NBA 2K15 PC specifications released!

[Lagoa]

I run FIFA 15 smooooooth here, max/1080p and 4x AA. No frame drop, lag or sttutering. My config:

AMD Phenon II X4 965
AMD R9 270X
8GB RAM

Hooooooope run 2K15 on max now! =)

[xerion]

I run FIFA 15 smooooooth here, max/1080p and 4x AA. No frame drop, lag or sttutering. My config:

AMD Phenon II X4 965
AMD R9 270X
8GB RAM

Hooooooope run 2K15 on max now! =)

Pretty much the same for me but I have a much weaker Gigabyte GTX 460 1 GB card.. hopefully we'll be fine anyway

[xKrNMBoYx]

I run FIFA 15 smooooooth here, max/1080p and 4x AA. No frame drop, lag or sttutering. My config:

AMD Phenon II X4 965
AMD R9 270X
8GB RAM

Hooooooope run 2K15 on max now! =)

Yeah that's what I was thinking also. Fifa 15 is based on the Ignite Engine and though it's not completely advanced compared to their non-Ignite Engine games it still has some good visual upgrades. Hopefully a decent desktop can run 2K15 well.

Laptops are not made for Gaming. Every 500$ PC has more power than most of these 2000€ "Gaming"-Laptops! Powerful GPUs need good cooling and in Laptops you just don't have the Space for it.
A Desktop always gets you way more Performance for your money.

Cooling is an issue with mobile gaming. Some laptops have decent dual fan setups that allow the components to work at full potential. The thinner ones do not. Not all $500 Gaming PCs are the same. For $2000+ Gaming Laptop you basically can get an Quad-Core i7 that boosts up to 3GHz+, 8GB/16GB of RAM, SSD/HDD, and in most cases GTX X70+ GPU. I'll give you an example.

MSI GS60 - i7-4710MQ (4-Cores/Boost up to 3.5GHz), GTX 870M (Equivalent of a GTX 760 Desktop GPU), 16GB of RAM, 1TB HDD, 256GB SSD, 3K Display, etc.
All for a price of $2099.

The i7 in the Gaming laptops will probably outperform most Desktop CPU's except Intel's Desktop Variants of i5/i7 and maybe AMD's FX8XXX series processors. So let's build a similar desktop.

Processor ($120+)
Decent Motherboard ($60+)
GTX 760 ($250+)
16GB of RAM ($150+)
1TB HDD ($55)
256GB SSD ($100+)

Approximately $735 and I got that price by choosing the cheapest components in US $ and did not include the prices a reliable power supply, computer case, fans, heatsink, etc.

Desktop gaming is the ideal choice when looking at things performance wise or financially. My post is just to show that in most cases a $500 can't really outperform a $2000 or 2000€ in current technology.

But they won't be able to just upgrade their video card in most of those cases. I just ordered a GTX 770 for $300 from new egg, less than the low end $400 laptop you mentioned. But they are going to have to spend a lot more on a new gaming laptop or switch it up and buy a new decent PC.

I understand your ideas and agree with them. But it's not as simple as just upgrading a GPU for "these type of users." If they have been gaming on 8-10 year old laptop at this time there is no prior/decent desktop to upgrade just an GPU. Even if they had a desktop it would be a generic one at best a Dual-Core processor with integrated graphics. It would not have a reliable power supply and it would at max be 300W. You may be able to get a GTX 770 for $300 at newegg but they will need a new power supply, probably a better case for air flow, and some more case fans. That would raise the cost above the $450 of their old laptop. In the case they don't have a desktop they will pay at least $500 for a low/decent desktop, one which probably has an i3/AMD FX 6/8 Series at best, with maybe something in the GTX X60 at best. Some people have different priorities. Portability is increasingly becoming important, some want to game on the go meaning a laptop they can take with them and play games anywhere there is a power outlet. No desktop allows that because a mouse, keyboard, and monitor is required. I'm honestly one of those people. I have about 4 Desktops of different level of performance.

