Hi, Just to expand a bit on Szilárd’s excellent answer, you can find a list of benchmarks for mobile cards here: http://www.notebookcheck.net/Mobile-Graphics-Cards-Benchmark-List.844.0.html
Kind regards Dries > On 03 Feb 2016, at 15:14, Szilárd Páll <pall.szil...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > What exactly do you want from the laptop besides performance? > Autonomy, weight, size restrictions? > > If you want something with a decent amount of autonomy, just get a > high-end Skylake laptop and do your runs on your workstation or > cluster. If you care about battery time, you may as well forget about > a powerful system (even a standalone GPU may not be worth it unless > you can get switchable graphics) - or at least plan to put effort into > avoiding high CPU/GPU load when on battery. > > If you want max performance, get a beast that's often referred to as > "portable workstation" with a high-performance CPU (not 15W part) and > a GTX 970M or 980M. AFAIK NVIDIAs site has a section where they > advertise gaming laptops with these high-end mobile chips. > > Unless you want to suffer with Windows, I'd also recommend looking > around before buying and making sure that you don't end up with some > niche hardware that does not run well under GNU/Linux. I can highly > recommend System76, they have some monsters too - I have even seen > recently a rave review about a portable workstation they offer with a > desktop CPU. > > Cheers, > -- > Szilárd > > > > On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 11:17 AM, Yasser Almeida Hernández > <yasser.almeida.hernan...@chemie.uni-hamburg.de> wrote: >> Dear Joao, >> >> I am aware that laptops are not the proper hardware to run MD simulations. I >> do my runs in workstations designed for that purpose. The hardware I want to >> buy is not just for simulations, but for general private/work purpose, but I >> would like to have a device robust enough to run calculations. My question >> was to get some thoughts about an ideal/optimal hardware. >> >> Best >> >> Yasser >> >> ------------------------ >> Message: 6 >> Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2016 10:53:31 +0100 >> From: Jo?o Henriques <joao.henriques.32...@gmail.com> >> To: Discussion list for GROMACS users <gmx-us...@gromacs.org> >> Subject: Re: [gmx-users] Laptop features for MD simulations - >> recommendations >> Message-ID: >> <calc+hgt7zsmbkwitu11dprvh4m_qyw2btkgnsq2tvb70o71...@mail.gmail.com> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 >> >> Dear Yasser, >> >> I am by no means an expert on hardware, but I would strongly advise against >> buying a laptop for the specific purpose of running (any and all) MD >> simulations. A desktop is much better suited platform for such a task, as >> you should be able to get a much bigger bang for your buck (this is the >> main reason, but there are more cons). >> >> Notice that I am not saying that you cannot run MD simulations on a laptop, >> I'm just advising against it. In fact, you could probably run MD >> simulations on a smartphone if you wanted to, but it doesn't sound like a >> very good investment of your time and money. In my *personal opinion*, the >> same holds true for the laptop. >> >> Best regards, >> /J >> >> On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 10:30 AM, Yasser Almeida Hern?ndez < >> yasser.almeida.hernan...@chemie.uni-hamburg.de> wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I want to buy a laptop suitable and powerful enough for MD simulations >>> with GROMACS (mostly membrane/protein systems). Could you recommend >>> optimal >>> features for this goal? >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> Yasser >>> >>> -- >>> Yasser Almeida Hern?ndez >>> PhD student >>> Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology >>> Department of Chemistry >>> University of Hamburg >>> Martin-Luther-King-Platz 6 >>> 20146 Hamburg >>> Germany >>> +49 40 42838 2845 >>> yasser.almeida.hernan...@chemie.uni-hamburg.de >>> office: Grindelallee 117, room 250c >>> >>> -- >>> Gromacs Users mailing list >>> >>> * Please search the archive at >>> http://www.gromacs.org/Support/Mailing_Lists/GMX-Users_List before >>> posting! >>> >>> * Can't post? 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