Nvidia makes the
vast majority of its "gaming" laptop sales from midrange and lower GPUs (think 960M down to 930M, currently). They aren't dumb enough to abandon those markets, or raise the prices within them. The GTX 960M and 860M dominated because they could be had between $800 and $1k.
As far as the high end, again, they aren't going to abandon the 970M to 980M price range either, which is $1200 to $1999, and I know this because the manufacturers simply won't let them. The GTX 980 laptops were an extreme niche within an extreme niche, one which cannot sustain profitability for Nvidia
or the laptop makers. It will still exist, but it'll never be their focal point. If the 1080 and 1070 are coming mobile, they'll either:
1. Be super expensive and niche like the GTX 980, and we'll still see 980M/970M-like cut down versions for the typical gaming laptop price range, the latter being sometthing which won't happen, according to PC Gamer.
2. They'll come down and have the more realistic 980M/970M-like pricing. This seems like the more plausible of the two scenarios.
I'm also unconvinced that they're completely dropping the 'M' nomenclature. Gonna need more sources on that. But I mean, it would make sense. The GTX 580M was a full GTX 560 Ti, the GTX 680M was a full GTX 670, the GTX 780M was a full GTX 770. Why not just name them as such?
I don't think it's the death of MXM, either. All of the above cards were MXM, so the new ones might as well be too, as it's much easier and cost effective for the laptop makers to have modular slots instead of GPUs soldered to motherboard. That's why Nvidia created the MXM standard in the first place. Now is it the death of our current
MXM 3.0, is a good question.
So deciding between these two:
Chassis & Display
Octane Series: 15.6" Matte Full HD IPS LED Widescreen (1920x1080)
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Corei7 Quad Core Processor i7-6700 (3.4GHz) 8MB Cache
Memory (RAM)
16GB HyperX IMPACT 2133MHz SODIMM DDR4 (2 x 8GB)
Graphics Card
NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 970M - 6.0GB DDR5 Video RAM, DirectX® 12, G-SYNC
Memory - Hard Disk
1TB SERIAL ATA II 2.5" HARD DRIVE WITH 8MB CACHE (5,400rpm)
Or
Chassis & Display
Defiance Series: 17.3" Matte Full HD IPS LED Widescreen (1920x1080)
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core i7 Quad Core Processor 6700HQ (2.6GHz, 3.5GHz Turbo)
Memory (RAM)
16GB HyperX IMPACT 2133MHz SODIMM DDR4 (2 x 8GB)
Graphics Card
NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 970M - 6.0GB DDR5 Video RAM - DirectX® 12
Memory - Hard Disk
1TB WD SLIM BLUE 2.5" WD10SPCX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 16MB CACHE (5400 rpm)
Deciding 15" vs 17" seems to be the relevant factor, outside of the 15" having a desktop CPU and G-Sync. I'd probably take faster CPU and G-Sync over the larger screen.
p.s. - get yourself an SSD bruv.
Hi everyone, I had a quick chat with my brother and he wants to get an affordable Laptop to play DOTA 2, so here's what he is looking for
Country where it will be purchased = Oman, Middle East
Maximum budget = Not that major a factor, but it depends on models recommended
Max size = 15"
Planned usage = Play DOTA 2 @ Highest settings+60 FPS, and for watching videos.
My brother has these games too so a laptop that can run DOTA 2 and these at highest settings would be appreciated as well:
Saint's Row 3, Rise of Nations, Metro 2033, Brink, Darksiders 1, Company of Heroes
Most importantly though is having DOTA 2 running at peak performance since his old lappy is driving him whacko when playing it
Thanks in advance for the suggestions.
A GTX 960M will smash DOTA 2.
