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Playing games on 4k resolution
I have an Alienware 17 r5 i9 laptop. The specs are:-
1) 2.9 GHz Intel Core i9-8950HK Six-Core
2) 32GB DDR4
3) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (8GB GDDR5X)
I am connecting my laptop to a tv which is 1080p 60hz by hdmi. I play games on 60fps. My tv is very old so I need something new. I am planning on buying a 4k 120hz screen and I will connect it to my laptop. I will play games on 1080p 120fps because my laptop is not powerful enough to handle gaming on 4k. Later on in the future when I buy a laptop which has a stronger graphics card I will play games on 4k 120fps.
The problem is that there are people who are telling me that I can't play games on 4k on a laptop and I have to get a desktop pc if I want to play games on 4k because the graphics card of a desktop pc is stronger than a graphics card of a laptop. Those people believe that you have to play games on 1440p if you want to play games on a laptop.
For example I know a guy who has a desktop pc and his specs are rtx 3080ti, i7 11700k cpu and 32gb ram. He told me that he tried to play modern demanding games on ultra graphics settings on 4k and he said that his pc struggled to run the game and he got a low fps which is around 60fps. Thus he is playing those games on ultra graphics settings on 1440p so he gets higher fps in games.
Why is this happening? I think that if you play a game which is extremely demanding and it has graphics which are very detailed on ultra graphics settings on 4k then of course your pc won't be able to handle that game and it doesn't matter if you play the game on a desktop pc or a laptop. You have to lower the graphics settings to high\highest if you want to play games like that on 4k.
Thus it's the fault of the game and not the pc. So then later on in the future when I get a laptop which has a stronger graphics card I should be able to play games on 4k 100fps+ as long as I don't over do it with the graphics settings in the game?