hi all,
I have to buy a new laptop (Asus N551-JM) and I can't make up my mind between the two gpu versions. From what I understand, 4 gb are useless at 1080p, and apart from that I've always been used to lower resolutions. I'm really not a hardcore gamer and I'm happy with my oldies&goldies, the thing is, though, that I'm awaiting (the highly hypothetical) Fallout4 as well. From what I understand, the gtx 860m would in any case lack the horsepower to take advantage of 4 gb, but then again, I find people mentioning games that are already capping out the 2 gb vram (I'll quote some passages from another forum: "2GB cards are perfectly viable and useful and everything these days... but 4GB cards are going to get more useful as people are primarily coding for machines with large amounts of video RAM", "MOST high end games cap out at 2GB to 2.2GB maximum vRAM being used")
thanks for your help
I have to buy a new laptop (Asus N551-JM) and I can't make up my mind between the two gpu versions. From what I understand, 4 gb are useless at 1080p, and apart from that I've always been used to lower resolutions. I'm really not a hardcore gamer and I'm happy with my oldies&goldies, the thing is, though, that I'm awaiting (the highly hypothetical) Fallout4 as well. From what I understand, the gtx 860m would in any case lack the horsepower to take advantage of 4 gb, but then again, I find people mentioning games that are already capping out the 2 gb vram (I'll quote some passages from another forum: "2GB cards are perfectly viable and useful and everything these days... but 4GB cards are going to get more useful as people are primarily coding for machines with large amounts of video RAM", "MOST high end games cap out at 2GB to 2.2GB maximum vRAM being used")
thanks for your help