@@m0rph19 well it's the cpu's fault cause it's pegged at 100% and the gpu is at like 50 65% max so it's not even really trying to pump out the fps I love it
1 year ago this laptop was one of my options to purchase along with many laptops with 940m / 940mx, gtx 850m, gtx 950m, mx150 etc. I ended up with a laptop with gtx 1050 4gb vram and now I realize what mistake I was about to make buying a 940m laptop
@@younglingslayer2896 I was talking to a seller on the used market to buy his laptop with i7 8550u and mx150 4gb of vram. After letting the price lower he changed his mind and closed the phone. I could've been happy with that laptop too. If I'm not wrong the mx150 were considered the cheapest gaming gpu for laptops back in 2017-2018
@@dusk5927 I'm unsure, but what I do know is I works with dx12 where as my mx130//gt 940mx doesn't and honestly sucks, but I got it for a really good price. Only needed a laptop for work related stuff so the dedicated GPU was a bonus
i still use a 7 year old laptop that utilizes a geforce 940m. has 16gb ram and a 2.8ghz i7, while its not amazing compared to the stuff coming out today, it does everything i need it to and i got this laptop for free from a relative who no longer needed it. Its absolutely perfect for music production and it can handle lots of automation on tracks, complex sound design, and as many effects as i can throw on an instrument without it sounding bad lol. i dont play a lot of games, but its capable of running everything i have on steam at pretty decent framerates and it will easily handle older titles. i dont feel the need to upgrade even though this hardware is a bit outdated because its perfect for what i use it for, maybe if i ever get heavy into gaming or my DAWs recieve updates making it to where i can no longer run them with new resource intensive features, then i will upgrade, but i dont see the point in it currently and i dont think this video really gives this processor a fair chance bc for the average person it will do exactly what you want it to, especially paired with the right processor and ram and you really only need a better processor if you wanna do high end video editing or you're a true gamer who wants to play new graphically intense games that require A LOT of power.
@@mumbos8211 the 940Mx was surprisingly pretty powerful for what people let on. At the time, I was surprised I could even play shadow warrior and the like. I’m kinda still living in that era at my university as I rock a MX450 GPU. Wish Nvidia didn’t neglect the entry level gpu series of stuff because they definitely had their place.
@@comicsans1689 because Nintendo doesn't give a shit about graphics and more about the quality of thier games. And also, that's why the switch is available for 200€ and the ps5 for 700€.
It's ok because there's people rocking integrated graphics and they wanted to play some games. So same thing with low gpus. It's just people wanting to game which is a positive thing!
i have a positivo bgh schoolmate 15 tv with a celeron [forgot the model] at 1.6ghz with boost to 2ghz. they gave us those at school but i was lucky to get that specific one because the previous model had an atom 1.4ghz (i think) and 2gb of ram, mine has 4. it wasn't bad; ran LoL at 20fps lowest settings (back in 2016), ran minecraft just fine, risk of rain 1, commander.exe (random "joke" game i found the devs page that doesn't exist anymore. had metal slug-like sprites is not a virus), used it to play osu for a while and was fine too. the heaviest game i tried to run on it was dirt rally and i think it managed 3fps on lowest settings, or maybe 5, i forgot. when you finished high school the IT guy would get permission from the principal to unlock it so you could get it home and use it undefinetly (has a tpm chip with a licence that had to be renewed every few months) but i forgot about that when i finished school and is now locked. it can be unlocked with a bios flash but don't tell anybody lol
I have this laptop, replaced the battery in it a few months back, replaced 2.5 hdd with a 500gb ssd. Pretty good laptop for school work and web browsing.
i still have such kind of laptop but i5-5200u. i have gamed on it for like 3 years before getting to desktop. so many memories. it was extremely fun times and compared to previous laptops felt truly gaming (like almost all games before 2015 were working veri playable and looked freakin good imo)
@@edgarsbucens nice to know, what about normal loading times etc. are they a significant upgrade or not such a big performance upgrade (the ssd purchase i mean)
@@edgarsbucens Wth, ssd doesnt affect the fps in any kind of way. It only helps in booting up time. Thats the only reason why i didnt bother getting an ssd for my i5 5250u 920m. Im not interested in boot times, or faster installation times. I just want stable fps. And im sure that the ssd is just gonna do efficient memory management, and thats about it.
@@astrojade4802 It all depends on the thing your are doing. The whole system becomes snappy (opening apps and the whole ui) and games load faster (gta 5, bf1, and beamng) These laptops are on the cheap side, and the hard drives they come with are pathetic, so adding an ssd (which are cheap now) is a super upgrade to make. Boot time is a great bonus.
@Narkomancers freek seriously??? Dayum then i need to change to an ssd asap. All games stutter, even though the fps seems proper. Btw should i overspend for a dram ssd or just go for a normal one?
I've had an 820m 1GB laptop for about 7 years before upgrading to an RTX 3050 laptop a couple of months ago. Despite being a very low-end laptop from 2014, I have a lot of fond memories of this machine.
Same bro, my laptop finally gave up last december and it was time to upgrade anyway. I miss the times when I would have to search on youtube if certain games were playable with a 940m 😢😂
My father bought a laptop just like this with an i7 a couple of years ago. I was so surprised to find out it was a dual-core cpu but at least it runs all the games i play pretty well
Videos like this are extremely informative and entertaining. Please continue them. I had an 820M laptop for 3 years and I played tons of games on it. Right now I'm gaming on an RTX 2060 laptop with a core i5 10300H.
@@nouryy ah ok it's just cause I saw a laptop with very similar specs to that and thought it might be that also what's the laptop like as I'm thinking of upgrading to something like that only thing I'm not sure about is the 256gb ssd as it's a bit small
@@kilobravo3533 Mine actually has a 512 NVMe Samsung SSD and 1 Tb hard drive. It's a very good laptop. The build quality is excellent as it's all aluminium, it's cool (CPU is around 74 degrees and GPU never goes beyond 70 degrees Celsius) it's quiet, it comes with Optimus Disabled by default so you get maximum performance and they keyboard is great to type on. If you're just gaming, it's a near perfect laptop. However, I'd recommend you go for a Legion 5 (4600H and GTX 1660ti) if you plan to do video editing or anything that requires a beefy processor. The i5 is just a quad core with 8 threads. I went for it because I play old games like New Vegas and Skyrim where the 4.5ghz frequency comes handy. I also went for it because of the DLSS (I get around 65 FPS in Cyberpunk 2077 with high settings)
ASUS X555LN here, i5-4210u + 840m. Managed to play Forza Horizon 4, GTA V, Fortnite, Minecraft. Far from brilliant, not too shabby for a 6yr old laptop haha :) Great video, thanks!
@@RandomGaminginHD I still use a GTX 860m. In 2015, witcher 3 burnt my graphics card and had to replace my motherboard.... Witcher 3 ran well in high presets in 1080p around 30fps. AC London game(forgot the version) ran in 1080p high settings around 25-30. Games like pubg and fortnite struggled a lot....
I haven't had a desktop for myself in nearly 13 years because I switched to gaming\desktop replacement laptops. And you have been focusing on laptops quite a bit lately and I really love that. I did have a *980* m in a laptop years ago.
Out of curiosity, wouldn't that be more expensive than just building one desktop that you can continuously upgrade over time? I love my laptops (Thinkpads specifically), but their upgradability in power is heavily limited if not downright impossible.
@@comicsans1689 Good point I should have mentioned. I use a laptop not just at home and work but also for work in the field (I'm an Architect) So buying desktop replacement laptops served as an all-in-one thing. At home when gaming I use an external monitor.
@@scavengerspc Ah, that makes sense. What laptop are you currently using? I don't do anything in that field (closest to that was taking a drafting class in high school using AutoCAD; I work in IT), but I currently use a Thinkpad P14s with a Ryzen 7 Pro 4750U for my personal laptop (I use it for gaming and programming and for anything computationally costly since the CPU matches my desktop's Ryzen 7 2700). The P14s has a bunch of ISV certifications, but it might not be the best for your line of work due to the iGPU not being as good as a dedicated GPU, but it's still very usable.
