- Mar 30, 2014
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So I'm looking for a gaming laptop, and my budget is around 1,200$ max, and alot of the laptops that I've been looking at have one of these two cards in it.
The thing is, if a laptop has the M290X in it, it's paired with an A10 CPU. And if it has a 860M in it, it's paired with an i7-4710MQ. If I had a choice, I would easily pick the i7 hands down, but when I was looking at the 3D mark comparisons, the laptops with the A10 and the M290X in them had around 24,000 as their score, while the ones with the 860M and the i7-4710MQ in them had a 3D score of only 19,500. I'm planning on using the laptop for heavy gaming, but it would be plugged in 99% of the time, so battery isn't really a concern. I was going to go with the 860M one hands down because of the i7, but when I saw the 3D score differences, I thought I should ask a community of people who know something about it. I'm planning on playing games such as BF4, CoD Ghosts, GW2 and TitanFall (Especially TitanFall) I was wondering which would give me the best performance and why.
The laptops I was looking at can be found here:
M290X one- http://www.xoticpc.com/msi-gx60-3be240us-limited-availability-p-6157.html
860M one- http://www.xoticpc.com/sager-np8268-clevo-p150sma-p-6986.html
The 860M also has 4GB of Vram while the 290x only has 2GB, I don't know if that matters at all ( I don't plan on having it plugged into a monitor very often)
The thing is, if a laptop has the M290X in it, it's paired with an A10 CPU. And if it has a 860M in it, it's paired with an i7-4710MQ. If I had a choice, I would easily pick the i7 hands down, but when I was looking at the 3D mark comparisons, the laptops with the A10 and the M290X in them had around 24,000 as their score, while the ones with the 860M and the i7-4710MQ in them had a 3D score of only 19,500. I'm planning on using the laptop for heavy gaming, but it would be plugged in 99% of the time, so battery isn't really a concern. I was going to go with the 860M one hands down because of the i7, but when I saw the 3D score differences, I thought I should ask a community of people who know something about it. I'm planning on playing games such as BF4, CoD Ghosts, GW2 and TitanFall (Especially TitanFall) I was wondering which would give me the best performance and why.
The laptops I was looking at can be found here:
M290X one- http://www.xoticpc.com/msi-gx60-3be240us-limited-availability-p-6157.html
860M one- http://www.xoticpc.com/sager-np8268-clevo-p150sma-p-6986.html
The 860M also has 4GB of Vram while the 290x only has 2GB, I don't know if that matters at all ( I don't plan on having it plugged into a monitor very often)
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