Nvidia GeForce GT 635M (any good?)

[Louis Brown]

I've found a decent laptop with 8GB RAM, i5 3230M and a 1TB HDD which all sounds great to me, also which sounds great is that it comes with a dedicated graphics card. It a 2GB Nvidia GeForce GT 635M and I've been searching everywhere for a laptop with a decent card, but I'm just wondering if this is too good to be true. Ideally I'd like to be playing games like Skyrim and BF3 OR medium, possibly even high setting and I'm wondering if this would be able to cope.

Thanks for any contribution

 

[PyjamasCat]

I've found a decent laptop with 8GB RAM, i5 3230M and a 1TB HDD which all sounds great to me, also which sounds great is that it comes with a dedicated graphics card. It a 2GB Nvidia GeForce GT 635M and I've been searching everywhere for a laptop with a decent card, but I'm just wondering if this is too good to be true. Ideally I'd like to be playing games like Skyrim and BF3 OR medium, possibly even high setting and I'm wondering if this would be able to cope.

Thanks for any contribution

I had a laptop that could push medium settings on skyrim and borderlands. Specs: i5 430m, GT 210m @ 1366x768 res, basic HDD. It probably only worked because of the lower resolution though. What is the laptop model you are looking at and what is your budget as we may be able to find something better or more suited. From the specs you have listed though, you could push medium to high at 1600x900, but it depends on the game also.

 

[cookybiscuit]

High and medium dream on, it might pass on modern games at all low.

 

[Louis Brown]

I've found a decent laptop with 8GB RAM, i5 3230M and a 1TB HDD which all sounds great to me, also which sounds great is that it comes with a dedicated graphics card. It a 2GB Nvidia GeForce GT 635M and I've been searching everywhere for a laptop with a decent card, but I'm just wondering if this is too good to be true. Ideally I'd like to be playing games like Skyrim and BF3 OR medium, possibly even high setting and I'm wondering if this would be able to cope.

Thanks for any contribution

I had a laptop that could push medium settings on skyrim and borderlands. Specs: i5 430m, GT 210m @ 1366x768 res, basic HDD. It probably only worked because of the lower resolution though. What is the laptop model you are looking at and what is your budget as we may be able to find something better or more suited. From the specs you have listed though, you could push medium to high at 1600x900, but it depends on the game also.

The model I'm looking at is a Lenovo Ideapad Z580 >> http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B009RGBD2C/ref=noref?ie=UTF8&psc=1&s=computers

My budget is around £500 to £600 and I need a relatively capable laptop that can handle new-ish games on mid setting (hence the GT 635M). I know I could probably get more for my money by getting a custom build but I'm not really sure where to go with it. I would be real helpful if I knew what to look for because I'm not really sure if I need a whole terabyte of hard storage and maybe I should consider an AMD CPU instead?

 

[nikoli707]

my a10-4600m with the built-in 7660g handles skyrim on a mix of high/medium with about 50+ texture mods no problem running 720p/768p. also runs BF3 the same mix of settings at 720p well too. both games run better on my laptop compared to a side by side with a ps3/360.

there are quite a few versions of the 635m, the best one is the 144 shaders with gddr5 memory. that said, even the lowest 96 shaders w/gddr3 memory should be at least on par with my a10 trinity.

 

[Louis Brown]

my a10-4600m with the built-in 7660g handles skyrim on a mix of high/medium with about 50+ texture mods no problem running 720p/768p. also runs BF3 the same mix of settings at 720p well too. both games run better on my laptop compared to a side by side with a ps3/360.

there are quite a few versions of the 635m, the best one is the 144 shaders with gddr5 memory. that said, even the lowest 96 shaders w/gddr3 memory should be at least on par with my a10 trinity.

Was yours a custom build? And I've been looking around for laptops with AMD GPUs but can't seem to find any :/

 

[nikoli707]

its an hp envy m6 that i got refurbished back in late dec of 12 from best buy for $399. the only things i did was throw in a 120gb ssd and 8gb of some 1.35v cas9 1600 ram to help lower the total overall power consumption and increase performance all around. according to 3dmark11 and some heaven 3.0 benches I'm right at or maybe 2-3% faster than a i3 equipped gt630m.

the amd trinity a4 a6 a8 and a10 cpu's are apu's with built in gpu's, with the a10-4600m having the most powerful of them, the 7660g, which is about as fast as the 7670m, which is a discrete gpu. my a10 and 7660g got a 5% bump in speed from the faster ram and ssd.

the real world difference is my laptop doesn't have to feed power to a discrete gpu and thus gets much better battery life than laptops which do. plus with the low voltage ram and much lower power ssd hard drive i can get a little more than 3 hours of skyrim and about 8 hours of just standard web surfing. although admittedly i usually just plug the laptop in and output hdmi to my tv and play skyrim with a ps3 controller using motioninjoy.

 

[PyjamasCat]

Alright. So you won't be getting perfect 60FPS on medium with that laptop, but games should still be playable if you can accept 30-40ish. High settings if your lucky. There will be those games like Crysis 3 or Witcher 2 which probably won't play at all on medium and struggle on low.