@@comicsans1689 I have a nearly 2-year-old MSI GT76 Titan. I9-9900K desktop CPU and a 205 watt RTX 2080. I was getting ready to replace it soon but the latest GPUs are not yet at their peak in the mobile sector so I'm just watching but with performance stats I have seen so far the laptop 3000 series are badly gimped.
@@scavengerspc why not use an external gpu enclosure? It would be a good investment especially for longevity of a laptop and allows for desktop gpus. If you use an open egpu you can upgrade the gpu over time too.
ive spent 4 years with this gpu along with a i5 6200u and last time i used it i had to lock my fps to 48 to play csgo without input lag lmao. was just looking how it still holds up vids about it too nice timing man :D
I had this in my 2016 surface book. I sold the Kyeboard/GPU and bought the revised keyboard with a more racy 965M. The 940m is good for dual core era stuff like CoD Balck Ops and the fantastic Bioshock 2.
Interesting. I\m watching this on almost the exact same laptop, only difference being mine has the 930m. I've also upgraded the screen to a 1080p version (after the backlight on the original went out). Great video. Can confirm that your FPS results are accurate. I also upgraded the stock 1TB HDD to a 512GB Samsung EVO SSD. As an everyday computer, it is fantastic. Has done everything I've thrown at it, including some light video editing. Great video!
4:49 reminds me of the good old days with my AMD Athlon X2 QL-65 dual-core CPU (without HT) and Radeon HD3200 chipset graphics, when playing Day-Z. I could run it at half resolution of the 1366x768 screen, very blurry, at like 15-20fps. I have to say I actually enjoyed it.
@@habilferdinand30 yo actually if you have the gddr5 variant it ain't so shit. I had an XPS with a 2gb gddr5 gt 640m, and it was actually surprisingly very close to the 650m!
Used to have a 940mx laptop (i still have it), but ever since joining school, they provided us with a laptop with a Ryzen 5, 4500 U. So far, it's really really impressive.
I have one of this since 2016 and gave me tons of fun over the years, as long as you dont try playing recently released AAA games its fine, it still runs well a lot of older games and even some recent (I played both Resident Evil 2 and 3 remakes at launch just fine) provided they're optimized, its great for indie games too, I wish I had something better, but its definetely better than nothing.
1 year pass，what device you are using？ I am a 940m user too I always complain about his poor performance. But sometime I also fortunately that I still have it，better than integrated video card . I play Osu,Roblox,Minecraft Java and also bedrock,all in 1080p He barely meets the needs of a casual gamer like me
@@laipi3212 I upgraded to an Acer Nitro 5 with a GTX 1650, definitely worth it, but I never forgot my 940m laptop, gave me thousands of hours of fun and I'll always be thankful for it. Try some indie games, there are a lot of great ones pretty easy to run.
My brother has an 940M laptop and I'm now building him a 3200G desktop system, do you reckon this is a good enough upgrade? The specs I'm giving it are here: 16gb ddr4 3200mhz corsair vengeance (no rgb) MSI B450M Pro motherboard Wraith prism RGB cooler (from my old system) Corsair SF450 Fully modular power supply (its in a 15 litre office case I found on ebay, name etc unknown) I have yet to get the APU as I am trying to find a good deal on it, I have found good things on CeX and ebay so far but I am yet to make the pounce on it.
I think it is, the cpu is a lot better at least, and you can always add a graphics card later, a 1650 for example will crush the performance of this laptop and doesn't require a lot of power so you should be fine with the 450 watt powersupply
Made a quarantine budget build until I can get the hardware for my dream pc at msrp my current build is a 3200g that I got for £90 rather cheap 8gb 2x4 2666 a320 micro atx mother board a 500watt 80+ psu and a second hand near perfect condition gtx 970 that I got for £65 again another good deal a 120gb ssd a 500gb hard drive and a cheap micro atx case the whole build was about £300 but I can play most games at 1080p at 60-90 fps
@@Tracho-n7m the gtx 970 has slightly higher performance then a 1650 I don’t know about the pricing but I got a nearly perfect condition gtx 970 from eBay for £65 so I assume the second hand price range could go as high as £80-£100
Thanks for the video, I just recently picked up a laptop with a 740m for around 130 Euros. Not too bad for the performance which seems to be not too far behind your 940. For casual and e sports games it still holds up well, better than I actually expected giving the poor specs. You should however limit yourself to 720p. What's also helpful is a small overclock, can be done in MSI Afterburner and will give you about 5-20% better performance depending on the game and chip you have.
Well, 940M is made on a smaller Maxwell 1.0 die with only 384SP max, can be paried with DDR3 or GDDR5, the later will boost the 940M dramatically, there are also 940MX as well which is a higher clocked 940M. The one reviewed in this video is the slower DDR3 variant
The 940M was succeeded by the MX150(2GB GDDR5) which was pretty good for the time for 768p 60fps gaming! Then the MX250 was barely barely any better, the MX350 the same, and now it seems like the MX450 is a pretty good upgrade. Meanwhile the Vega 8 GPU(APU unlocked to 25W) was doing pretty damn well, easily on par with the MX150 , but now AMD has stagnated and the Irix XE is better.
interesting thing, mx150 and mx250 have 2gb vram and 4gb vram versions but mx450 has only 2gb of vram and I think that's a shame, mx450 is comparable to a laptop gtx 1050 which has 4gb vram version as well
Well, when I bought my first laptop with GT 650M, it was a "monster" in performance for me))) but later I realized... If possible add War Thunder to tests) I think it is quite a popular + nice looking game.
@@Cedlad True, would be hard to guess the gpu market would be the way it is now and most people kept saying everyone should wait for the new gpu's, I'm glad I bought mine in the summer
I have a Lenovo T460 with a 6200u and a 940mx and the thing thermal throttles every time the GPU kicks in. I can play GTA V just as good as you can for like 2 mins although I found a way to counter it by blasting AC in a car when using it
I still have my 940mx laptop. I upgraded its ram to 16gbs and it had a i5 7200u. Very nice for web browsing and some emulators. I got a RX 580 and a Ryzen 2600 as my main build now though.
My first ever laptop of my own had a i5 6200u and GeForce 940M just like this video. Sure it wasn't fast, Battlefield 1 with 25% render scale was how i played the game for a long time. But it definitely holds a special place in my heart.
@@aarongreenfield9038 No, it really is his. My daily driver right now is a Ryzen 5 3500U 16 GBs of RAM and a 256 GBs SSD. My little brother's is a Core i5 5200U 4 GBs of RAM, without dedicated GPU and a 500 GB hard drive.
@@krazycharlie. Well at least get your little bro about 12 more gigs of ram. Really 4 gigs? that's like what I had on my old windows XP laptop 15 years ago. Probably before your brother was even born.
@@aarongreenfield9038 I really want him to have something better since he's pursuing a music production career. We'll se what happens this year but I'm not holding my breath, considering the prices of GPUs and other PC parts right now.
Wow. Just upgraded from a 940m to a RTX 3060 ti after years of saving, its a huge fucking world of difference lmao I have no idea what to do with all this extra FPS But I'll never forget the years it carried me through, playing Bordrlands 2, CSGO, Overwatch, TF2, Minecraft, even torturing it with Ark Survival and Space Engineers. Rest well, little buddy.
I have that x555 series laptop but its the older one with a geforce 820m and i5-4210U. It was my first pc/laptop that could run games as we had this ancient desktop from like 2006. I battered it so hard with games and editing so ended up changing the HDD to an SSD, changed the battery and installed a fresh copy of windows but its still as slow as before. Glad I built myself an actual desktop though last year.
I played through the entirety of The Witcher 3 and Dark Souls 3 on an Acer laptop with a 940M. I also put around 300+ hours into a playthrough of Skyrim. And for The Witcher 3 I actually played through the entire game with the laptop on my lap. Needless to say I ended up getting minor burns on my left thigh and the marks from it didn't go away for multiple years. That laptop served me well, but I am sooooooo glad to finally have a real gaming PC these days.