1) i7-4790K/GTX 780 (Mine)
2) Phenom II X6 1090T/Radeon 7850 (Brothers)
3) A4-4000/Radeon 4850 (Spare/Dad)
4) Athlon II 240/Radeon 4350 (Mom/TV Room)

Gaming at home is covered. My Gaming Laptop is for playing games occasionally at school when I'm there from 8AM-11PM (Friends, Class, Gym can only do so much) and when I travel. It has a decent processor (i7-3632QM), an okay graphics card (GT 650M OCed) for gaming at High-Settings for older/kind of new games, and Low-Settings for the fresh new games. I paid $900 for it but I regret not paying more and getting a more expensive/powerful laptop. The reason why I am okay with paying the high price is because I do more than gaming on the laptop. Architectural/3D Renderings, Graphic Design work, normal productivity stuff, etc. Then there's my 13" MBP I got for trading my PS4 for non gaming purposes.
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To the people who want to know if NBA 2K15 will run on their ~$400 laptop or their old $1000+ laptop from 5-10 years ago. You will probably hate the performance you get from 2K15 if it runs at all. A Desktop Core 2 Duo may be enough for 2K's System Requirements but most Core 2 Duos for laptops especially the cheaper models are less than 2GHz. The ones in the upper 2GHz and that hit 3GHz will probably only be in gaming laptops. That being said I would highly recommend thinking and building yourself a Gaming Desktop over getting a Gaming laptop. As someone who paid $900 for a gaming laptop just 2 years ago and then bought $100+ of upgrades. The laptop is already struggling to play new games like Thief, and any other new intensive games. It can still play games like Far Cry 3, and similar games on high but those are a few years old now. Buy a $500-800 desktop that will be able to play most if not all games on high/max settings. Keep your laptop for non gaming tasks. If your laptop feels slow in every day usage then you can use the money saved buying a desktop to buy a decent sized SSD which will be a night/day difference. If you already have a decent gaming desktop that can probably run 2K15 and other games fine, then I won't stop you from purchasing a gaming laptop. Just realize that the thick/heavier ones tend to have better cooling, while the thinner ones have more portability but lack the cooling so your performance will never be at full potential. You'll probably have to buy the laptops in the $2000+ range if you want to have a decent gaming performance for the next 2-5 years.

[Anunnaki]

Can I run nba 2k15 with this PC?

AMD Athlon™ X4 Quad-Core 740
4GB RAM
AMD Radeon R7 250 1GB/DDR5

[Vlad2010]

Can I run nba 2k15 with this PC?

AMD Athlon™ X4 Quad-Core 740
4GB RAM
AMD Radeon R7 250 1GB/DDR5

Damn. Look at minimum system requirements. Of course you can run it.

[Anunnaki]

Can I run nba 2k15 with this PC?

AMD Athlon™ X4 Quad-Core 740
4GB RAM
AMD Radeon R7 250 1GB/DDR5

Damn. Look at minimum system requirements. Of course you can run it.

I'm not sure are these requirements accurate, but thanks.

[xKrNMBoYx]

Can I run nba 2k15 with this PC?

AMD Athlon™ X4 Quad-Core 740
4GB RAM
AMD Radeon R7 250 1GB/DDR5

Damn. Look at minimum system requirements. Of course you can run it.

I'm not sure are these requirements accurate, but thanks.

Yea we're all not sure if the requirements are accurate either. But your PC does pass minimum. You have a FM2 based Athlon X4 740 that probably runs around 3.2GHz. It's based on their Trinity APUs so it is pretty decent, although it lacks L3 Cache. 4GB of RAM should be fine still, but more may be needed if your other programs use a lot of memory already. The R7 250 is also should be good enough to play the game at the least. The fact that it has GDDR5 memory instead of DDR3 is good. It has 384 Stream processors which is the same amount in the IGP Trinity/Richland/Lower Kaveri APUs. Seeing that it has less stream processors than a 7750 the performance is probably around a 7750/GTX 650. Smooth gameplay in the lower settings should be easy.

