GTX 1060 6GB or GTX 1050 ti 4GB

[MikkelRH]

So im thinking about buying a laptop the choices i have is one with the following specs:

CPU: Intel core i7 7700HQ
GPU: GeForce GTX 1050 ti
Memory: 8 GB DDR4
Storage: 128 GB SSD and 1 TB HDD
Screen: Matte FHD Display

Or this one which is $150 more exspensive:

CPU: Intel core i7 7700HQ
GPU: GeForce GTX 1060 6GB
Memory: 8 GB DDR4
Storage: 128 GB SSD and 1 TB HDD
Screen: Matte IPS FHD Display

Which one should i get, i plan on using it for gaming.

 

[JackNaylorPE]

The 1060 is substantially faster ... I have no way to judge the relative worth of the monitors as insufficient data available but hazarding a guess, in this price range, Id consider IPS a disadvantage.

 

[atljsf]

since it is a laptop, you can't upgrade the gpu, so i would get the 1060, the 1050ti is good but can't be compared to the 1060

try to get 16 gbs of ram to make it futureproof

 

[atomicWAR]

With a laptop you are stuck with the GPU you get, unless you have usb 3.1/thunderbolt and buy an external gpu housing and new gpu. But even then you have to be hooked up at home to have said power. Point being with a laptop you should buy the best GPU you can afford because your going to be stuck with it for sure on the road and as mentioned earlier tethered to a external gpu if you want more performance. go for the GTX 1060 you won't regret it. It is a far better GPU then the GTX 1050 Ti

 

[JackNaylorPE]

Laptop GPUs can in fact be upgraded... as in just about any other part... trick is in avoiding the mass market sellers and buying machines custom built your your needs. The lower you go in proce tho ... the lesser options are available

https/lpc-digital.com/product/sager-np9152-clevo-p750dm2/

Down at the 1060

https/lpc-digital.com/product/sager-np8155/

15.6” Full HD (1920 x 1080) Clear IPS Matte Display
7th Generation Intel® Core™ i7-7700HQ (6M Cache, up to 3.80 GHz)
NVIDIA® GeForce™ GTX 1060 GPU with 3GB GDDR5 NVIDIA PASCAL™
Standard Clevo Thermal Compound
8GB DDR4 PC4 2400MHz (PC4 19200) Memory (1 x 8GB)
1 TB HGST 7200 RPM SATA 6Gb/s Hard Drive
Intel® Dual Band Ultra Wireless - AC 8265 M.2 + Bluetooth 4.2 Combo
LIFETIME Limited Labor and 1 Year Premium** Parts Warranty
FREE UPS Ground (CONUS Only)
Total 1,095.13

Recommended Options:
Windows® 10 Home 64-Bit Edition Preinstalled, (without Recovery Media) +$70
16GB Dual Channel DDR4 PC4 2400MHz (PC4 19200) Memory (2 x 8GB) +$75
SanDisk X400 256GB M.2 SSD - Primary C Drive +$110
Cash Price: $1,342.48

-I pay by check to get the cash price
-Those are lowest prices that any Clevo distributor can advertise, all prices are negotiable.

Never heard of Clevo ? In al likelihood, nobody ever heard of the folks who actually **make** the just about any laptop they've ever heard of (other than MSI).

The vast majority of laptops on the market are manufactured by a small handful of Taiwan-based Original Design Manufacturers (ODM), although their production bases are located mostly in mainland China. Major relationships include:

Quanta sells to (among others) HP, Lenovo, Apple, Acer, Toshiba, Dell, Sony, Fujitsu and NEC
Compal sells to (among others) Acer, Dell, Toshiba, Lenovo and HP/Compaq
Wistron (former manufacturing & design division of Acer) sells to Dell, Acer, Lenovo and HP
Inventec sells to Toshiba, HP, Dell and Lenovo
Pegatron sells to Asus, Toshiba, Apple, Dell and Acer
Foxconn sells to Asus, Dell, HP and Apple
Flextronics (former Arima Computer Corporation notebook division) sells to HP
Clevo sells thru its retail arm Sager and most boutique laptop s hops like Voodoo PC, FalconNorthwest, WindowPC and pre-Dell, all Alienware laptps were made by Clevo.

http/forum.notebookreview.com/threads/clevo-guide-v2-0-faq-and-reseller-info.91510/

CLEVO is a large Taiwanese computer company specializing in laptops. While the Clevo brand name is perhaps not widely known, their products are re-branded and sold by known boutique brand OEMs (Original Equipment Manufacturers); notably Sager, VoodooPC, Falcon Northwest, Eurocom, etc. They are also considered (by whoever knows about notebooks) to design and manufacturer the best of the best notebooks in terms of superior build quality and innovative designs.

 

[atomicWAR]

^JackNaylorPE

This is very true. Most folks don't buy upgradable ones though. You can get a Clevo or some barebones build that uses MXM that does allow for new gpus but you must be careful to ensure the laptop in question does allow for gpu upgrades. So if the OP wants to go through that kind of trouble it is possible just not very easy nor as cheap as a soldered on solution like MSI/ASUS would be.

 

[TJ Hooker]

The thing is, even if a laptop is upgradeable, you still need to be able to get an MXM card to upgrade to. I don't know much about it, but I do vaguely remember reading that finding (compatible) MXM cards can be hard. I think there was one line of laptops by a major brand (like MSI or something) that featured upgradable GPUs, but when Nvidia's next GPU generation came out none of them were available as MXM cards, or at least not ones that worked with those laptops. So everyone expecting to be able to upgrade was screwed.

Like I said, I know little about laptops with upgradeable GPUs, but it seems a little iffy...

 

[atomicWAR]

^TJ hooker

This is also true thus the reason I brought up going through the trouble. It is tough upgrading laptop GPUs even when they are meant to be save a couple models.