Bonus Material: Horizon Forbidden West on a 65W RTX 4070 Mobile (Patreon)
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Hi everyone, Rich here. Per the weekly update, I'm currently working on a video about the HP Omen Transcend 14 with a paltry 65W RTX 4070. I say paltry, but I've often considered gaming laptops to occupy a curious space between handhelds and consoles - and in the case of Nvidia mobile GPUs, DLSS and frame-gen can do a lot of heavy lifting.
Above is Horizon Forbidden West at the laptop's 2880x1800 resolution using DLSS performance mode on high settings - effectively on par with PlayStation 5 in terms of quality settings at least. It will run above 30fps all day but here's the thing - system level v-sync with frame-gen gets you to 60fps in gameplay and the lag is... fine? Cutscenes are somewhat more problematic but this seems to be a problem with the Nixxes port in general.
I know a lot of people use frame-gen on Cyberpunk 2077 RT Overdrive to get to 60fps on kit like the desktop RTX 4070... so are there any scenarios where frame-gen 60fps on resource-constrained kit can actually work? I'm genuinely curious about what you make of the viability based on the example above.
I've made download versions too: https://www.digitalfoundry.net/bonus-material-horizon-forbidden-west-on-a-65w-rtx-4070-mobile