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[AT] Laptop Graphics Face Off: Diablo III Performance

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from AMD we have a Llano prototype with an A8-3500M APU and integrated HD 6620G graphics. There are faster clocked Llano APUs in terms of CPU performance, but by default all of the A8 GPUs run at 444MHz with 400 Radeon Cores. Second is our Trinity prototype laptop with and A10-4600M (HD 7660G graphics), running 384 Radeon Cores at a substantially higher 686MHz clock
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From the Intel camp, we tested three different laptops. On the low end of the spectrum is a Dell Vostro V131 with i5-2410M CPU and HD 3000 graphics. We also tested with a quad-core i7-2820QM and HD 3000 graphics to see how much the slightly higher IGP clocks and significantly faster CPU matter with Diablo III. The third laptop is the ASUS N56VM Ivy Bridge prototype, with an i7-3720QM CPU and HD 4000 graphics
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from NVIDIA we've got the same ASUS N56VM with i7-3720QM, only this time we've enabled the GT 630M graphics. We also ran some tests with an Acer AS3830TG that has an i5-2410M CPU with GT 540M graphics. Finally, we also have in a second Clevo W110ER in for review, this time from AVADirect, with an i7-3610QM and GT 650M graphics.
Source: Anandtech

Besides the mash up of TDP (battery life) and pricing with all these laptops, it still provides an interesting comparison of what to expect performance wise from these different combinations.
 
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Hmm.. I play on my sig rig mostly, but my late 2011 Macbook Air with i5 and HD3000 gets pretty decent frame rates on low settings.

Edit: I DO notice a drop in frame rates now that I am in the later stages of Nightmare though. On normal difficulty I had no issues though.
 
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I just tried it last night because my main card died in my rig. I was not impressed; especially after playing tons of hours on my GTX480. I even turned all the settings down. This is a new lappy i bought for school about a month ago.

Toshiba Lappy. 17.3", 1600x900, New Core i3, 4GB RAM, Intel HD3000.

KOBALT#1937
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It's settled. $550-600 AMD Trinity laptop can play Diablo 3
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. The 25W A10-4655M in Ultrathins/Sleekbooks should even outdo the A8-3500M by a little (they're about 20% slower on graphics than A10-4600M).

Maybe add this to the OP: http://www.notebookcheck.net/Diablo-III-Benchmarked.74918.0.html . It has 1366x768 low/med/high, and 1080p/high . It also has about 15 or so laptop GPUs (a lot which Anand didn't test) so it's a good complement to Anandtech's data.
 
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Originally Posted by KOBALT View Post

I just tried it last night because my main card died in my rig. I was not impressed; especially after playing tons of hours on my GTX480. I even turned all the settings down. This is a new lappy i bought for school about a month ago.
Toshiba Lappy. 17.3", 1600x900, New Core i3, 4GB RAM, Intel HD3000.
KOBALT#1937
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HD3000. there's your problem lol.
it runs pretty well on my old studio xps 1640 (C2D 2.4Ghz, AMD 4670M ) at 1600x900 ( around 30fps on average with everything on high and anti-aliasing turned off).
CPU use is minimal so I am inclined to believe - as mentioned above - that it probably scales more with frequency than with core count. Installing on my sig rig now so i'll verify that in a bit

[btw, isn't a 17" waayy to big for school? :s .... especially considering that the same specs could easily fit into a 15.6" form factor ... ]

I love how well the game runs on lower end hardware though - means a lot more people will be playing it (hopefully, even convert some casual gamers)
 
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IIRC, tons of people were claiming that the HD4K would keep up with Trinity and surpass Llano--but I think what they were going off of were CPU-limited benchmarks, running games at such low resolutions and game detail settings. Good to see a current game benchmarked at GPU-limiting settings to show what the GPU is really capable of. It's interesting to see that HD4K can't even keep up with the A8, much less the A10
 
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Originally Posted by drbaltazar View Post

unless i am mistaken ,intel have yet to release the driver for the hd 4000,it wasnt ready at ib lunch.
The HD3000 and HD4000 driver is the same, it's always had a driver, even since launch.

You'll notice that nearly all of Intel's product-lines have one driver for all the products within it. It's pretty nice, actually.
 