Dude.... you did a video in the GPU I used to play games with, the old laptop with the GPU was an Acer Travelmate P257-MG paired with an Intel i7 5500U Dual core CPU and 8GB DDR3 Ram. Thanks Dude ❤
I was playing Dota 2 and still play sometimes Valorant on a GT 525M - Dell Inspiron N5110. Upgraded the CPU to a 2920XM and to 16GB of ram. That laptop is 10 years old and still rocks. Nowadays mostly use it for work.
MX isn't all that better to be honest, they were commonly paired with DDR3 VRAM and rarely with GDDR5. The DDR3 versions could not give the full performance of an MX and performed more or less like the M versions. The GDDR5 versions were half decent for playing E-sports games and older titles.
There is nothing to compare. Think in this way, the m series is like as if you are watching a movie, and the mx series is where you are actually in control of the movie.
@@bulutcagdas1071 if you have a DDR3 version could you somehow disable/bypass the integrated VRAM and allocate some of the systems faster DDR4 ram instead?
@@drunk_by_noon9231 Sound cool on theory but the added latency due to distance, plus having to run through the CPU to communicate with the RAM adds even more latency.
Btw, "U" CPUs have only 4 PCI-E lanes instead of standart 16 (4x1 or 2x2 if you got NVME SSD). So, this laptop is running it's 940M via PCI-E 3.0 x4 (or even x2 with pointed SSD). I don't think that 940M will do much better via x16, but for some games it might be important.
My Alienware laptop has a 960m. I was shocked when I realized later the i5 was a dual core. Even more shocked to learn there’s a dual core i7! Wish I had this channel back in 2016. I’d have bought something else.
Same, got conned into buying a dual core i5 and a 920m. I mean the functioning of the laptop was soo bad when i bought it that i wonder why i never gave up on the system from t he very beginning. Now its only fit for watching yt. No gaming
Yeah Rocket league is playable until you start to realize that the 3d aspect gets harder and harder to identify at lower resolutions. i wanted to play rocket league at 60fps in high quality settings, but there is no way it will run properly without staggering,
I had the i5-7200U + 950M (or something like that) version of this laptop. It was fairly decent for running indie games, emulation and certain old MMOs which is all what I used it for along side coding work.
I have an old Sager laptop that has an old graphics card called hd7970m and its still a beast for gaming! it's tough to play recent games in 1080p but I'm totally happy to have a portable 720p gaming machine with me.
0:35 if you work in IT support and administration, you know. A decent portion of the HP and Dell SFF PCs I've integrated actually have dual-core i7 processors. I must say, I appreciate the love you give these older series like the 900M series. Even if the 940M is fairly weak by today's standards, it's great to know that in the right games, it holds its own.
MSI AFTERBURNER CAN WORK! Just got it to work yesterday after having the same problem and getting really confused, all you have to do is: (not -untrusted, that doesn't work) Go to steam launch settings, and type: -allow_third_party_software
0:35 I know about dual core i7 CPUs, after all, have a look at the i7-4510U CPU, it's the CPU that is in the laptop I'm using now as my daily driver ;) 6:13 ooh lovely, someone else that listens to "Non Stop Pop FM" eh? Fantastic, that's the station I listen to as well :)
Basically my laptop, i5 - 6200u, 920MX 2GB and 12 GB RAM and 1TB HDD. Under Arch Linux I can run a modded Minecraft server and a Instance of modded Minecraft on a secondary 1080p monitor at 75+ FPS with over 100 Firefox tabs, a bunch of libreoffice documents.
My old, limping along laptop is a woeful i5 core duo with the 940mx. I've squeezed a surprising amount of performance out of it after repasting everything. I use linux mint, and hover around 40-50 fps in Minecraft 1.7.10 with about 40 mods and a view distance of 12, though it slows down if you are loading too many chunks. In vanilla + optifine I could run around 35-40 fps at a stupid view distance of 32, though I would pause and let chunks load in for a sec. I can hold 60 fps in most older games at medium graphics. I even got stable defusion working on the 2gb of vram, but it took 5-10 minutes for a 512x512 image and would crash making anything bigger. I also had to downgrade the Nvidia drivers to 470 in order to utilize the cuda cores, since apparently they disable them on more recent drivers. Overall its good enough for light usage, but looking forward to a new laptop or build in the next year; I'm dying for some next gen speed.
I have a 940mx and an i7-7500U on my laptop. Let's just say that I used to play every single game released after 2011 on 720p resolution. I gamed 3 years on it before switching back to a pc for my projects.
About Gta iv and its optimization. There's a mod that fixes it, name is Dxvk. What it does is swap the api to Vulkan. In the process fixing stutters and performance instability. Makes the game very playable.
Next time you try GTA IV try it with the DXVK & fusionfix mods! it completely fixes the stutter, and increases fps. it makes the game actually enjoyable to play.
I have an Acer with 940M (4GB) + i5 6200u, 16GB RAM, and Full HD TN. Bought for 800€ in December 2015. I still play Minecraft on it, even though I have a 2nd laptop with MX250 ( smaller screen). And in general, it would still be a nice laptop for office use if: - the audio card on the motherboard was not failing - the USB ports were not worn out - the fan did not have a worn out bearing, making it vibrate - the screen did not have scratches, pressure marks, and terrible viewing angles
I had a DELL Latitude 3470 with that GPU and an i7-6500U. The 940M was the default GPU choice bundled in most corporate laptops from the likes of HP, DELL and Lenovo, through 2016/2017, before being swapped by the MX150 later on. I was able to play and complete the Spyro Reignited Trilogy on that CPU + GPU combo, but at 720p at the Lowest settings and with framerate locked at 30FPS. 20-25FPS was the result.
I'd love to see a video on the gtx 950m, it being the last GTX card at the bottom of the range before Pascal, when mobile GPUs saw a huge jump in performance relative to desktop GPUs
I have a laptop with this GPU, its definitely underpowered but it makes more sense to look at it more as a laptop that can do light gaming rather than as a budget gaming laptop. I have used it to play older games like Alien Isolation, Rome 2, and mass effect 3. For those it is perfectly adequate assuming you keep your expectations in check. I bought mine for $500 in 2016 for school, and it made sense to get this over the similarly priced ultra books that had no discrete graphics at all.
I used to have one of these laptops as my main machine. It was an x556u with the 6200u, gt 940mx 2 gb ddr3 and 8gb soldered ddr4 and 128gb ssd. It was a good entry into gaming for me as it was my first laptop that was my own. It played quite well with games like tf2, minecraft and Lol. Even fortnite ran half decently back then. It sounded like an quiet jet engine and was like a toaster in the 80-90 degrees sustained load. The main issues were the dd3 used in the 940mx rather than gddr5 and also the 1080p screen which meant that i couldn't play anything more demanding at native res. It was also really nice for the few first months but then the crappy plastic case started to show scratches on the lid and palmrest due to being completley made out of plastic and being used as my school machine and everyday gaming machine for 2 years or so. As after 2 years of usage it looked and still looks like crap, the paint is coming off everywhere, hinge cover snapped off, even the w key is slightly melted (yeah like literally melted) and esc is missing.
I used to play a lot of League of Legends and Overwatch with this. It even ran Rise of the Tomb Raider and Sniper Elite 4 really well (but with very low settings and resolution). My laptop was the model with 4K native resolution so that's a pretty sweet bonus by itself. And yes, some indie games can run run at 4K with this GPU.
