I've recently seen this laptop on sale that I wanted to buy, I decided to male this post before deciding to buy it, I will also be using it as my college laptop.

It's an acer laptop with the following specs: 

i7 8750h (6 cores, turbo 3.9ghz all cores, 4.1ghz 1 core)

Gtx 1060 6gb

16gb ram

I'm making this post not for reccomendations, but for replies that state how much fps I'll get or if it's good or not

The add-ons are as follows:

QW 787

PMDG 777 AND 737

AEROSOFT SCENERIES

FTX GLOBAL VECTOR

BLACKMARBLE NIGHT LIGHTING

Unless someone has a very similar system you're not going to get a definitive answer on FPS. It will definitely run P3D but you will need to keep your settings lowish to get decent framerates, the GTX1060M is on the slow side.

Aerosoft sceneries and PMDG aircraft are both very heavy on FPS, as is any night lighting.

You should consider getting FTX Global Base because the terrain textures that ship with P3D are the same ones in FSX, i.e. low resolution and horrid. The make a big difference to how the world looks.

Usually you shouldn't go wrong with it. Another important factor regarding performance is cooling of the CPU and GPU. A common problem with notebooks, which leads to significant throttling especially with your demanding addons. Hexacore is not an advantage yet with flight simulation, only single core performance decides about your fps etc.. 

Laptops are not ideal for gaming, you pay a lot more for the same level of performance and you have very limited upgrade options after purchase. And as Pegaso said, they tend to overheat. But obviously sometimes you don't have a choice and you need the portability.

P3D is much better than FSX at utilising multiple cores but it's still not going to use all 6 and it's still very clocks speed dependent, 4.1 GHz is not all that fast. You will probably find yourself bottlenecked by the graphics card on that machine, rather than the processor.

ACER has good offerings for laptops with the GTX 1080 GPU with 8 GB video memory and resolutions up to 4K. Look for Predator 17X for example, a bit expensive, but I think it will do the job.

Cheers, Ed

2 hours ago, ckyliu said:

Laptops are not ideal for gaming, you pay a lot more for the same level of performance and you have very limited upgrade options after purchase. And as Pegaso said, they tend to overheat. But obviously sometimes you don't have a choice and you need the portability.

P3D is much better than FSX at utilising multiple cores but it's still not going to use all 6 and it's still very clocks speed dependent, 4.1 GHz is not all that fast. You will probably find yourself bottlenecked by the graphics card on that machine, rather than the processor.

 

2 hours ago, edpatino said:

ACER has good offerings for laptops with the GTX 1080 GPU with 8 GB video memory and resolutions up to 4K. Look for Predator 17X for example, a bit expensive, but I think it will do the job.

Cheers, Ed

 

3 hours ago, Pegaso said:

Usually you shouldn't go wrong with it. Another important factor regarding performance is cooling of the CPU and GPU. A common problem with notebooks, which leads to significant throttling especially with your demanding addons. Hexacore is not an advantage yet with flight simulation, only single core performance decides about your fps etc.. 

 

Would I get better performance on a laptop with a gtx 1070?

Undoubted

Edited July 13, 20187 yr by ckyliu

I've got the MSI Gt73. I7=7700hq, nvida 1070, 16 gigs ram, M.2 drives etc.

Runs P3dV4, DCS etc very good. This is using a 34" Dell ultrasharp 3415 montor at max resolution.

A 1070 will work fine. That said if your budget handles it I would go for a 1080 simply for future proofing.

I've been using laptops for flight simming since 2002. One thing I've learned is buy as much horsepower as you can to get the most useful life out of it from a power perspective. Also having a 2nd power supply is a good idea. I keep one plugged in on my desk at home and the 2nd in my travel bag.

Dave