Gaming laptop that can play FF XIV

[Douchebag]

Hi I have a question. Is it possible to play final fantasy xiv on a $300-$600 laptop? If so, which laptop would that be and can u post a link?

I would like to get a smooth 60+ fps with the graphic settings maxed out. Thanks a bunch!

[Condottiere 40K]

Rumour has it next year's models will have an uplift in performance, especially with Intel and Advanced integrated graphics.

[Douchebag]

Thanks. Is there a specific model that I should look out for?

[Akar]

The recommended specs for FFXIV are incredibly low - most newly released laptops would probably be able to run it with ease.

[Ishan]

As Akar points out, any decent laptop with a GTX 1060GB can max the out of it. However it's better to wait for Intel's next release of laptop lineups with DG2 or more advanced integrated graphics with better power efficiency like Condo suggests above.

[z3n]

$300 - $600 USD? New?

I'd get something like this with an RTX 3050. It's $650 total but I think it's pretty good for what you get. Since it's brand new far as I can tell and has an RTX 3050 + i5 + SSD.
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/hp-victus-16-1-gaming-laptop-intel-core-i5-8gb-memory-nvidia-geforce-rtx-3050-256gb-ssd-performance-blue/6479080.p?skuId=6479080


You could theoretically wait, but if you just wanna buy something and don't care about a $10-$50 price difference, that laptops not bad.

[Douchebag]

Thx for the reply guys. But I was eyeing this baby right here: https://www.amazon.com/Newest-Lenovo...cx_mr_hp_atf_m

$699. But its using a integrated AMD radeon 7 graphics card. Is that good enough?

[Akar]

Personally I would never ever purchase a Lenovo product.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenovo...vacy_incidents

But yes, it is definitely good enough.

https://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compar...m1559532vs4035

The Radeon 7 looks to be a decent bit better than the laptop 3050ti.

[Condottiere 40K]

New Radeon laptop chips have been announced, it will take a while to digest the information and await reviews.

Superficially, impressive; hearsay not to be much more expensive than last year's models.

Kinda disappointed on the desktop side, but my guess is that they only need one model to get the optimum speed for the gaming crown, and the concentration will be on the next generation coming sometime in September.

[z3n]

Akar you were looking at the desktop non-integrated version of the Radeon 7. Unless I'm 100% mistaken.

Integrated solutions are never as good as discrete solutions except in exceptional circumstances. I'd advise you to stay away from any non discrete graphics card @Douchebag unless you're only interested in playing something non graphics intensive like LoL or solitaire. I dont think that's going to change anytime soon.


Unfortunately I wasn't able to quickly find good gaming benchmark proof on my phone but you can easily see the basic benchmarks here line up with what I'm saying https://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Ra....450004.0.html


Edit: yeah I checked the links, you were looking at the desktop version. Tbh it's a bit deceptive for advertising to name two things almost 100% the same. It confuses the consumer and leads them to believe something at a glance. Pretty sketchy practice.



So to be clear that laptop is *not* good enough. Although it's possible it might run on the absolute worst settings with some ini tweaks or if those devs are the Supreme masters of optimization (which usually isn't the case with an mmo other than WoW).

[Akar]

You're right, good catch z3n.

[Douchebag]

Thank you z3n and akar, guess I'll just listen to condotierres advice and wait

[Condottiere 40K]

My feeling is that Intel and Advanced have a secret conspiracy to have integrated graphics good enough for ten eighty gaming, and kick out nVidia from that segment.

Whether they have succeeded this year will have to be seen.

It looks like the new laptops are going to run a lot faster and on fifth generation memory, which helps considerably with ten eighty gaming specifically, and integrated graphics, respectively.

[Love Mountain]

My feeling is that Intel and Advanced have a secret conspiracy to have integrated graphics good enough for ten eighty gaming, and kick out nVidia from that segment.

Whether they have succeeded this year will have to be seen.

It looks like the new laptops are going to run a lot faster and on fifth generation memory, which helps considerably with ten eighty gaming specifically, and integrated graphics, respectively.

If you are willing to play on "Low", they are sufficient according to the graphs. Even Medium.

[Ishan]

My feeling is that Intel and Advanced have a secret conspiracy to have integrated graphics good enough for ten eighty gaming, and kick out nVidia from that segment.

Whether they have succeeded this year will have to be seen.

They have already succeeded. Nvidia has nothing to offer in low-mid range in laptops only heavy laptops with 3070\3080 above. Laptop users also value TDP and power efficiency and NVIDIA got wrecked in that when compared to AMD\Intel.
Recent AMD showcase was impressive in laptop launches. Will attract budget users. Intel will also follow up their trail.

[Condottiere 40K]

I've skipped over laptops for the past five years, since Tablets worked out, so what follows is speculative.

Low end are ten eighty resolution, mid range fourteen forty, and likely high end really fast fourteen forty or four kay. Fourteen forty is probably touch and go, and four kay may be overkill for mid sized laptop screens.

I think the question is when Advanced can take a console chip, make them energy efficient, and sell them to laptop manufacturers, because eight core fundamentally is the basis of all high end games, definitely for the next five years, maybe for the next ten.

Six cores work well enough, and I'm not quite sure why the Intel twelve hundred series still bothers with two core Pentium and Celerons, four core being the minimum, in my opinion, since Twenty Nineteen.

[Ishan]

Yeah quad core should be a bare minimum and dual cores should be only be in some low power portable segment.

6 core work great with 4K gaming but if the same user is into streaming and say encoding those recorded gameplay videos then he needs at least an 8 core. 1440p and 8 core CPUs are slowly becoming the norm amongst gamers.

[AoRun]

FF14 requirements is not that high. new laptops base to mid model will handle it quite well.