Mobile gpu performance

[Simster275]

I am looming at the MSI ge62 with w gtx 965m. I believe this is like a 870m.
I was wondering why benchmarks sites seem to score laptop GPUs so low when I see people playing games like battlefield 4 on ultra at 30fps but every where says you can't?

 

[Rit_86]

Mobile GPUs are vastly underrated compared to their desktop counterparts. The reason is they have somewhat lower performance than the equivalent desktop one (since they have to work on a tighter power and thermal budget) and a laptop will always cost much more for the performance they provide than the desktop equivalent. However, if you forget about the price difference and see only on the efficiency front, you will see the laptop GPUs often outperform the desktop equivalent.
Inversely however, price is a big factor for most and if you can sacrifice the mobility, there's no denying, the desktop is superior.
Here's a comparison between the GTX 965m with the GTX 960.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/nvidia-geforce-gtx-960,4038-4.html
http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-GTX-965M.134120.0.html
You can see though the 960 is logically inferior than the 965m, its performance is much superior, not to mention the system with the 960 will be vastly cheaper than a laptop with the 965m.
So yes, mobile GPUs are very capable, but at the same time very expensive.
Anandtech came up with a good article regarding this. Read it
http://www.anandtech.com/show/7287/analyzing-the-price-of-mobility-desktops-vs-laptops

 

[Simster275]

I understand all that completely. With the gap closing slowly why benchmarks say that a mobile GPU is half to a third of a desktop GPU but there only be about a 10frames.
So I was wondering if the 965m would be able to run all games at medium to high settings? I am not looking to try to Max out games because I know that is costly and with heating plain stupid.

 

[Rit_86]

Benchmarks are not good reference points if you have practical references like games.
If you can give the reference to the site where you found your info, then I can explain it better.
For your last question, the answer will be yes, you will be able to play nearly all games in medium to high settings provided the laptop has a quad - core i7 CPU and atleast 8 gb RAM in dual channel.

 

[Simster275]

http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html
Is one site I looked at but have decided is not the best. Also had a look at 3dmark.
Fps come from sites like notebook check the link you posted and peoples YouTube.