Funny you upload this, I have an HP Envy M7 that has this same GPU with the i7-6500u and a 1080p screen. Have not tried to play any games on it since HP’s software loves to lock the FPS to 30 then bump it to 60 and go back and forth and back and forth causing all kinds of issues in games. It’s not hardware related throttling, but software. One of these days I’ll be lazy enough to format and reinstall, then try again. Cant imagine the performance will be much better with the i7 than an i5 but it could be interesting, given the 1080p screen
I have an older asus laptop that's been just a loyal unit. 4720hq i7, upgraded ram to 12gb, threw a 500gb ssd instead of the 5400rpm harddrive, and came with a 950m(ddr3 version 😭) but honestly I've always known her limits and I haven't been disappointed. Good machine
Had one Aspire E5-573G-553C and "upgraded" it with adding 8GB RAM with 240GB SSD, ofcourse replaced HDD in optibay . Bought in 2016 and owned till end of 2020; Sold it cause old version onboard HDMI can't handle 3440x1440(100Hz). To be honest, I was satisfied with the performance, taking into account the fact that I was bought for the WoW game(daily/weekly quests/5 ppl. dungeons). I think the main drawback is GDDR3 with 64bit bus, there was a feeling that dedicatedGPU could do more.
Still rocking a i5 7200U 940mx laptop. TW3 runs at stable 30+ FPS on medium to high graphics (the original, not the "updated" version). I even beat up Elden Ring on ~30 FPS with it. Amazing graphic card for its age and price range IMO.
Hii!! Love your videos mate!. Could you please cover the geforce 920m next? It was a really common cheap laptop graphics chip but can still run fallout 4, fortnite, assasins creed at 768p low settings. Thank you chap!
I have a 25W MX250 (4GB GDDR5) in my HP Envy business laptop/tablet, it's the absolute minimum to play modern games. It is about twice as fast as the 940M. Games like Overwatch or GTA 5 run fine at native 1080 resolution (100%), intense games like Battlefield 5 provide only stable 60 fps at 720p. Fortunately, I run most of the time games like Rimworld on it which run perfectly fine on the iGPU of the i7-10510U.
Processors with the letter "U" at the end of the their description will adversely impact the performance of your game. Here's a fact: I have a Intel i7 4700mq (8 CPUs) laptop with a nvidia gt755m graphics (2013 model), and I am able to play some very demanding games from 2018, upwards eg, forza horizon 4, and battlefield 5 at a solid 30-40 fps and a steady 60 fps for fifa 20.
As a person that still daily drives this exact laptop, It is 5 year old entry level pc. At that time I played all modern games of that era at high settings 45 fps 720p of course. Its just that huge leap in technology and game graphics that killed this card. And believe me the main problem is not the gpu but cpu. That 2 core i5 is struggling when you open a single app. I still do all of my jobs on this boy and for the games that It can't run, I use geforce now. And some of your benchmarks seems like suffering from something. I played GTA5 in all high settings and textures set to very high and I get the same fps as yours. For cs:go I don't drop above 120 fps all times. And best thing about this computer is the display. It can be overclocked up to 95Hz without hassle. I was planning to change my laptop, but thanks to shortages, high prices etc etc It seems like I'll be stuck with this laptop for one or two more years.
Man going from a 940mx/i5 7th laptop to a i5 4790/750ti desktop was such a huge upgrade for me lol. My laptop for some reason didn't even ran csgo over 10fps
You can launch csgo with msi afterburner layout. You can go to RTSS and add a profile for csgo executable with enabling stealth mode and set launch options on steam with this command: "-allow_third_party_software" It works for me.
As a “Proud” owner of a laptop with a GeForce 940MX, I can say that the X variant does perform noticeably better. You can also expect up to 10 FPS gains in some titles, atleast with the gddr5 version
witrh Odyssey coming out for Elite, I'd love to see some benchmarks on some of these mobile GPUs also being inclusive of that game as well as on some of the lower-end GPUs to show how that particular game runs. A lot of people are going to want to probably give the new expansion a try and go and buy something silly not realizing it won't run.
Bro, I really love your videos but please, increase the recording volume of your microphone. The volume is too low compared to the average volume of other videos across youtube. Or at least speak louder. Other than that, great job!
"Is that an enemy? No it's a fire...." That gave me quite a good laugh!
I couldn't see a thing lol
Yup, the 900 series are truly a work of art, where it can paint the enemy as a rock.
@@RandomGaminginHD u should play titanfall 2 as benchmarking game pls
Fire is still the enemy.
@@m0rph19 well it's the cpu's fault cause it's pegged at 100% and the gpu is at like 50 65% max so it's not even really trying to pump out the fps I love it
1 year ago this laptop was one of my options to purchase along with many laptops with 940m / 940mx, gtx 850m, gtx 950m, mx150 etc. I ended up with a laptop with gtx 1050 4gb vram and now I realize what mistake I was about to make buying a 940m laptop
The mx150 is good, it's the mx110 and 130 that are bad
@@younglingslayer2896 I was talking to a seller on the used market to buy his laptop with i7 8550u and mx150 4gb of vram. After letting the price lower he changed his mind and closed the phone. I could've been happy with that laptop too. If I'm not wrong the mx150 were considered the cheapest gaming gpu for laptops back in 2017-2018
@@dusk5927 I'm unsure, but what I do know is I works with dx12 where as my mx130//gt 940mx doesn't and honestly sucks, but I got it for a really good price. Only needed a laptop for work related stuff so the dedicated GPU was a bonus
@Jack Snyder glad you like it
@@AppleReviews can't afford new fancy shit//waste of money to buy new tech as much as I want it lol
4:53 If you are patient enough, then you will probably manage to count all pixels on the screen (be sure to disable TAA of course).
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4:26 "We'll just gonna have to kidnap him for a moment" - that sounds so very British, I love it :-D
That spontaneous wave at 0:05 is why we watch these videos :D
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Man the GT 940MX will always hold a special place in my heart. It was my intro to true PC gaming
i still use a 7 year old laptop that utilizes a geforce 940m. has 16gb ram and a 2.8ghz i7, while its not amazing compared to the stuff coming out today, it does everything i need it to and i got this laptop for free from a relative who no longer needed it. Its absolutely perfect for music production and it can handle lots of automation on tracks, complex sound design, and as many effects as i can throw on an instrument without it sounding bad lol. i dont play a lot of games, but its capable of running everything i have on steam at pretty decent framerates and it will easily handle older titles. i dont feel the need to upgrade even though this hardware is a bit outdated because its perfect for what i use it for, maybe if i ever get heavy into gaming or my DAWs recieve updates making it to where i can no longer run them with new resource intensive features, then i will upgrade, but i dont see the point in it currently and i dont think this video really gives this processor a fair chance bc for the average person it will do exactly what you want it to, especially paired with the right processor and ram and you really only need a better processor if you wanna do high end video editing or you're a true gamer who wants to play new graphically intense games that require A LOT of power.
@@mumbos8211 the 940Mx was surprisingly pretty powerful for what people let on. At the time, I was surprised I could even play shadow warrior and the like. I’m kinda still living in that era at my university as I rock a MX450 GPU. Wish Nvidia didn’t neglect the entry level gpu series of stuff because they definitely had their place.
I'm still thinking how the hell do you found this beauties out there
This one was an ebay listing. £250 buy it now. Not too bad for the specs
@@RandomGaminginHD in this time and age of scarce and inflation gpu? that's a nice deal lol
"We had to turn the resolution scaling down to 25% of 768p."
I didn't know Battlefield V got a Switch port.
What's that supposed to mean?
@@eliasroflchopper3006 the nintendo switch runs at like 680p.
The Switch launched with obsolete hardware.
@@Owowkiller didn't know that 25% of 768p is 680p lmao. You don't have to hate on the switch for no reason you know.
@@comicsans1689 because Nintendo doesn't give a shit about graphics and more about the quality of thier games. And also, that's why the switch is available for 200€ and the ps5 for 700€.
That was not as bad as I thought it would be. And kudos to you again for a clean laptop.
it's a joke they call a dual core an i5 or i7 cpu commical
It is way worse than it looks like, no chance to play anything on that thing. The input lag is insane as well
always looking forward to your videos
Dude my friend is still rocking a 830m and calls it his gaming rig
Lmfao, imagine
If that's all he can afford it is what it is
Well he games on it, it is his rig, hence >his< gaming rig.
It's ok because there's people rocking integrated graphics and they wanted to play some games. So same thing with low gpus. It's just people wanting to game which is a positive thing!
