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8845HS/780m AMD Laptops with soldered 16g of RAM....can you game?

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HeadRusch

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Really quick question to anyone who's got a low profile laptop with a 680m or 780m-equipped APU from AMD......so the mobile chip family with iGPU's, is it possible to run more modern games like Batman Arkham, RDR2 and FH5 on a combined system ram of 16gb at 1080p with 'reasonable' settings?

I ask because the chipset is capable of this, I'd argue with faster soldered ram its mroe like 60fps at low/medium...30fps at medium/high capable (again, broad strokes, many/most games particularly as we go back in time)...............


I'm looking to buy a laptop under $500 bones, it wont be a daily driver but I'll be damned if I'm going to buy something that won't at least game a bit.


AMD 6800H's are available with larger ram counts and the 680m in that is 'good enough' even limited to 45w......but if I can get an 8000 series with the 780m, but 16gb only (lots of slim laptops take this route)......I'd prefer it. But that 16gigs.....hem, haw.


Anyone have hardware like this already or a mini PC with 16g? Thanks in advance.
 
Are you specifically looking for soldered memory? There are plenty of 8745, 8845, and 8945 based mini PC's on amazon for ~$500 (or less as barebones), but they have regular DDR5 sodimms.
 
Ah, no, here's where that came from: I'm trying to get the bang for the buck in the sub $500. The 6800h + 680M with 4800Mhz ram is going to deliver 10% to sometimes 20% less performance than a 780m running with 6000mhz ram, and it doesn't support frame-gen like the 780's can (which is a nice to have but these are barely-60fps parts to begin with so...well, its there anyhow).

The 780's I'm finding under $500 are all 16gigs soldered, which makes me think that's why they are cheap, that's it's achillies heel.

I was just wondering if anyone had a 16gig laptop with an igpu that they actually used for more than, say, "Super Meat Boy" or other lightweight Indie games.......and actually played FOrza Horizon or RDR2 (possibly at locked 30fps with settings medium/High+) and did they run into any real slam-dunk performance issues,, like "Forget it.....you'll be limited to 720p medium before you run out of RAM because Windows 11 is a hog" etc. I'd already be looking to strip down Win11 to a minimalist build (This won't be my direct use laptop so I can't jsut throw like Bazzite or Steam OS on there and go Linux)........etc.

Thx for the question.
 
I'm probably putting more angst into this than I really need to..I've watched a view videos and it seems like, when it actually matters, the 16gig limitation takes some of the gains away from having the faster ram and the slightly-faster part refresh of the 780m over the 680m which, at the same ram clockspeed, is a 5fps uplift on average with some slightly better 1%'s.

Hem, Haw continues.....
 
Just to cap this thread, I decided to bite the bullet on a 6900HX with 16g of DDR5 and a 512g SSD, because that's the one that got the price down to $410 on Fleabay......direct from manufacturer in China/Amazon but at these prices I figured that was pretty obvious, Lenovo wants to sell you a Celeron at $500 bones. Technically this chip should run faster than my 7735hs by a half-step, but for me its more of a "has all I need, price is right" (even after taxes I'm under $470) and I hit my budget. And, that DDR5 is upgradable.
 
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Just to cap this thread, I decided to bite the bullet on a 6900HX with 16g of DDR5 and a 512g SSD, because that's the one that got the price down to $410 on Fleabay......direct from manufacturer in China/Amazon but at these prices I figured that was pretty obvious, Lenovo wants to sell you a Celeron at $500 bones. Technically this chip should run faster than my 7735hs by a half-step, but for me its more of a "has all I need, price is right" (even after taxes I'm under $470) and I hit my budget. And, that DDR5 is upgradable.
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With memory and SSD, that's a pretty good price. Most of the 780m mini pcs only get under $500 in barebone form. Complete systems are $520-600. 7940HS systems kind of split the difference.
 
Agreed, but I needed this to be a laptop, not a Mini.

I own a mini, using it now, 7735 with the 680m, works amazing.....if I could have gone with a mini, we'd be having a different conversation :)

So for laptop.....I figure I did ok.
 
I missed the laptop part. Yeah, that's a really good price for a 6900HX laptop.
 
No worries, easy to miss in this price point with these APU's we're throwing around.
 
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