Best laptop graphics chipsets

The mind of a true gamer, when in the market for a laptop, immediately jumps to thoughts of gaming performance.

There are a number of factors that will affect a laptop’s overall performance, not least of all its thermal design, but the best indicator of how much gaming grunt you’re going to get comes from the GPU specs.

The fine reviewing folks over at NotebookCheck have produced a chart listing the best laptop GPUs of the now, based on specs and benchmark performance.

I’ve removed the SLI and CrossFire configurations, because we want to know which are the best single GPUs. The list below shows laptop GPU chips ordered from best, to not quite the best.

GPU	Architecture	Pixel/vertex shaders	Core speed (MHz)	GRAM speed (MHz)	Memory bus	3DMark Ice Storm GPU	3DMark11 P GPU
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 880M	Kepler	1536	954	5000	256	1843752	84512
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M	Kepler	1536	823	5000	256	1189507	7776.58
NVIDIA Quadro K5100M	Kepler	1536	771	3600	256	137763	7148
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX	Kepler	1536	720	5000	256		6736
AMD Radeon R9 M290X	GCN	1280	850 – 900	4800	256	125311	6817
AMD Radeon HD 8970M	GCN	1280	850 – 900	4800	256	1101272	68183
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M	Kepler	1344	941	5000	192	187697	7270
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M	Kepler	1344	720	3600	256	1104722	5897.56
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 775M*	Kepler	1344	719	3600	256
AMD Radeon HD 7970M	GCN	1280	850	4800	256	149561	56457
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M	Maxwell	640	1029	5000	128	1126982	49463
NVIDIA Quadro K4100M	Kepler	1152	706	3200	256
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770M	Kepler	960	811	4000	192	1268439	48899
NVIDIA Quadro K5000M	Kepler	1344	706	3000	256	1559462	48933
AMD FirePro M6100	GCN	768	1075	5500	128		5117
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M*	Maxwell	640	876	5000	128
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 675MX	Kepler	960	600	3600	256	136430	3978.52
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 765M	Kepler	768	850	4000	128	11563211	401913
NVIDIA Quadro K4000M	Kepler	960	600	2800	256	150781	34662
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 675M	Fermi	384	620	3000	256	112378	32185