I am going to buy a laptop for video editing and light gaming (esports or other casual games)

The options are 3070, 3070ti, 4060 equipped laptops. Why am I coming here rather than doing my research? because i spend a lot of time but couldn’t understand the best one for my use case and tight budget.

USAGE: video editing and light gaming (mostly esports titles)
CONFUSION: aren’t 3070 laptops, with more cores and faster ram, supposed to be better in video editing? or is 4060m, with its higher clock speed, NVENC, smaller chip (4/5nm), higher efficiency and AV1 (sorry idk some of these) better? is there something i need to look about the wattage?

I’m stuck with these as I’m in a tight budget. Can’t go AMD because I need the adobe stuff optimized
I have a monitor and i know CPU and other stuff but I’m kind of lacking in the GPU knowledge so please provide opinion based on the GPUS only regardless of every other thing.

  • C-Lago@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Best affordable multithread CPU. Handbrake is happy enough with 6 cores, diminishing returns at 8 core and more, might different to other software. AV1 is just an video encoding format, it’s just H265/HEVC but royalty-free. You could use the CPU to encode, very slow but very efficient. I’m not sure if RTX3000/4000 or RX7000M has an encoder, Intel ARCs do.

    GPU tends to be 20x faster, but usually 90% efficient in compression size or VMAF quality, than just CPU alone. Preferred to have GPU in 4K compression, somewhat pointless at 1080p in recently released CPU like 12th Gen.

    Depends on the esports game, better CPU Clock and L2/L3 Cache is needed for higher stable 165fps with a stable RAM, GPU barely matters unless you aim for High/Ultra graphics settings, it will and go for bigger VRAM size. 3070, 3070Ti, 4060 are barely different. 4060 if you want to test RT in lower watts with new DLSS3 and FG support, RT chokes VRAM though.