Hey its his happiness
When you have the 930m in an all in one paired with an i5 7400T
When you have gtx 765m paird with i7 4800mq
@@xbyxenos3200 I have a 750m
i got a i5 7200u gtx950m laptop that died recently :(
@INFxSHADOWi have a laptop with an i3 370m (1st gen) and its fine for web browsing but thats it. runs at about 70°c watching 720p youtube.
i have a positivo bgh schoolmate 15 tv with a celeron [forgot the model] at 1.6ghz with boost to 2ghz. they gave us those at school but i was lucky to get that specific one because the previous model had an atom 1.4ghz (i think) and 2gb of ram, mine has 4. it wasn't bad; ran LoL at 20fps lowest settings (back in 2016), ran minecraft just fine, risk of rain 1, commander.exe (random "joke" game i found the devs page that doesn't exist anymore. had metal slug-like sprites is not a virus), used it to play osu for a while and was fine too. the heaviest game i tried to run on it was dirt rally and i think it managed 3fps on lowest settings, or maybe 5, i forgot.
when you finished high school the IT guy would get permission from the principal to unlock it so you could get it home and use it undefinetly (has a tpm chip with a licence that had to be renewed every few months) but i forgot about that when i finished school and is now locked. it can be unlocked with a bios flash but don't tell anybody lol
I have this laptop, replaced the battery in it a few months back, replaced 2.5 hdd with a 500gb ssd. Pretty good laptop for school work and web browsing.
I do same, also installed linux, now it's new laptop lag free with linux
I still have this one, but with i7-5500U.
I'm about to do the same. I'll start with SSD first. :)
@@H1TM33 which distro are you using rn?
@@JMRVRGS Arch Linux with i3wm
i still have such kind of laptop but i5-5200u. i have gamed on it for like 3 years before getting to desktop. so many memories. it was extremely fun times and compared to previous laptops felt truly gaming (like almost all games before 2015 were working veri playable and looked freakin good imo)
If you put -allow_third_party_software
In on the console for csgo you can use msi afterburner again
awesome, thank you :)
@@RandomGaminginHD I think you also have to put "-untrusted" for it to work.
I bet you mean csgo launch options and not the ingame console!
That will force you to play against known hackers onoy, wont it?
I have a 940mx laptop lol I played all the games in it so far
Same but when rdr2 came up it struggled I had to buy a new laptop
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Titanfall 2?
my laptop has a 940mx too, i mostly use my pc with the amazing r7 260x though.
u may have the GTX version which has gddr5 memory, im able to play on it witcher 3 on low/med setting on 1080p
how can ur videos be this relatable im using the sameexact laptop rn only a 920M + i5 7th gen
Same, except Im runing the i7 and if you add an SSD, you will get a 10% increase in fps
@@edgarsbucens nice to know, what about normal loading times etc. are they a significant upgrade or not such a big performance upgrade (the ssd purchase i mean)
@@edgarsbucens Wth, ssd doesnt affect the fps in any kind of way. It only helps in booting up time.
Thats the only reason why i didnt bother getting an ssd for my i5 5250u 920m. Im not interested in boot times, or faster installation times. I just want stable fps. And im sure that the ssd is just gonna do efficient memory management, and thats about it.
@@astrojade4802 It all depends on the thing your are doing. The whole system becomes snappy (opening apps and the whole ui) and games load faster (gta 5, bf1, and beamng) These laptops are on the cheap side, and the hard drives they come with are pathetic, so adding an ssd (which are cheap now) is a super upgrade to make. Boot time is a great bonus.
@Narkomancers freek seriously??? Dayum then i need to change to an ssd asap. All games stutter, even though the fps seems proper. Btw should i overspend for a dram ssd or just go for a normal one?
I've had an 820m 1GB laptop for about 7 years before upgrading to an RTX 3050 laptop a couple of months ago. Despite being a very low-end laptop from 2014, I have a lot of fond memories of this machine.
gadammmn u were gaming low spec for a while there amigo 😮haha enjoy your 3050 👍
Same here, I used to have an I3 4030U Asus PC, with an 820m.
It did survive for 8 years then its motherboard died
Man I remember when I had a laptop with this as my main "gaming" machine. Now I have an RTX 3070, and the difference is night and day.
Cards have moved on, even if the games haven't.
Lucky haha. I am still stuck with this 930m, i7 7500U crapshit
@@hariranormal5584 tha 's crazy how a 7th gen i7 processor is "rocking" a 900 series card
Same bro, my laptop finally gave up last december and it was time to upgrade anyway. I miss the times when I would have to search on youtube if certain games were playable with a 940m 😢😂
@@jackjude I am literally extremely late, but thats just a 2 core and slightly faster than the i5 7200u
My father bought a laptop just like this with an i7 a couple of years ago. I was so surprised to find out it was a dual-core cpu but at least it runs all the games i play pretty well
3:43 low fps because GTA IV is made by Rage engine which was not good at that time, and there are so many complaints about GTA IV of shuttering.
Videos like this are extremely informative and entertaining. Please continue them.
I had an 820M laptop for 3 years and I played tons of games on it. Right now I'm gaming on an RTX 2060 laptop with a core i5 10300H.
Is it a Lenovo legion 5i
awesome upgrade :)
@@kilobravo3533 It's an HP Omen 15
@@nouryy ah ok it's just cause I saw a laptop with very similar specs to that and thought it might be that also what's the laptop like as I'm thinking of upgrading to something like that only thing I'm not sure about is the 256gb ssd as it's a bit small
@@kilobravo3533 Mine actually has a 512 NVMe Samsung SSD and 1 Tb hard drive. It's a very good laptop. The build quality is excellent as it's all aluminium, it's cool (CPU is around 74 degrees and GPU never goes beyond 70 degrees Celsius) it's quiet, it comes with Optimus Disabled by default so you get maximum performance and they keyboard is great to type on. If you're just gaming, it's a near perfect laptop. However, I'd recommend you go for a Legion 5 (4600H and GTX 1660ti) if you plan to do video editing or anything that requires a beefy processor. The i5 is just a quad core with 8 threads. I went for it because I play old games like New Vegas and Skyrim where the 4.5ghz frequency comes handy. I also went for it because of the DLSS (I get around 65 FPS in Cyberpunk 2077 with high settings)
ASUS X555LN here, i5-4210u + 840m. Managed to play Forza Horizon 4, GTA V, Fortnite, Minecraft. Far from brilliant, not too shabby for a 6yr old laptop haha :)
Great video, thanks!
Great content with thorough explanation! If possible, can you do a video on the GTX 860M by any chance?
I did a 850m test the other day so I can't imagine the 860 would be much better. Though I'll definitely do one if I find an 850M machine
@@RandomGaminginHD I still use a GTX 860m. In 2015, witcher 3 burnt my graphics card and had to replace my motherboard.... Witcher 3 ran well in high presets in 1080p around 30fps. AC London game(forgot the version) ran in 1080p high settings around 25-30. Games like pubg and fortnite struggled a lot....
@@RandomGaminginHD bro, check my other comment, I have a solution to your CSGO MSI Afterburner problem..
Would be interesting to see how much difference there is between GF 940M and GTX 950M and between GTX 850M and GTX 950M. Currently I'm using GTX 950M.
@@RandomGaminginHD alright! waiting for a video on it once you can get your hands on one!
4:51 ooh nice. What's the name of this ps2 title? 😂
it's the new switch port
I haven't had a desktop for myself in nearly 13 years because I switched to gaming\desktop replacement laptops. And you have been focusing on laptops quite a bit lately and I really love that.
I did have a *980* m in a laptop years ago.
Out of curiosity, wouldn't that be more expensive than just building one desktop that you can continuously upgrade over time? I love my laptops (Thinkpads specifically), but their upgradability in power is heavily limited if not downright impossible.
@@comicsans1689 Good point I should have mentioned. I use a laptop not just at home and work but also for work in the field (I'm an Architect) So buying desktop replacement laptops served as an all-in-one thing. At home when gaming I use an external monitor.