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HD3000. there's your problem lol.
it runs pretty well on my old studio xps 1640 (C2D 2.4Ghz, AMD 4670M ) at 1600x900 ( around 30fps on average with everything on high and anti-aliasing turned off).
CPU use is minimal so I am inclined to believe - as mentioned above - that it probably scales more with frequency than with core count. Installing on my sig rig now so i'll verify that in a bit
[btw, isn't a 17" waayy to big for school? :s .... especially considering that the same specs could easily fit into a 15.6" form factor ... ]
I love how well the game runs on lower end hardware though - means a lot more people will be playing it (hopefully, even convert some casual gamers)
I wasn't planning on gaming with it, so the GPU wasn't a issue for me. I don't think 17" is too big. I'm all about big screens as long as it's a decent resolution. If I wanted a smaller screen, I'd use my netbook
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Originally Posted by Kand View Post

Is Diablo 3 a CPU intensive game?
Nope. Sc2 is way more CPU heavy.

And i tested it. Its a nightmare to play Diablo 3 with an Intel 4000 graphics. Impossible to play 1920x1080! To sad if the Gpu cooler dies
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But with a notebook it should be fine at 1366 x 768 like the test shows.
 
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I wasn't planning on gaming with it, so the GPU wasn't a issue for me. I don't think 17" is too big. I'm all about big screens as long as it's a decent resolution. If I wanted a smaller screen, I'd use my netbook
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I hope people now understand that a balanced laptop is good to have.

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I've been trying it on my 9600m GT Macbook Pro and it kinda sucks. I get around 15FPS with everything on low.
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Originally Posted by Blk View Post

Running it fine on my laptop at 1920x1080
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Originally Posted by francesthemutes View Post

Seriously? I've got 4GB of RAM and a P8600 on my MBP and I can barely run it on low at 1440x900. :/
That is kinda hard to believe
 
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I hope people now understand that a balanced laptop is good to have.
True, but like I said. I wasn't planning on gaming with it. This was for school only. AND, for the $379 price tag, getting a 17.3", 1600x900, 4GB, Core i3 Sandy, 750GB is a pretty sweet deal. I wouldn't expect it to have anything more in the GPU dept.

My GTX480 died last night, so I just tried DIII for the heck of it. I mean, it's playable but I'm just used to everything maxed out and smoother graphics. I'm sure my buddy with his Dell PC, would think it looks fine on my laptop. I played MW2 and it wasn't too bad either. But, it was just to see and maybe feed my gaming tweaks a little.

I'd rather have the laptop I just bought along with my spare video card that I have for my main rig in such an unfortunate occasion as this
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I hope people now understand that a back-up graphics card is something you should always have for the RMA process.

(EVGA lifetime warranty FTW!)
 
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Originally Posted by KOBALT View Post

True, but like I said. I wasn't planning on gaming with it. This was for school only. AND, for the $379 price tag, getting a 17.3", 1600x900, 4GB, Core i3 Sandy, 750GB is a pretty sweet deal. I wouldn't expect it to have anything more in the GPU dept.
My GTX480 died last night, so I just tried DIII for the heck of it. I mean, it's playable but I'm just used to everything maxed out and smoother graphics. I'm sure my buddy with his Dell PC, would think it looks fine on my laptop. I played MW2 and it wasn't too bad either. But, it was just to see and maybe feed my gaming tweaks a little.
I'd rather have the laptop I just bought along with my spare video card that I have for my main rig in such an unfortunate occasion as this
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I hope people now understand that a back-up graphics card is something you should always have for the RMA process.
(EVGA lifetime warranty FTW!)
I get you.

I have a backup video card (radeon 5670) it plays BC2 very well at 1080p. I have a backup cpu (Athlon 2 x3).

When I buy laptops I would like it to do almost everything my rig can on the go.
 
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I installed it just to see how it runs on my lappy's i5 2430M + GT555M, the framerates weren't too shabby at 1600x900.

It doesn't really matter though because I don't want to subscribe to a WiFi internet service just to be able to play D3 singleplayer. Thank heavens plenty other great games can be enjoyed offline and on the move, lets hope D3 doesn't set a trend.
 
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Intel Pentium Dual Core T4200 @ 2.0GHz,
2048 MBs of RAM
Intel GMA 4500M

21 FPS average, max of 45, lowest would be 4.

I guess it's not so bad.

...minimum settings, min. res
 
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