i7 GtX 860 vs i5 GTX 880

[JTOG]

For budget purposes I could get either a gaming laptop with:
i5-4210M processor 8GB Dual Channel DDR3L GTX 880M graphics with 8GB total GDDR5 or
i7-4710MQ processor 16GB DDR3L at 1600MHz GTX 860M graphics with 2Gb GDDR5
Using it for gaming. WoW Various first person shooters.

 

[closetwhisperer1]

The i5 and 880 will destroy the i7 and 860 by a long shot! I7 has no measurable gaming gains over an I5.

 

[Sleepyhead Media]

i5 is perfect for gamming unless your editing or have the money to blow, i would'nt go with the i7.
for gamming that GTX 880M will do you more good than an i7, but that's for gamming!

I'm more of an editor so i would choose the i7/16GB/GTX860M.
I would take this because of the 16GB of RAM, and the i7-4719MQ, but! if you think about it, your wasting your money on 8GB of VRAM on the GTX880M, at 1080p maxed out settings on a stock game (not modded) your hitting 2GB of VRAM most likely, so you in theory have 6GB of wasted VRAM.

like i said i would take the i7 version, especially if they are the same price.. and even more so if the i-5 costs more.

GoodLuck with your BUY!

 

[closetwhisperer1]

i5 is perfect for gamming unless your editing or have the money to blow, i would'nt go with the i7.
for gamming that GTX 880M will do you more good than an i7, but that's for gamming!

I'm more of an editor so i would choose the i7/16GB/GTX860M.
I would take this because of the 16GB of RAM, and the i7-4719MQ, but! if you think about it, your wasting your money on 8GB of VRAM on the GTX880M, at 1080p maxed out settings on a stock game (not modded) your hitting 2GB of VRAM most likely, so you in theory have 6GB of wasted VRAM.

like i said i would take the i7 version, especially if they are the same price.. and even more so if the i-5 costs more.

GoodLuck with your BUY!

True, but he said he wanted it for gaming. Plus I think that the laptop has sli 880s if it has 8gb vram total- 2 4gb gpus. Also more and more games are using more than 2gb of vram at 1080p. Aka watchdogs- Battlefield 4.

 

[Sleepyhead Media]

i5 is perfect for gamming unless your editing or have the money to blow, i would'nt go with the i7.
for gamming that GTX 880M will do you more good than an i7, but that's for gamming!

I'm more of an editor so i would choose the i7/16GB/GTX860M.
I would take this because of the 16GB of RAM, and the i7-4719MQ, but! if you think about it, your wasting your money on 8GB of VRAM on the GTX880M, at 1080p maxed out settings on a stock game (not modded) your hitting 2GB of VRAM most likely, so you in theory have 6GB of wasted VRAM.

like i said i would take the i7 version, especially if they are the same price.. and even more so if the i-5 costs more.

GoodLuck with your BUY!

True, but he said he wanted it for gaming. Plus I think that the laptop has sli 880s if it has 8gb vram total- 2 4gb gpus. Also more and more games are using more than 2gb of vram at 1080p. Aka watchdogs- Battlefield 4.

VRAM dosent stack, so if there are two 4GB GPU's in SLI, it would stay 4GB.
so now that we know it's not 8GB's your watsing your money on, go for the i5 GTX 880 friend, its best for your gamming.

 

[JTOG]

Much appreciate the advice!!!

 

[Ytyoussef]

However, in this case the i7 is a quad core processor, the i5 is only dual core. I would still go with the 880M for the better gaming performance, but was just pointing that out.