@@scavengerspc Ah, that makes sense. What laptop are you currently using? I don't do anything in that field (closest to that was taking a drafting class in high school using AutoCAD; I work in IT), but I currently use a Thinkpad P14s with a Ryzen 7 Pro 4750U for my personal laptop (I use it for gaming and programming and for anything computationally costly since the CPU matches my desktop's Ryzen 7 2700). The P14s has a bunch of ISV certifications, but it might not be the best for your line of work due to the iGPU not being as good as a dedicated GPU, but it's still very usable.
@@comicsans1689 I have a nearly 2-year-old MSI GT76 Titan. I9-9900K desktop CPU and a 205 watt RTX 2080. I was getting ready to replace it soon but the latest GPUs are not yet at their peak in the mobile sector so I'm just watching but with performance stats I have seen so far the laptop 3000 series are badly gimped.
@@scavengerspc why not use an external gpu enclosure? It would be a good investment especially for longevity of a laptop and allows for desktop gpus. If you use an open egpu you can upgrade the gpu over time too.
ive spent 4 years with this gpu along with a i5 6200u and last time i used it i had to lock my fps to 48 to play csgo without input lag lmao. was just looking how it still holds up vids about it too nice timing man :D
I had this in my 2016 surface book. I sold the Kyeboard/GPU and bought the revised keyboard with a more racy 965M. The 940m is good for dual core era stuff like CoD Balck Ops and the fantastic Bioshock 2.
The best part about coming home from work is seeing a new upload from this man 👏
Interesting. I\m watching this on almost the exact same laptop, only difference being mine has the 930m. I've also upgraded the screen to a 1080p version (after the backlight on the original went out). Great video. Can confirm that your FPS results are accurate. I also upgraded the stock 1TB HDD to a 512GB Samsung EVO SSD. As an everyday computer, it is fantastic. Has done everything I've thrown at it, including some light video editing.
Great video!
4:49 reminds me of the good old days with my AMD Athlon X2 QL-65 dual-core CPU (without HT) and Radeon HD3200 chipset graphics, when playing Day-Z. I could run it at half resolution of the 1366x768 screen, very blurry, at like 15-20fps. I have to say I actually enjoyed it.
I feel that bro... i have amd athlon x2 QL-60 and shitty Ati radeon 3200
This channel: "Can you even game with GeForce 940M?"
My broke ass: *cries in 820M*
*cries more in 740M *
**cries river in 9400M**
*cries even more in 525M *
@@habilferdinand30 yo actually if you have the gddr5 variant it ain't so shit. I had an XPS with a 2gb gddr5 gt 640m, and it was actually surprisingly very close to the 650m!
Used to have a 940mx laptop (i still have it), but ever since joining school, they provided us with a laptop with a Ryzen 5, 4500 U. So far, it's really really impressive.
The last time I was this early they called me premature
Hi
I have one of this since 2016 and gave me tons of fun over the years, as long as you dont try playing recently released AAA games its fine, it still runs well a lot of older games and even some recent (I played both Resident Evil 2 and 3 remakes at launch just fine) provided they're optimized, its great for indie games too, I wish I had something better, but its definetely better than nothing.
1 year pass，what device you are using？
I am a 940m user too
I always complain about his poor
performance.
But sometime I also fortunately that I still have it，better than integrated video card .
I play Osu,Roblox,Minecraft Java and also bedrock,all in 1080p
He barely meets the needs of a casual gamer like me
@@laipi3212 I upgraded to an Acer Nitro 5 with a GTX 1650, definitely worth it, but I never forgot my 940m laptop, gave me thousands of hours of fun and I'll always be thankful for it.
Try some indie games, there are a lot of great ones pretty easy to run.
My brother has an 940M laptop and I'm now building him a 3200G desktop system, do you reckon this is a good enough upgrade? The specs I'm giving it are here:
16gb ddr4 3200mhz corsair vengeance (no rgb)
MSI B450M Pro motherboard
Wraith prism RGB cooler (from my old system)
Corsair SF450 Fully modular power supply (its in a 15 litre office case I found on ebay, name etc unknown)
I have yet to get the APU as I am trying to find a good deal on it, I have found good things on CeX and ebay so far but I am yet to make the pounce on it.
I think it is, the cpu is a lot better at least, and you can always add a graphics card later, a 1650 for example will crush the performance of this laptop and doesn't require a lot of power so you should be fine with the 450 watt powersupply
@@koolin3613 yep I agree the 1650 uses what 75W ?
Made a quarantine budget build until I can get the hardware for my dream pc at msrp my current build is a 3200g that I got for £90 rather cheap 8gb 2x4 2666 a320 micro atx mother board a 500watt 80+ psu and a second hand near perfect condition gtx 970 that I got for £65 again another good deal a 120gb ssd a 500gb hard drive and a cheap micro atx case the whole build was about £300 but I can play most games at 1080p at 60-90 fps
@@Tracho-n7m the gtx 970 has slightly higher performance then a 1650 I don’t know about the pricing but I got a nearly perfect condition gtx 970 from eBay for £65 so I assume the second hand price range could go as high as £80-£100
get a used R5 3400G..... it's going to be a long time until GPU prices drop
Thanks for the video, I just recently picked up a laptop with a 740m for around 130 Euros. Not too bad for the performance which seems to be not too far behind your 940. For casual and e sports games it still holds up well, better than I actually expected giving the poor specs. You should however limit yourself to 720p.
What's also helpful is a small overclock, can be done in MSI Afterburner and will give you about 5-20% better performance depending on the game and chip you have.
I was expecting a friendly introduction to the gpu but you literally destroyed it with the 'gtx' comments lol
I remember trying to run Witcher 3 at 1080p low on a i5-5200u and a 940m. Wow that 10fps slideshow was tough to watch!
The "M" in 940M stands for mistake
so does the 980M😳
Thanks! Love this mobile content, especially these 900 models - they only get better from here...
3:48 i see E46 and Crown Vic mods
Well, 940M is made on a smaller Maxwell 1.0 die with only 384SP max, can be paried with DDR3 or GDDR5, the later will boost the 940M dramatically, there are also 940MX as well which is a higher clocked 940M. The one reviewed in this video is the slower DDR3 variant
Nice video man u should test the i7 5960x and name the title like Intel's 5000 series cpu
Broadwell does exist yes, it wasn’t popular but i don’t think it will be as clickbait as 300/800 series nvidia gpus
Should compare it to the r9 5950x for fun too!
@@kurfurst6465 well it was never a consumer series on desktop. It only existed on the professional socket and in laptops
I think an i5 5675c or i7 5775c would be better choices. Cheaper and uses LGA1150 instead of LGA2011.
BRUH I JUST SAID THAT CAUSE THEY HAVE A SIMILAR NAME IDIOTS
The 940M was succeeded by the MX150(2GB GDDR5) which was pretty good for the time for 768p 60fps gaming! Then the MX250 was barely barely any better, the MX350 the same, and now it seems like the MX450 is a pretty good upgrade.
Meanwhile the Vega 8 GPU(APU unlocked to 25W) was doing pretty damn well, easily on par with the MX150 , but now AMD has stagnated and the Irix XE is better.
Thy kinda didn't vega 11 is a thing but they don't put it in anything cheap and that defeats the purpose.
interesting thing, mx150 and mx250 have 2gb vram and 4gb vram versions but mx450 has only 2gb of vram and I think that's a shame, mx450 is comparable to a laptop gtx 1050 which has 4gb vram version as well
Next up: try the 315m, my daily driver last year
I finished sleeping dogs twice on this machine 😂
Well, when I bought my first laptop with GT 650M, it was a "monster" in performance for me))) but later I realized...
If possible add War Thunder to tests) I think it is quite a popular + nice looking game.
still rocking my GT 840m 2GBs 🤭🤭
Me with a gtx 765m
Same but I did buy a desktop last year so I could finally play new games
@@TheBS970 i wish i pulled the trigger on a new pc last year aswell!
