These are some of the weirdest CPU-GPU combos we have ever seen on gaming laptops, particularly GPUs that are almost a decade old.
Sakuromoto Unveils Inter Book With N95+GTX 1060, and Rescue Series Gaming Laptop With Core i9 12900H+MX550 Combo
Gaming laptops suffer the same bottlenecks in performance as desktops when we combine two completely different tier components. Balance in configuration is necessary, particularly for gaming, which often results in frame rate dips and stuttering if you pair a high-end GPU with a low-end CPU or vice versa. However, this Chinese laptop manufacturer seems to have other plans, perhaps for utilizing the leftover silicon that would have instead ended up in the trash bin.
Manufacturer Sakuromoto has unveiled two gaming laptops, each with an entry-level GPU but not from any current or previous-gen NVIDIA/AMD series, but from as old as the 9-year-old Pascal family. The first gaming laptop is called the Inter Book, which is powered by the GeForce GTX 1060, a budget GPU from 2016, which comes with 6 GB GDDR5 VRAM. This GPU is paired with an entry-level Intel N95 processor from the Alder Lake family. Now, the interesting part is that the company markets it as a “Core i9-class” processor. We don’t know what that means, but the N95 isn’t a Core i9-class CPU by any means.
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More surprisingly, the laptop’s display is marketed as “4K-class” but offers 1080p resolution. Once again, we don’t know how a 1080p screen can be a 4K-class display, but anyway, the laptop looks like a way to revive the dying NVIDIA GTX 10 Series GPUs, which can act as a decent alternative for basic graphical workloads. The GTX 1060 mobile is fairly powerful to play games on medium settings at 1080p, but with N95, you can’t expect much since it only features a 4-core configuration and works at just 15W. There will be definitely bottlenecks from the CPU side but this goes even worse with Sakuromoto’s other offering.
The Rescue series gaming laptop is yet another example of an incredibly poor CPU-GPU combo choice. The NVIDIA MX550 (a Turing-based mobile chip), which is significantly weaker than the GTX 1060, is paired with the high-end Core i9 12900H processor. I don’t know if the iGPU on the 12900H is superior in performance to the MX550, but considering the specs of the MX550, there was no need to include it with the i9 12900H. Interestingly, the marketing material for this laptop shows a triple-fan NVIDIA desktop GPU with specifications listed as “4GB GDDR6” as if it’s powerful enough for playing modern titles.
The MX550 comes with just 1024 shaders, and even though Sakuromoto was able to double the VRAM capacity from 2 GB to 4 GB and increase the TDP from 25 to 38W, it won’t be able to play games smoothly. Nonetheless, it will do a fine job in basic workloads such as photo editing, video editing, etc.
News Source: @realVictor_M
