I’m planning to buy a framework laptop for when I start university next year and was wondering if it can run games too. I’m only thinking of simple games like stardew valley, maybe some heavier stuff if it can run it.

Can it? If anyone’s had a play with the laptop’s gaming then any advice would be helpful

  • Nexus_fabB
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    1 year ago

    Yes they can. And some more demanding things as well. Especially the AMD variants have some impressive performance.

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    1 year ago

    The Radeon 780M iGPU on the Ryzen 7 7840U has as much power as an old RX 580 graphics card. You’ll be fine.

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    1 year ago

    The phawks, eta prime and notebookcheck.net all have good info on the amd version can do. I posted a similiar question a few days and those resources were suggested to me. The 780m is a much more capable igpu then i realized. Even cyberpunk 2077 with lower res and settings can run. The 13 ich is 60 hz and slow grey to grey so i wouldnt plan any competitive gaming especially fps.

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    1 year ago

    Stardew Valley is so low-intensity it can run on a 10-year-old basic laptop. I’d recommend the 7840U motherboard if you will get into more intense games like Forza Horizon 5 or Elden Ring, otherwise you can just pick the 7640U.

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    1 year ago

    Yes. All of the FW laptop models can play Stardew Valley.

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    1 year ago

    Yea you definitely can, for school and a simple game like stardew valley? An 11th gen will work just fine, there is no reason to buy the newest version that is coming up.

    Yea, I enjoy the genre of games. I personally play games no problem on Ubuntu 22.04 with steam.

    • MrKrabs8MyflipflopsOPB
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      1 year ago

      Well I’m hoping the laptop will get me through the whole of uni and I’ve saved enough to get the 16 next month, so I don’t see why not. But thank you, I appreciate the help. Honestly I didn’t even know you could buy older framework models