@@Cedlad True, would be hard to guess the gpu market would be the way it is now and most people kept saying everyone should wait for the new gpu's, I'm glad I bought mine in the summer
I have a Lenovo T460 with a 6200u and a 940mx and the thing thermal throttles every time the GPU kicks in. I can play GTA V just as good as you can for like 2 mins although I found a way to counter it by blasting AC in a car when using it
my old laptop had a 940mx (a slightly better version of the 940m) and it was painful to game on
I still have my 940mx laptop. I upgraded its ram to 16gbs and it had a i5 7200u. Very nice for web browsing and some emulators. I got a RX 580 and a Ryzen 2600 as my main build now though.
I'd rather playing games on in i3 gen 10 (laptop) than in laptop with i5 5xxx/6xxx + 940m/940mx gpu
Finally, I've been looking for a review of my gpu! But instead of 5600u, i have 5200u :)
This graphics card was disrespected by not being given a gtx badge!
Or at least a GT badge
M series use to be flagship gaming gpus for laptops
@@RandomGaminginHD yeah even that would have been better!
@@RandomGaminginHD I think it does have GT badge. Its called Geforce GT940M
My first ever laptop of my own had a i5 6200u and GeForce 940M just like this video. Sure it wasn't fast, Battlefield 1 with 25% render scale was how i played the game for a long time. But it definitely holds a special place in my heart.
RGinHD: here's a crappy laptop.
Me: still better than my little bro's laptop.
Yeah, suuuuure it's his. Now how much ram and hard drive capacity? asking for a friend.
@@aarongreenfield9038 No, it really is his. My daily driver right now is a Ryzen 5 3500U 16 GBs of RAM and a 256 GBs SSD. My little brother's is a Core i5 5200U 4 GBs of RAM, without dedicated GPU and a 500 GB hard drive.
@@krazycharlie. Well at least get your little bro about 12 more gigs of ram. Really 4 gigs? that's like what I had on my old windows XP laptop 15 years ago. Probably before your brother was even born.
@@aarongreenfield9038 I really want him to have something better since he's pursuing a music production career. We'll se what happens this year but I'm not holding my breath, considering the prices of GPUs and other PC parts right now.
Wow. Just upgraded from a 940m to a RTX 3060 ti after years of saving, its a huge fucking world of difference lmao
I have no idea what to do with all this extra FPS
But I'll never forget the years it carried me through, playing Bordrlands 2, CSGO, Overwatch, TF2, Minecraft, even torturing it with Ark Survival and Space Engineers.
Rest well, little buddy.
A bit early, where’s my cookie?
Hi
You mean a biscuit since the channel is british
@@cybervoid8442 u right my bad
I have that x555 series laptop but its the older one with a geforce 820m and i5-4210U. It was my first pc/laptop that could run games as we had this ancient desktop from like 2006. I battered it so hard with games and editing so ended up changing the HDD to an SSD, changed the battery and installed a fresh copy of windows but its still as slow as before. Glad I built myself an actual desktop though last year.
I played through the entirety of The Witcher 3 and Dark Souls 3 on an Acer laptop with a 940M. I also put around 300+ hours into a playthrough of Skyrim. And for The Witcher 3 I actually played through the entire game with the laptop on my lap. Needless to say I ended up getting minor burns on my left thigh and the marks from it didn't go away for multiple years. That laptop served me well, but I am sooooooo glad to finally have a real gaming PC these days.
Have you heard of DXVK? It runs DX9, 10 and 11 games in Vulkan and in some cases like GTA IV, it helps a lot
I'll check it out, thanks :)
This is why i love your Channel!
gamed on an old inspiron with a 950m and a smashed screen for YEARS, still one of my favourite systems. that thing was a fucking beast
Dude.... you did a video in the GPU I used to play games with, the old laptop with the GPU was an Acer Travelmate P257-MG paired with an Intel i7 5500U Dual core CPU and 8GB DDR3 Ram. Thanks Dude ❤
Thats not actually that bad for a entry level laptop.. i would sell my soul for a laptop like that a few years ago haha
@@prodrt1 That laptop was quite cheap when I got it plus is was a 1080p 60hz display, it was definitely a good buy
I was playing Dota 2 and still play sometimes Valorant on a GT 525M - Dell Inspiron N5110. Upgraded the CPU to a 2920XM and to 16GB of ram. That laptop is 10 years old and still rocks. Nowadays mostly use it for work.
A cool comparison you could do is 940M vs 940MX. Laptops with both used to be similarly priced, so i think it would be a cool comparison.
MX isn't all that better to be honest, they were commonly paired with DDR3 VRAM and rarely with GDDR5. The DDR3 versions could not give the full performance of an MX and performed more or less like the M versions. The GDDR5 versions were half decent for playing E-sports games and older titles.
There is nothing to compare. Think in this way, the m series is like as if you are watching a movie, and the mx series is where you are actually in control of the movie.
@@bulutcagdas1071 if you have a DDR3 version could you somehow disable/bypass the integrated VRAM and allocate some of the systems faster DDR4 ram instead?
@@drunk_by_noon9231 Sound cool on theory but the added latency due to distance, plus having to run through the CPU to communicate with the RAM adds even more latency.
Btw, "U" CPUs have only 4 PCI-E lanes instead of standart 16 (4x1 or 2x2 if you got NVME SSD). So, this laptop is running it's 940M via PCI-E 3.0 x4 (or even x2 with pointed SSD). I don't think that 940M will do much better via x16, but for some games it might be important.
My Alienware laptop has a 960m. I was shocked when I realized later the i5 was a dual core. Even more shocked to learn there’s a dual core i7!
Wish I had this channel back in 2016. I’d have bought something else.
Same, got conned into buying a dual core i5 and a 920m. I mean the functioning of the laptop was soo bad when i bought it that i wonder why i never gave up on the system from t he very beginning. Now its only fit for watching yt. No gaming
@@astrojade4802 Mine was noisy and hot the day I bought it. Really should have sent it back. My kid plays Rocket League on it now. lol
Yeah Rocket league is playable until you start to realize that the 3d aspect gets harder and harder to identify at lower resolutions. i wanted to play rocket league at 60fps in high quality settings, but there is no way it will run properly without staggering,
I had the i5-7200U + 950M (or something like that) version of this laptop. It was fairly decent for running indie games, emulation and certain old MMOs which is all what I used it for along side coding work.
I have an old Sager laptop that has an old graphics card called hd7970m and its still a beast for gaming! it's tough to play recent games in 1080p but I'm totally happy to have a portable 720p gaming machine with me.
0:35 if you work in IT support and administration, you know. A decent portion of the HP and Dell SFF PCs I've integrated actually have dual-core i7 processors.
I must say, I appreciate the love you give these older series like the 900M series. Even if the 940M is fairly weak by today's standards, it's great to know that in the right games, it holds its own.
MSI AFTERBURNER CAN WORK! Just got it to work yesterday after having the same problem and getting really confused, all you have to do is: (not -untrusted, that doesn't work)
Go to steam launch settings, and type: -allow_third_party_software
Playing Mafia II after installing Nvidia Physx seems so smooth
0:35 I know about dual core i7 CPUs, after all, have a look at the i7-4510U CPU, it's the CPU that is in the laptop I'm using now as my daily driver ;)
6:13 ooh lovely, someone else that listens to "Non Stop Pop FM" eh? Fantastic, that's the station I listen to as well :)
Basically my laptop, i5 - 6200u, 920MX 2GB and 12 GB RAM and 1TB HDD. Under Arch Linux I can run a modded Minecraft server and a Instance of modded Minecraft on a secondary 1080p monitor at 75+ FPS with over 100 Firefox tabs, a bunch of libreoffice documents.
if you have a lot of ram then mc will run even on a celeron
My old, limping along laptop is a woeful i5 core duo with the 940mx. I've squeezed a surprising amount of performance out of it after repasting everything. I use linux mint, and hover around 40-50 fps in Minecraft 1.7.10 with about 40 mods and a view distance of 12, though it slows down if you are loading too many chunks. In vanilla + optifine I could run around 35-40 fps at a stupid view distance of 32, though I would pause and let chunks load in for a sec. I can hold 60 fps in most older games at medium graphics. I even got stable defusion working on the 2gb of vram, but it took 5-10 minutes for a 512x512 image and would crash making anything bigger. I also had to downgrade the Nvidia drivers to 470 in order to utilize the cuda cores, since apparently they disable them on more recent drivers. Overall its good enough for light usage, but looking forward to a new laptop or build in the next year; I'm dying for some next gen speed.
