How well does my laptop compete against next-gen?

Have a Asus N550JK

Specs are

8gigs ram - I7-4700HQ - GTX 850M

My guess its a little worse then XboxOne/Ps4?

Kinda close I'd say

http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-GTX-850M.107795.0.html

The gpu performance is no where near "next gen"

the GTX 850m is on par with GTX 460

Not that great. Now if it was an 860m you'd be rocking a laptop better then a ps4 but since it's just a 850m your somewhat below it.

It will do fine but not forever though

It looks to be a roughly XBone-class gpu. Unlike most console games though, you can simply drop resolution and/or setting if performance dips below 30fps.

F*** You! =[

That childish outburst was uncalled for.

The 850m is closer to a GTX 570 and better than my GTX 560 Ti. At 1080p, it is kind of dated. Otherwise, I wouldn't be replacing my GTX 560 Ti soon.

Oh my goodness, it seems I can't even joke around on Gamespot anymore without people getting angry. It was a JOKE, I am currently running a GTX 460 and I know how out-dated it is, and he just reminded me... so for a joke I said that... perhaps comedy isn't for me.

@ribstaylor1: why???, why does almost everyone think that a gtx 860M is so much better than a gtx 850M???

A gtx 850m is a gtx 860m, the only different is that the gtx 850m has ddr3 while the gtx 860m has gddr5 and yes, you can get a 850 with gddr5....

That said, almost any gtx on the market is better than a ps4/xbox one.

Now, some may have looked at benchmarks and seen that ps4... has more fps in a game than a gtx 850m, that's because the ps4/xbox ones settings is set to medium or low... or the game was not made for pc in the first place (ac unity).

That said, i have a laptop with a gtx 850m and there is no game that i can't run.

@fava098: I based my posts mostly off what I saw from a couple of benchmark sites and comparisons of other cards in the same range that I know the ps4 works within. Never said it was a bad it will run everything just fine, just not great settings, and it would probably be best to stay at 720 or 762p. The laptop isn't bad though, and should hold it's weight against the wii u and xbox one.

I'll put it this way. That laptop is better spec wise, then a $$3000 dollar macbook minus 8gb ram. You have one first hand, how is general performance what are the settings you generally stay within?

I know this is digging up the dead. But, I should apologize.

Sorry. It's hard to perceive jesting without facial expressions and tone of voice........ ;-)

Anway, notebookcheck.net has the GTX 850m almost directly equivalent to a GTX 560 Ti. It's much better than my GTX 660m which is a hair shy of an HD 5770.

Not bad, I'd say you are on par with current gen consoles (though if thats a good thing...eeeehhhhhhhh)

Too bad most laptops have 1080p screens. If the TC played games at 1366x768, the GTX 850m should be able to play all current PC games just fine. Well, the TC could. But, he'd have upscaling to deal with.

@jun_aka_pekto: Heh I had completely forgotten about this, but honestly you don't need to apologise and I do respect that a lot that you did (I should have been more clear with my message myself). But do you want to know what the really funny part is? I'm still running a 1GB GTX 460 xD.

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In theory the GTX850M is only slightly lesser than the PS4/XO GPU since they have cards equilivant to the GTX660 but you will never get the same framerates as PS4/XO with such card for new games. The GTX850M and 860M are mid range cards which can only run current games at low-mid settings, I use my Alienware 13" which has a 860 to play games released prior to 2013 and it handles reasonably well.

@kraken2109: ok