is this laptop enough to run all new games?

[b0shi]

hello again,

my current laptop is i5 10th gen, 16gb ram,2gb mx230 + intel UHD graphics... but i am looking to upgrade to run all new games ..laptop i am looking to buy has following spec, its few years old so i am asking you this question... specs below :
i7 9th gen cpu
32gb ram
rtx 2080 gpu

.. can this laptop run all new games smoothly? whats your advice.......

 

[Charagma]

I used to play games on laptops. Easy, convenient but let us think about it. Yes, nice specs on the new one, but for how long? You cannot upgrade so "what you have is ........ what you have" kind of thing and once outdated it becomes a very expensive paper weight or retires onto someone's office desk to run spreadsheets and browse the internet and if you are lucky it can still run the latest windows (Seeing MS cancel support daily now a days) and read a bit of email possibly on Gmail web view since outlook will be too advanced for it. Harsh reality.

Desktops on the other hand is upgradable. You can up on CPU, GPU, RAM and when that fails to keep up, you replace the mother board, and you are set again for a few years.

Can it run all games.... probably not. Laptops in general are prone to overheat while gaming. Currently I think Alienware has the best laptop temperatures during game play (I could be wrong here but recall something like that). So, if the game is working but you are running it at max settings, it will somewhere begin to throttle to protect the system.

From my side, give the laptop a miss and get a desktop if you are going full on gaming. Stil your choice but that is my advice.

Edit: BTW, why downgrade to Coffee lake? (Gen 9). Added if I remember correctly on Gen 9 CPU's the GPU was a renderer and shared your RAM same as your iGPU. Someone might be able to shed a bit more light on that, but looks more like a down grade as opposed to an upgrade. Only thing you are really gaining is 16Gb Ram, but the rest you are pretty much down grading. Gen 10 (Going on memory here) would have been an Intel UHD or 620, maybe even a 630 iGPU as opposed to Gen 9 was a UHD 610 or 615. Also, Gen 9 was split into two. You will need to check if it is gen9 first or second version. Both sockets are the same, but chips are not interchangeable. Think you might need to do a bit more research on this downgrade.

 

[Zloth]

Yeah, I think it can still run all new games smoothly, but you'll certainly need to turn a few options off to cover for that 2080 card.

How long does NVIDIA keep making drivers? That card is from 2018, so it has been about 7 years now.

Also, does the laptop have Windows 11? Support for Windows 10 ends in about 5 weeks.

 

[Charagma]

Yeah, I think it can still run all new games smoothly, but you'll certainly need to turn a few options off to cover for that 2080 card.

How long does NVIDIA keep making drivers? That card is from 2018, so it has been about 7 years now.

Also, does the laptop have Windows 11? Support for Windows 10 ends in about 5 weeks.

As far as I know they support for 5 years where after it moves to the "Legacy" drivers bin for another few years without support. Somewhere it moves to GitHub, and they start "hacking" or "modding" the driver.

Should be able to run Win 11. I have a 4900 (Gen9) chip and has no problem with Windows 11. All depends on if it can handle TMP. Waiting for the 25h2 version to release and rumours has it that we will be seeing Windows 12 early next year.

 

[b0shi]

reason i am upgrading is because of gpu... cpu 10th gen i5 is good but i am looking for 8gb gpu to play all the new games... current gpu is entry level 2gb gpu mx230 which is not enough for new games... so thats the reason i am upgrading..

 

[Charagma]

I do not know the model of laptop you are looking at so am going to talk about (In general here). In addition, no one can tell you it will run all games because I have seen some crazy builds struggling to play some games and I have seen old machines able to play games they are not supposed to be able to. But let's go into the technical side here.

The new laptop has an RTX 2080 and you say 8GB. In general, this 8GB is Shared so will come from the 32GB RAM you have. This will give you 24GB RAM (Left) and then 8GB on your GPU. The iGPU will also take a slice on this but you can drop that down to maybe 2GB in the BIOS. Leaves you with 22GB RAM.

General games specs I have seen is between 8GB and 21GB RAM (Yes saw one that recommends 21GB RAM). So, from a RAM point of view, you are within spec. GPU, there is actually so many tweaks you can do if it runs a bit short, but 8GB GPU will be withing gaming specs. You might have to switch of some things just for Thermal purposes. DDR on a Gen9 will be DDR4. The motherboard should be able to do 2666 and up so on DDR you should be fine. Windows 11 should be able to run on it. As far as I recall CPU's 8th GEN and up is supported by Windows 11. The new 25h2 should release soon (Next month or two) and would think that it will still be fine on that one. Windows 12, everyone says MS will be upping the minimum specs, so if it can go higher than Win 11 I cannot say.

So, from a technical point of view, you have a good chance to play many of the new games.

 

[b0shi]

current laptop model is dell inspiron 5593 and the one i am looking to buy is MSI stealth GS65 9SG slim gaming laptop...