I want to buy a new laptop. Does anyone know if a 200-300 dollar laptop can handle Tanki Online?

[demon09 89]

Can a cheap laptop handle Tanki or do I have to pay for a 300+ dollar gaming laptop to play Tanki on max graphics?

Edited November 22, 2024 by demon09

[Hypersomnia 1,695]

if your budget is 300 then playing max graphics tanki will be just a dream.

buy a used laptop you might reach average performance, im not even sure you can get new laptops this cheap that wont give you radiation poisoning.

lowest graphics 300 should be enough if you searched hard enough and bought a used beefier laptop

[demon09 89]

On 11/22/2024 at 11:08 AM, Hypersomnia said:

if your budget is 300 then playing max graphics tanki will be just a dream.

buy a used laptop you might reach average performance, im not even sure you can get new laptops this cheap that wont give you radiation poisoning.

lowest graphics 300 should be enough if you searched hard enough and bought a used beefier laptop

Thanks for the input. Do you have any idea what Tanki's perfomance requirements are for max graphics?

[Hypersomnia 1,695]

On 11/22/2024 at 12:25 PM, demon09 said:

Thanks for the input. Do you have any idea what Tanki's perfomance requirements are for max graphics?

no but i imagine them not being high since the game is simple.

my 3060 laptop can easily deal with max graphic tanki but 3060s alone cost like 300 so its out of your reach

[demon09 89]

On 11/22/2024 at 11:34 AM, Hypersomnia said:

no but i imagine them not being high since the game is simple.

my 3060 laptop can easily deal with max graphic tanki but 3060s alone cost like 300 so its out of your reach

Is 3060 a graphic card? 

Could you guess about what graphic requirements are needed for Tanki? Like what the ballpark is, from being able to play on the lowest graphic settings, to the max.

Edited November 22, 2024 by demon09

[Risk 1,249]

Topic moved from Game Discussion.

[Hypersomnia 1,695]

On 11/22/2024 at 12:37 PM, demon09 said:

Is 3060 a graphic card? 

Could you guess about what graphic requirements are needed for Tanki? Like what the ballpark is, from being able to play on the lowest graphic settings, to the max.

yeah the 3060 graphics card.

max graphic tanki would probably be achieved by around a 1000$ laptop

lowest 300 should be enough if i had to guess.

you can just buy used iPhone for 300+ and play max graphic tanki lol my 15 Pro Max is rocking like 300+ FPS max graphics. But if youre only a laptop/pc gamer then 300 bucks should give you a playable minimum setting experience

Edited November 22, 2024 by Hypersomnia

[demon09 89]

On 11/22/2024 at 12:30 PM, Hypersomnia said:

yeah the 3060 graphics card.

max graphic tanki would probably be achieved by around a 1000$ laptop

lowest 300 should be enough if i had to guess.

you can just buy used iPhone for 300+ and play max graphic tanki lol my 15 Pro Max is rocking like 300+ FPS max graphics. But if youre only a laptop/pc gamer then 300 bucks should give you a playable minimum setting experience

Thanks.

[Son_Goku 514]

I'd just save for something decent, honestly. Any new laptop for 300 bucks or less won't last you long, and you will have to go from one 300 bucks laptop to another. For that price range you could get something that's used I guess, but that's about it.

From what I know, you don't want a laptop with eMMC storage since it's slower than SSD, and I'd recommend getting one that has more than 8 GB of RAM.

Edited November 22, 2024 by Son_Goku

[demon09 89]

On 11/22/2024 at 12:47 PM, Son_Goku said:

I'd just save for something decent, honestly. Any new laptop for 300 bucks or less won't last you long, and you will have to go from one 300 bucks laptop to another. For that price range you could get something that's used I guess, but that's about it.

From what I know, you don't want a laptop with eMMC storage since it's slower than SSD, and I'd recommend getting one that has more than 8 GB of RAM.

Thanks for the reply.

I found a laptop that has:

Internal memory RAM (GB) 8

Total storingcapacity 512

Graphic card model geforce rtx 2050

512 GB M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD unit

8 GB DDR4 RAM memory

Will this laptop be able to handle Tanki on the highest graphical settings?

