EA recommended system specs a little weak?

[Archform]

Seem strange that my modest 700 dollar gaming laptop blow past these recommendations.
Except for my ram which is a cheap 50 buck upgrade, I seem to have way better hardware than I need. So I gotta ask how realistic are these specs?

Are they for playing at medium-high at 1080p?
What if I wanna play at 4k Ultra?

oh and my modest specs:
UserBenchmarks: Game 54%, Desk 89%, Work 45%
CPU: Intel Core i5-9300H - 81.6%
GPU: Nvidia GTX 1660-Ti (Mobile Max-Q) - 61.3%
SSD: PC SN520 NVMe WDC 512GB - 189.3%
RAM: Samsung M471A5244CB0-CTD 2x4GB - 66.7%
MBD: Dell G3 3590

[Oku]

Recommended specs are typically what the game needs to run at 1080p 60fps on high settings.

If you want to play on 4k ultra, recommended specs will never be enough to cut it. I doubt you'll be able to even make 30fps on 4k high, let alone maxed out.

[Archform]

Well for 4k I am interested in getting a new laptop, however with a 2k budget I kinda have a pretty large range of computers I can get. Not really sure what to get based on recommended alone.

Like should I get a 1200 laptop with a 300 egpu and a 500 desktop gpu?
Or would some basic 1700 laptop with 4k and a rtx 2080 max q be good enough for 4k at ultra? Hard to decide, both can be upgraded with a egpu and desktop gpu, but the 1700 would probably have a better cpu. Then again cpu's generally haven't advanced very quickly as of late. They just add more cores, the clock is mostly the same and the memory cache is rarely much of an improvement compared to the previous.

Or I could just save for a few months and buy some 4k computer. I kinda feel like that is overkill imho.

[zeromax]

Not 100% sure , but i remember them saying in an interview , they are intentionally lowering system specs just for EA , so more people and systems can try it.

[Nauzhror]

No. Zeromax, they said the system specs may lower over time, as the game becomes more optimized. They would never do what you just suggested as that would be the most scumbag thing ever. That'd mean people would but the game in EA and lose the ability to play it later on if they had a weak PC.

Also @ OP, no the specs don't seem weak, no game requires high-end specs, also your laptop doesn't blow this games recommended specs out of the water.

GTX 1060 and GTX 1660 TI Max-Q are neck and neck in performance.

i5-9300H is less than 20% faster than i7-4770K.

[Nauzhror]

Originally posted by Archform:

Or would some basic 1700 laptop with 4k and a rtx 2080 max q be good enough for 4k at ultra?

I doubt you'll find anything like that at that price. I paid $1,900ish for the laptop I am using right now, and it has a 2070 Super and a 1080P display. 2080 and 4K display is closer to $3,000.

Also eGPU's are not good ideas, at all. My 2070 Super massively outperforms even a RTX 2080 TI or RTX Titan when used as a eGPU. There are massive bottlenecks involved. If you want to game on a laptop, you need to get the best internal GPU you can get.

Which means avoiding anything max-q like the plague.

[DoM]

Originally posted by Nauzhror:

Originally posted by Archform:

Or would some basic 1700 laptop with 4k and a rtx 2080 max q be good enough for 4k at ultra?

I doubt you'll find anything like that at that price. I paid $1,900ish for the laptop I am using right now, and it has a 2070 Super and a 1080P display. 2080 and 4K display is closer to $3,000.

The prices in the US are sooo high.
I got a desktop with rtx2060 and a I5-8400 with 800 £ last year. Was about to upgrade to a 2070 super or a 2080 without so much cost, but 3xxx series is up the alley. The specs they announced are fine for bg3.

[Nauzhror]

Originally posted by ;2949250308644442924:

Originally posted by Nauzhror:

I doubt you'll find anything like that at that price. I paid $1,900ish for the laptop I am using right now, and it has a 2070 Super and a 1080P display. 2080 and 4K display is closer to $3,000.

The prices in the US are sooo high.
I got a desktop with rtx2060 and a I5-8400 with 800 £ last year. Was about to upgrade to a 2070 super or a 2080 without so much cost, but 3xxx series is up the alley. The specs are fine for bg3.