[Anunnaki]

Can I run nba 2k15 with this PC?

AMD Athlon™ X4 Quad-Core 740
4GB RAM
AMD Radeon R7 250 1GB/DDR5

Damn. Look at minimum system requirements. Of course you can run it.

I'm not sure are these requirements accurate, but thanks.

Yea we're all not sure if the requirements are accurate either. But your PC does pass minimum. You have a FM2 based Athlon X4 740 that probably runs around 3.2GHz. It's based on their Trinity APUs so it is pretty decent, although it lacks L3 Cache. 4GB of RAM should be fine still, but more may be needed if your other programs use a lot of memory already. The R7 250 is also should be good enough to play the game at the least. The fact that it has GDDR5 memory instead of DDR3 is good. It has 384 Stream processors which is the same amount in the IGP Trinity/Richland/Lower Kaveri APUs. Seeing that it has less stream processors than a 7750 the performance is probably around a 7750/GTX 650. Smooth gameplay in the lower settings should be easy.

Thank you for your clear explanation

[Michaelchu]

I have a AMD A6-3420M APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics CPU and AMD Radeon 6650M video card, what setting do you think i can play at?

[BronBron06]

I hope my Q6600 GT630 can run this

[jay-r]

Dommy73, when you mentioned 800 series I was thinking 880 gtx and automatically presumed that its price will exceed the price of gtx 780 ti by 25-30%. I was not aware of the rumored price of 880 gtx , so I might be wrong, but nonetheless its an unconfirmed rumor. Considering how nvidia initially priced GTX 780 Ti in comparison to GTX Titan everything's possible, but I still don't see nvidia pricing it lower than GTX 780 Ti.

Well, price drop for 700 series cards is almost inevitable, which is good reason alone. GTX 880 by gigabyte is confirmed by it's rep for september, so there's enough time to get new card before NBA launch.

Info about GTX 880: http://videocardz.com/51117/exclusive-n ... -september
Short version: Reference model will be 4Gb with 256bit bus, is expected to be just $400 – $450, with $500 tag can be expected for models with OC.

Leaked screen shows, taht it might even be able to outperform 780Ti - probably only on mainstream resolutions, while losing to it @4K etc
Source: http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/gigaby ... x-880.html

The marketing director for Gigabyte China said, that "GTX 800 series flagship product" is coming in September.

And as for the price theory: people are expecting it because it already happened for 600 series.
Sure, it's still unconfirmed, but it looks more and more promising.
Plus i'm still running on GTX 460, which keeps up so far (thanks to the fact I bought 2GB special edition), but it's kinda bottlenecking the rest of my rig.

Going back to the discussion we had on GPU upgrade..
There's a new beast in town and the name is GTX 970:
http://techreport.com/review/27067/nvid ... eviewed/13

If I would be up for an upgrade, GTX 970 is the card I would pick. Best p/p out-there. AMD will have to readjust R9 290x price..

[ThePointForward]

Yes, nVidia's price for GTX 970 is $330 and for GTX 980 it's $550.

GTX 970 is on par with GTX 780 while having much lower TDP (145W - beautiful) and launch price.

So if you're on a verge of upgrading... this is it.
And of course if have the budget you can always go for GTX 980 - if you're into very high-end gaming that is.

[Hadley88]

By the way its confirmed that the Disc-Version is only available in Europe and that its Steamworks.

[twai1012]

How about my pc spec?
i3 2100 3.1GHz
GTX750Ti 2G
8G Ram

[TBM]

As long as you have a 64 bit Win7 or Win8, you're good.

[xerion]

Yes, nVidia's price for GTX 970 is $330 and for GTX 980 it's $550.

GTX 970 is on par with GTX 780 while having much lower TDP (145W - beautiful) and launch price.

So if you're on a verge of upgrading... this is it.
And of course if have the budget you can always go for GTX 980 - if you're into very high-end gaming that is.