Tanki recommends:

• Processor: Intel Core i5-i7 from 4th generation
• RAM: 4096-8192 Mb
• Graphic memory: 2048 Mb or more

Edited November 22, 2024 by demon09

[Son_Goku 514]

Any GPU that goes by the name RTX will outperform integrated graphics (for example Intel Xe) and 8 GB RAM are barely enough for today's standards, it can happen that you just run out of RAM, which may cause stuttering. Tanki's recommended CPUs are more than a decade old, but it would still be good to know what CPU your laptop would have.

You have to consider that the bigger the GPU, the more power will be needed to run your laptop, so the battery will drain faster and the laptop will run hotter. I don't know enough about that hardware to guarantee whether you will be able to run the game at max graphics, but depending on the CPU, you should be able to run Tanki smoothly, in one way or another.

Edited November 22, 2024 by Son_Goku

[demon09 89]

On 11/22/2024 at 1:25 PM, Son_Goku said:

Any GPU that goes by the name RTX will outperform integrated graphics (for example Intel Xe) and 8 GB RAM are barely enough for today's standards, it can happen that you just run out of RAM, which may cause stuttering. Tanki's recommended CPUs are more than a decade old, but it would still be good to know what CPU your laptop would have.

You have to consider that the bigger the GPU, the more power will be needed to run your laptop, so the battery will drain faster and the laptop will run hotter. I don't know enough about that hardware to guarantee whether you will be able to run the game at max graphics, but depending on the CPU, you should be able to run Tanki at least smoothly.

Thanks.

[Son_Goku 514]

If I were you, I'd save a bit more and go with laptops in the range of 500-600€. They offer a significant boost in performance since they have newer processors, and most of them also have 16 GB RAM. I don't know where you're from, but there's lots of deals on Amazon currently, maybe you could find something good.

The best integrated graphics are Intel Xe, or an AMD equivalent. I wouldn't recommend to get anything with Intel UHD or worse. Any RTX graphics card should outperform integrated graphics.

Edited November 22, 2024 by Son_Goku

[demon09 89]

On 11/22/2024 at 2:03 PM, Son_Goku said:

If I were you, I'd save a bit more and go with laptops in the range of 500-600€. They offer a significant boost in performance since they have newer processors, and most of them also have 16 GB RAM. I don't know where you're from, but there's lots of deals on Amazon currently, maybe you could find something good.

The best integrated graphics are Intel Xe, or an AMD equivalent. I wouldn't recommend to get anything with Intel UHD or worse. Any RTX graphics card should outperform integrated graphics.

The laptop I looked at used to cost 868,00 euros, which was lowered to 517,48, so it's a shame that it's not as good as the laptops in the 500-600 euros range that you've seen. I'll look for betters deals.

Sorry, but I don't know anything about graphics, so when you recommend me these things I don't know what you're talking about. I'll try to look for the things you mentioned though.

Edited November 22, 2024 by demon09

[Son_Goku 514]

A laptop with an RTX 2050 for 800+ euros, with only 8 GB of RAM, is straight up scam. For around the same price range, 600-900€, you can already get some with the RTX 3050 and 16GB of RAM, with current gen CPUs. That's maybe already overkill for Tanki.

[demon09 89]

On 11/22/2024 at 2:52 PM, Son_Goku said:

A laptop with an RTX 2050 for 800+ euros, with only 8 GB of RAM, is straight up scam. For around the same price range, 600-900€, you can already get some with the RTX 3050 and 16GB of RAM, with current gen CPUs. That's maybe already overkill for Tanki.

Wow, I'm glad I didn't settle on that then.

I found another laptop on Amazon for 309,87 euros which has a 12th generation In-tel Alder Lake N97 (up to 3,6 Ghz) Gaming Notebook, 16 GB DDR4 RAM 512 GB SSD, WiFi, BT5.0, Type_C, USB3.2, HDMI.

It's cheaper than you recommend, but is it good enough?

Edited November 22, 2024 by demon09

[Son_Goku 514]

On 11/22/2024 at 3:00 PM, demon09 said:

Wow, I'm glad I didn't settle on that then.

I found another laptop on Amazon for 420,89 euros with 12:a N97 CPU (up to 3,6 GHz), game logging book 16 GB DDR4 RAM 512 GB SSD (expands to 2 TB), WiFi, BT5.1, C-typ, USB3.2, HDMI, 16 GB RAM och 512 GB SSD.

