RTX 4xxx laptops aren't going to move VRAM up at his price point I'm guessing. The lowest end goes up from 4GB->6GB and 6GB->8GB. Greater than 8GB is reserved for the 4080 and 4090 SKUs which I guess will be quite expensive.
Haven't really been able to discuss this also due to the subforum being locked but with DLSS 3 (the defining gaming feature for Ada) so far only tested on very high VRAM cards it hasn't been looked into but how much more VRAM does the the frame generation feature also use? Because that might put further added pressure once we move to 8GB and lower configuration.
Yeah I think I should get a PC with more memory to be on the safe side, especially regards to the risk of having a "outlier" to be the game I want to play on PC. It's frustrating that even 4070M only have 8GB VRAM and that's laptop's in the $2k - 4k range.
Thanks for the responds.
That's the problem with a laptop especially if RAM is also soldered. On a desktop RAM is for sure just a drop in upgrade from 16GB->32GB, no real risk to go lower if you have to. Even with the GPU you might be out maybe a $100-$300 worst case factoring resell if the 8GB card isn't enough? But non mac laptops basically have horrendous resell devaluation which means you eat a lot of costs if you it's not suitable.
I'd try to go for a solution that can be upgradeable to 32/8, preferably with upgradeable RAM (to avoid the upsell margins).
What you play does also tend to be a factor. The greatest risks are likely going to be multiplatform single player games. Without going into the specific merits of the game we already see one clear example with Forspoken in that not only do you need to drop texture settings but it looks horrendous on 8GB. There's also a slate of games that have arguable issues already (eg. Cyberpunk 2077 as a notable one).
I feel MP and strategy games will likely tend to be fair better and be less likely to suffer significant issues.
Just going to also offer this alternative depending on the usage case for the gaming laptop, but have you considered streaming? Not necessarily streaming services but also just form your gaming desktop? In my case streaming from my desktop, including remotely over the internet, is enough for the gaming I do when not at the desktop. Plus it can be supplemented by less demanding gaming as well.