I have a 940mx and an i7-7500U on my laptop. Let's just say that I used to play every single game released after 2011 on 720p resolution. I gamed 3 years on it before switching back to a pc for my projects.
Better than my previous laptop. Now i have a RTX 3060
Btw great video i subed and liked
About Gta iv and its optimization. There's a mod that fixes it, name is Dxvk. What it does is swap the api to Vulkan. In the process fixing stutters and performance instability. Makes the game very playable.
Next time you try GTA IV try it with the DXVK & fusionfix mods! it completely fixes the stutter, and increases fps. it makes the game actually enjoyable to play.
I have an Acer with 940M (4GB) + i5 6200u, 16GB RAM, and Full HD TN. Bought for 800€ in December 2015. I still play Minecraft on it, even though I have a 2nd laptop with MX250 ( smaller screen). And in general, it would still be a nice laptop for office use if:
- the audio card on the motherboard was not failing
- the USB ports were not worn out
- the fan did not have a worn out bearing, making it vibrate
- the screen did not have scratches, pressure marks, and terrible viewing angles
I had a DELL Latitude 3470 with that GPU and an i7-6500U. The 940M was the default GPU choice bundled in most corporate laptops from the likes of HP, DELL and Lenovo, through 2016/2017, before being swapped by the MX150 later on. I was able to play and complete the Spyro Reignited Trilogy on that CPU + GPU combo, but at 720p at the Lowest settings and with framerate locked at 30FPS. 20-25FPS was the result.
I'd love to see a video on the gtx 950m, it being the last GTX card at the bottom of the range before Pascal, when mobile GPUs saw a huge jump in performance relative to desktop GPUs
I have a laptop with this GPU, its definitely underpowered but it makes more sense to look at it more as a laptop that can do light gaming rather than as a budget gaming laptop. I have used it to play older games like Alien Isolation, Rome 2, and mass effect 3. For those it is perfectly adequate assuming you keep your expectations in check. I bought mine for $500 in 2016 for school, and it made sense to get this over the similarly priced ultra books that had no discrete graphics at all.
I used to have one of these laptops as my main machine. It was an x556u with the 6200u, gt 940mx 2 gb ddr3 and 8gb soldered ddr4 and 128gb ssd. It was a good entry into gaming for me as it was my first laptop that was my own. It played quite well with games like tf2, minecraft and Lol. Even fortnite ran half decently back then. It sounded like an quiet jet engine and was like a toaster in the 80-90 degrees sustained load. The main issues were the dd3 used in the 940mx rather than gddr5 and also the 1080p screen which meant that i couldn't play anything more demanding at native res. It was also really nice for the few first months but then the crappy plastic case started to show scratches on the lid and palmrest due to being completley made out of plastic and being used as my school machine and everyday gaming machine for 2 years or so. As after 2 years of usage it looked and still looks like crap, the paint is coming off everywhere, hinge cover snapped off, even the w key is slightly melted (yeah like literally melted) and esc is missing.
I used to play a lot of League of Legends and Overwatch with this. It even ran Rise of the Tomb Raider and Sniper Elite 4 really well (but with very low settings and resolution). My laptop was the model with 4K native resolution so that's a pretty sweet bonus by itself. And yes, some indie games can run run at 4K with this GPU.
Funny you upload this, I have an HP Envy M7 that has this same GPU with the i7-6500u and a 1080p screen. Have not tried to play any games on it since HP’s software loves to lock the FPS to 30 then bump it to 60 and go back and forth and back and forth causing all kinds of issues in games. It’s not hardware related throttling, but software. One of these days I’ll be lazy enough to format and reinstall, then try again. Cant imagine the performance will be much better with the i7 than an i5 but it could be interesting, given the 1080p screen
I have an older asus laptop that's been just a loyal unit. 4720hq i7, upgraded ram to 12gb, threw a 500gb ssd instead of the 5400rpm harddrive, and came with a 950m(ddr3 version 😭) but honestly I've always known her limits and I haven't been disappointed. Good machine
This could be the only PC channel that does free giveaways and most of us will be like "Yeah nah."
Had one Aspire E5-573G-553C and "upgraded" it with adding 8GB RAM with 240GB SSD, ofcourse replaced HDD in optibay . Bought in 2016 and owned till end of 2020; Sold it cause old version onboard HDMI can't handle 3440x1440(100Hz). To be honest, I was satisfied with the performance, taking into account the fact that I was bought for the WoW game(daily/weekly quests/5 ppl. dungeons). I think the main drawback is GDDR3 with 64bit bus, there was a feeling that dedicatedGPU could do more.
Still rocking a i5 7200U 940mx laptop. TW3 runs at stable 30+ FPS on medium to high graphics (the original, not the "updated" version). I even beat up Elden Ring on ~30 FPS with it.
Amazing graphic card for its age and price range IMO.
Hii!! Love your videos mate!. Could you please cover the geforce 920m next? It was a really common cheap laptop graphics chip but can still run fallout 4, fortnite, assasins creed at 768p low settings. Thank you chap!
I have a 25W MX250 (4GB GDDR5) in my HP Envy business laptop/tablet, it's the absolute minimum to play modern games. It is about twice as fast as the 940M.
Games like Overwatch or GTA 5 run fine at native 1080 resolution (100%), intense games like Battlefield 5 provide only stable 60 fps at 720p.
Fortunately, I run most of the time games like Rimworld on it which run perfectly fine on the iGPU of the i7-10510U.
Thanks, I was gonna see a deal for the mx930, if the 940 is bad as that hell no I'm buying that laptop, thank you so much man
Processors with the letter "U" at the end of the their description will adversely impact the performance of your game. Here's a fact: I have a Intel i7 4700mq (8 CPUs) laptop with a nvidia gt755m graphics (2013 model), and I am able to play some very demanding games from 2018, upwards eg, forza horizon 4, and battlefield 5 at a solid 30-40 fps and a steady 60 fps for fifa 20.
I remember I had an old acer laptop with a 920M in it, played quite a few games on it, it was my first introduction into pc gaming.
As a person that still daily drives this exact laptop, It is 5 year old entry level pc. At that time I played all modern games of that era at high settings 45 fps 720p of course. Its just that huge leap in technology and game graphics that killed this card. And believe me the main problem is not the gpu but cpu. That 2 core i5 is struggling when you open a single app. I still do all of my jobs on this boy and for the games that It can't run, I use geforce now. And some of your benchmarks seems like suffering from something. I played GTA5 in all high settings and textures set to very high and I get the same fps as yours. For cs:go I don't drop above 120 fps all times. And best thing about this computer is the display. It can be overclocked up to 95Hz without hassle. I was planning to change my laptop, but thanks to shortages, high prices etc etc It seems like I'll be stuck with this laptop for one or two more years.
Man going from a 940mx/i5 7th laptop to a i5 4790/750ti desktop was such a huge upgrade for me lol. My laptop for some reason didn't even ran csgo over 10fps
You can launch csgo with msi afterburner layout.
You can go to RTSS and add a profile for csgo executable with enabling stealth mode and set launch options on steam with this command:
"-allow_third_party_software"
It works for me.
Facts, COD Warzone works on GT 940M and GT 745M with modded driver
As a “Proud” owner of a laptop with a GeForce 940MX, I can say that the X variant does perform noticeably better. You can also expect up to 10 FPS gains in some titles, atleast with the gddr5 version
witrh Odyssey coming out for Elite, I'd love to see some benchmarks on some of these mobile GPUs also being inclusive of that game as well as on some of the lower-end GPUs to show how that particular game runs. A lot of people are going to want to probably give the new expansion a try and go and buy something silly not realizing it won't run.
Bro, I really love your videos but please, increase the recording volume of your microphone. The volume is too low compared to the average volume of other videos across youtube. Or at least speak louder. Other than that, great job!