That CPU, the N97, seems to be weak, and the integrated graphics don't seem to give you enough performance for Tanki on high settings. I'll send you some via PM

[AntiStatic 21]

If you want to play only tanki with it, then you dont need to spend loads of money. Mine is Ryzen 5 5500u, vega 7, (for integrated graphics its a must to run on dual channel memory for maximum performance).  (8GB+8GB) 16gb ram and no problem running tanki on high settings. 

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RTX cards are overkill for tanki. For example this integrated graphics can play GTA 5 with normal/high settings which is graphically more demanding game than tanki. (just youtube search vega 7 GTA 5 or just vega 7)  You cant go wrong with choosing vega 7. Its more budget friendly and dont drain unnecessarily your battery like dedicated graphics cards. 

 

Edited November 22, 2024 by AntiStatic

[ThirdOnion 4,898]

On 11/22/2024 at 6:13 AM, demon09 said:

I found a laptop that has:

Graphic card model geforce rtx 2050

Will this laptop be able to handle Tanki on the highest graphical settings?

Anything in the RTX series of graphics cards is absolutely overkill for Tanki.

Tanki is not a graphically demanding game. A mid-range graphics card from ten years ago would be sufficient for maximum graphics settings.

In my experience, the bottleneck is the CPU. Game logic, physics, etc is more taxing then rendering is. This can be observed by comparing frame rates in an empty battle vs a battle full of players on the same map.

What are the specs of your current machine? What kind of frame rates do you get now? Have you tried enabling higher graphics settings and checked their performance impact?

Edited November 22, 2024 by ThirdOnion

[Sabry 1,072]

You may find the system requirements here, the minimum one and the recommended one, but I have to say I agree with this statement:

On 11/22/2024 at 11:08 AM, Hypersomnia said:

if your budget is 300 then playing max graphics tanki will be just a dream.

 

A PC worth 300 euros/USD will very (veeery) unlikely handle max graphics, or if it does, it won't support it for a long time, not to mention the low fps, so it won't be smooth either way.

[ThirdOnion 4,898]

On 11/22/2024 at 4:25 PM, Sabry said:

A PC worth 300 euros/USD will very (veeery) unlikely handle max graphics, or if it does, it won't support it for a long time, not to mention the low fps, so it won't be smooth either way.

I would posit that you could buy a machine that would handle max graphics fine for that sum - but you’d have to buy used, not new.

[demon09 89]

On 11/22/2024 at 10:00 PM, ThirdOnion said:

Anything in the RTX series of graphics cards is absolutely overkill for Tanki.

Tanki is not a graphically demanding game. A mid-range graphics card from ten years ago would be sufficient for maximum graphics settings.

In my experience, the bottleneck is the CPU. Game logic, physics, etc is more taxing then rendering is. This can be observed by comparing frame rates in an empty battle vs a battle full of players on the same map.

What are the specs of your current machine? What kind of frame rates do you get now? Have you tried enabling higher graphics settings and checked their performance impact?

My current laptop has an Intel Core i3-7100U CPU @ 2.40GHz, 2400

It can't run Tanki smoothy even on the lowest graphical settings. The game lags.

A laptop I'm interested (link) in has a:

-12: e generations In_tel Alder Lake N97-processor

-12-watts chip with 4 core and 4 threads, which supports CPU-speeds up to 3,6 GHz

- 16 GB RAM and 512 GB ROM, 16 GB DDR4 memory.

It's advertised as a gaming laptop.

Do you think it can run Tanki smoothly?

Edited November 23, 2024 by demon09

[demon09 89]

On 11/22/2024 at 11:25 PM, Sabry said:

You may find the system requirements here, the minimum one and the recommended one, but I have to say I agree with this statement:

A PC worth 300 euros/USD will very (veeery) unlikely handle max graphics, or if it does, it won't support it for a long time, not to mention the low fps, so it won't be smooth either way.

Yeah, I've decided to give up on getting a laptop that can handle Tanki on the highest graphics. I'm happy getting one that can simply run it smoothy on any graphical settings.

[Ghost 279]

On 11/23/2024 at 1:45 PM, demon09 said:

Yeah, I've decided to give up on getting a laptop that can handle Tanki on the highest graphics. I'm happy getting one that can simply run it smoothy on any graphical settings.

Are you happy with the answers you received ? May I close this topic then ? 

[demon09 89]

On 11/23/2024 at 1:53 PM, Ghost said:

Are you happy with the answers you received ? May I close this topic then ? 

Can you please let the topic be up for a while? I'd like to see what people say about the laptop I'm interested in buying.