You're on GTX 460, right? Have you thought about upgrading? I've OC'ed my Gigabyte GTX 460 1 GB to stable 850 MHz on core, 1700 on shader and 2100 on memory so I can feel more ready for 2k15. Fifa 15 demo ran well on default values.

Do you (or anyone) think that AMD Phenom II X4 965 @ 3.8 GHz would bottleneck or limit the GTX 970?

[ThePointForward]

I was planning on upgrading ever since rumours of how good the 900 series (800 series back then) will be started to show up.
I'm gonna get the 970 after all, because of the taxes (hell, you should know, 21% taxes + 8-10% retail margin) and the fact that i really don't want to spend 1.5 month's worth of salary (part-time job) on a card when I might get more stable position.

[Hadley88]

The 970 seems like a great card for the money, but unless you want to play on very high resolutions no need for it. Even my 2GB GTX 770 can handle everything maxed out no problem. With the peasantboxes having Hardware from like 2010, I don't expect many Games to use that kind of Hardware.

[ThePointForward]

Sure, but we were talking about upgrading from 4 generations old card. If you have gtx 770 it would be complete waste of money to upgrade, that goes without saying.
Like I said before, if someone is about to upgrade, go for it - pleasant price, low TDP (meaning you'll pay even less for electricity ) and extraordinary performance.

[xKrNMBoYx]

By the way its confirmed that the Disc-Version is only available in Europe and that its Steamworks.

Ugh. I guess I'm downloading the game on the school's network as mine has a 250GB CAP that is a bit small already.

[jusagamerk26]

These are my specs:
Intel i3-3210 3.2ghz
gigabyte h61m-ds2 3.0
4gb ddr3
Amd radeon hd 5500 series
What do you think guys? Maybe i need to change my videocard. What do you suggest? Tia.

[railex777]

These are my specs:
Intel i3-3210 3.2ghz
gigabyte h61m-ds2 3.0
4gb ddr3
Amd radeon hd 5500 series
What do you think guys? Maybe i need to change my videocard. What do you suggest? Tia.

You need change i5 or i7 cpu. becouse i3 to low ;}

[twai1012]

As long as you have a 64 bit Win7 or Win8, you're good.

I have 64 bit Win 7.

[nowinskit]

You're on GTX 460, right? Have you thought about upgrading? I've OC'ed my Gigabyte GTX 460 1 GB to stable 850 MHz on core, 1700 on shader and 2100 on memory so I can feel more ready for 2k15. Fifa 15 demo ran well on default values.

Do you (or anyone) think that AMD Phenom II X4 965 @ 3.8 GHz would bottleneck or limit the GTX 970?

Yes for most games, gtx 770/r9 280x are too much for Phenom, the max GPU to your CPU i go will be r9 270 or gtx 660. I got a gtx 770 and paired it with my old Phenom 965 before upgrade to i7, and with Phenom depending the game it bottleneck a lot (like GPU running at 50% and game going at 30fps because Phenom cant push it up), some others less CPU intensive it play fine. You will need at least i5 to use all power from a 970.

These are my specs:
Intel i3-3210 3.2ghz
gigabyte h61m-ds2 3.0
4gb ddr3
Amd radeon hd 5500 series
What do you think guys? Maybe i need to change my videocard. What do you suggest? Tia.

You need change i5 or i7 cpu. becouse i3 to low ;}

i3 2nd generation is at same level with Phenom x4, phenom x4 is running fifa 15 demo fine, if nba 2k15 come near to it then i3 will have no problem to run the game.

[Laclips04]

Hi Guys,

I dont really know much about specifications of a computer/laptop. I currently have a laptop( HP DV7-7080EB I7-3610QM 8GB 1TB 17.3'' LED). I was wondering if i would be able to play nba 2k15 on this laptop. Nba 2k14 worked quit well it heated a bit but it was bearable. I also played fifa 14 on it but the laptop heated a lot on the lowest settings.

Thanks