Uhh, no. US prices are far lower than almost anywhere else. Laptops just cost more than desktops. A RTX 2060 and i5-8400 together is about $500 here.

[DoM]

Originally posted by Nauzhror:

Originally posted by ;2949250308644442924:

The prices in the US are sooo high.
I got a desktop with rtx2060 and a I5-8400 with 800 £ last year. Was about to upgrade to a 2070 super or a 2080 without so much cost, but 3xxx series is up the alley. The specs are fine for bg3.

Uhh, no. US prices are far lower than almost anywhere else. Laptops just cost more than desktops. A RTX 2060 and i5-8400 together is about $500 here.

I meant the whole tower costed 800£. It's just that I hear some overpriced components here. I may be wrong then.

[Nauzhror]

800£ is $1,045. The CPU and GPU cost $500 (total, not combined, $190 CPU, $310 GPU), getting a motherboard, RAM, storage, a case, and a PSU for another $545 is very easy. Typically the US pays much less for PC hardware than most of Europe does.

[Archform]

I saw a dell rtx 2080 4k for 1800.
However for laptops max q is unavoidable.

[DoM]

What I want to know is if my old 3dfx voodoo 2 can handle it.

[Tyndaleon]

Originally posted by DoM:

What I want to know is if my old 3dfx voodoo 2 can handle it.

That's super dooper high end right there, fo sho.

[Tyndaleon]

Originally posted by DoM:

What I want to know is if my old 3dfx voodoo 2 can handle it.

Actually that brings me back....my first truly serious gaming PC back in the day I went the double-card V2 route with the SLI-like connector.

[DoM]

Originally posted by Tyndaleon:

Originally posted by DoM:

What I want to know is if my old 3dfx voodoo 2 can handle it.

Actually that brings me back....my first truly serious gaming PC back in the day I went the double-card V2 route with the SLI-like connector.

Yeah back then we gathered money with my brother for months but it was worth every penny. (There was a youtube video of someone who had 8 of them connected together)

[it's a gabe]

Well, Dell's gaming laptop line might not be high-end, but that doesn't mean your laptop is modest by any means. What I'm getting from your question is that you think the recommended requirements should be much higher because 1) it's a modern AAA game and 2) you paid $700 on your laptop, so how come it's better than what the game asks as the recommended requirements? The short answer is that Dell cut corners with the build quality so that we can pay less for more performance.

Originally posted by Archform:

Well for 4k I am interested in getting a new laptop, however with a 2k budget I kinda have a pretty large range of computers I can get. Not really sure what to get based on recommended alone.

Like should I get a 1200 laptop with a 300 egpu and a 500 desktop gpu?
Or would some basic 1700 laptop with 4k and a rtx 2080 max q be good enough for 4k at ultra? Hard to decide, both can be upgraded with a egpu and desktop gpu, but the 1700 would probably have a better cpu. Then again cpu's generally haven't advanced very quickly as of late. They just add more cores, the clock is mostly the same and the memory cache is rarely much of an improvement compared to the previous.

Or I could just save for a few months and buy some 4k computer. I kinda feel like that is overkill imho.

My advice is, don't get a computer based on the recommended specs for only one game, especially when it's gonna come out in early access first and the store page states the following:

The recommended requirements might decrease over the course of Early Access, as performance improves.

And it depends on the CPU. That price point doesn't say a whole lot since it isn't for the CPU alone. Some i5s might last, some i7s might not be all that worth it. I had someone tell me the other day that my i7 was a waste of money, for example (although, he wasn't as knowledgeable as he thought himself to be if he couldn't recognize my i7 as a laptop model, so...)

Or just go for the dekstop 🤷🏻‍♂️ Usually, people get gaming laptops because they need a computer for work/school but they also want to play games, except they need the mobility a laptop provides but can't afford both a gaming computer and a laptop that's decent enough to carry around, that's pleasant to use and can handle enough tasks at once.

If saving up for a few months to get a 4k machine is an option, does it really matter that it's "overkill" when that build is gonna last you so many years? Instead, a laptop could hold you back even if you use external GPUs, not to mention these things can break very easily depending on so many factors and maintenance can be quite expensive, whereas a desktop turns out to be much cheaper overall in the long run.