Buying a 1080p pascal laptop and trying to figure out if I want a 1060 or 1070. I have a 780 in my desktop at home, so I’m basically just looking to replace that entire desktop with a laptop at this point and want something that’ll run better than the 780.
Mostly play games like WoW, R6 Siege, Doom, going to get Gears of War when it comes out, etc.
Not sure if the 1060 would keep up. I have the money to blow on a 1070 computer, but I could save that and put it towards something else if the 1060 would work fine.
Yeah I'm not too concerned with 4k. Just want the GPU muscle to push GoW when it comes out.
Well I've got my second baby on the way so I'd rather be in the living room if I want to play some games where I can pause/help my wife instead of her having to yell for me and waking the other kid or whatever.
I think it boils down to the resolution you want on your laptop, and size. The 1060 based laptops can get pretty thin and light. If you're doing 1080p resolution gaming, that should be a nice setup.
The bigger laptops are sort of ridiculous. More like portable workstations than laptops.
I'd go with a 1060 based laptop. It should be adequate for most gaming, unless you are like pro or something... in which case you wouldn't be asking.
I ended up going with the 1070 since I'm using this as a workstation replacement. It was either spend $2k on 1080p with gsync and IPS or $2k on 1060 and 4k. I didn't care for the 4k part on that small a screen and felt like the $350 was worth the cost up from a base model 1060 so went with it. Also the 1070 came with a stock pcie m2 so that's nice.
I sold my motorcycle today so I'll probably buy a 4k monitor anyway.