's time to render and your renderer is GPU dependent. I was using a lot of iRay, and noticed render times were much quicker on my desktop GTX 970.

 

[williamcummins]

The simple answer to your question is : yes, a GTX965M can run 3ds Max, Maya and Unreal 4 smoothly. Hell, a GTX 750ti will do the job.
That being said, unless you are going to use your laptop for intense real time rendering, the GTX 965M will do just fine.
Unreal Engine will benefit from a faster GPU more than Maya or 3ds Max. But again, no need for a quadro or a firepro.

 

[Dreznon]

Thanks itsmedatguy, I am a little more confident with that. especially when the 2dmark for the 960m is 590 and the 965m is 611. This is awesome. I came across a gem of a card. These laptops are priced right, don't tell anyone.

 

[Dreznon]

I appreciate the feedback williamcummins. I really like someone that will publicly say quadro and firepro is not needed. I have seen some professional piping models for oil rigs and I wonder if those would. You know, what they say they are for, the precise calculations of exact scale. It would be interesting to see the results.

By the way the goal is to use the laptop for creating a 3D movie in unreal with photorealistism with the projected laptop.