What graphics card is in this machine?

[C O R P S E Y]

The website says "NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX GPU 2GB GDDR5" - which is not nearly specific enough. A friend is interested in buying, and I'm trying to advise him, but I can't with this little info.

[Empreus]

it's comparable to a GeForce GTX 750i or an 860m

[C O R P S E Y]

Ouch . . . it should have a GTX 770 at least. Sounds like it's hitting the ground already pretty far behind. Think I'll have to advise against getting these things. Damn shame too.

[☴ Yata᠌ ⁧⁧garasu–]

It was just a few topics below

Originally posted by Alienware:

Unfortunately, the current model is soldered to the board. The card uses the same chipset as the 860m, but has been modified.

It benchmarks at roughly the same marks as a GTX 750 TI.

[AGENTMOO]

Originally posted by Belial:

Ouch . . . it should have a GTX 770 at least. Sounds like it's hitting the ground already pretty far behind. Think I'll have to advise against getting these things. Damn shame too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxX5kf6VBec

Ya totes "far behind".

[AEG Jotaku]

Alienware Steam machine they all equips tweaked gtx850m that has similar performance as gtx 750 ti for all model. I guess you will highly in need of upgrade within 2 years with that mobile gpu, but with this machine you can't upgrade gpu.

Why don't alienware release just bigger-sized steam machine? So that it become gpu upgrade-able and have desktop's stronger gpu at similar cost...

Even ps4 and xbox one, both are bigger than current alienware steam machine. It illustrates that if the case design is beautiful just like ps4 or xbox, size really doesn't matter. And we have Steam Link as well.

[C O R P S E Y]

Originally posted by AGENTMOO:

Originally posted by Belial:

Ouch . . . it should have a GTX 770 at least. Sounds like it's hitting the ground already pretty far behind. Think I'll have to advise against getting these things. Damn shame too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxX5kf6VBec

Ya totes "far behind".

Haha, one report of one game working well, bravo. If you pay attention to reviewers, most games people have to turn down to Low / Medium settings. Battlefront, is very well optimized, and is the exception, not the average experience.

[SHREDDER]

Βiut battlefront needs a 970 like mine 970 g1 gaming to run max settings. so stiill alienwarware will not run it maxed. Irecomend you to ger the Zotac or the Origin steam machine

https://www.zotac.com/product/mini_pcs/nen-steam-machine
https://www.originpc.com/gaming/desktops/omega/

because they are fuly upgrateble unlike Alienware. Even a 980 ti can be put into those steam machines

[AGENTMOO]

Originally posted by Belial:

Originally posted by AGENTMOO:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxX5kf6VBec

Ya totes "far behind".

Haha, one report of one game working well, bravo. If you pay attention to reviewers, most games people have to turn down to Low / Medium settings. Battlefront, is very well optimized, and is the exception, not the average experience.

Yup the "only exception".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gE0IAFGOLU4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6Oh7J0M0Jc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpI2_LoKJkY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTj6o-cDP0U

It will play any game out there right now. It destroys PS4 and Xbone like it was meant to.
Next years games will be made for directx12 which will see the i7 and i5 versions do better than the i3. Games like Mass effect 4 (Holiday 2016) are being made to run for PS4 and Xbone. In two to three years Hardware will have leaped considerably (VR) hard to say what the situation will be then. New 3D card expansion ports (PCIE32?) possibly requiring new mobo's. New mobo probably means new chip, new ram, new vid card.


Ya just checked that PCIe thing I said and...

PCI Express 4.0[edit]
On November 29, 2011, PCI-SIG announced PCI Express 4.0,[40] providing a 16 GT/s bit rate that doubles the bandwidth provided by PCI Express 3.0, while maintaining backward and forward compatibility in both software support and used mechanical interface. Additionally, active and idle power optimizations are to be investigated. Final specifications are expected to be released in 2017.[41][42]

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_Express#PCI_Express_4.0

Looks like I might be wrong about needing to buy new stuff lol. But it will be the last PCI.

http://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/anton-shilov/pci-express-4-0-with-16gts-data-rates-and-new-connector-to-be-finalized-by-2017/



**and upon further digging I find the future is harder to predict than just a new PCI slot. Might need a new mobo (ect.) after all...

http://wccftech.com/nvidia-pascal-nvlink-200-gbs-interconnect-hbm2-stacked-memory-1-tbs-bandwidth-powering-hpc-2016/

http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/916373-pc/71755957?page=1

[SepticBurrito]

Originally posted by twitch.tv/eSportsKorea:

gtx850m

I've seen you on this board a lot. Your post history about steam machines goes back a long time. You have been corrected a lot.

It's not an 850m. Quit saying it is.

[Sandman]

Originally posted by Chaotic Zombie:

The website says "NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX GPU 2GB GDDR5" - which is not nearly specific enough. A friend is interested in buying, and I'm trying to advise him, but I can't with this little info.

It runs Dayz with about 30-60fps 20-40 in towns with a 8gb ram upgrade