Why gaming laptops are actually great for back-to-school and content creation
It may seem counterintuitive, but science proves the benefits of something you’re probably already doing occasionally: goofing off.
A recent study by researchers at the National Institutes of Health published in the journal Cell Reports found that most learning occurs during breaks between bouts of intensive studying as your brain integrates your hard work. Another study found that video games provide more relief from work-related cognitive fatigue than actively meditating or doing nothing.
Viewed just in that light, the best laptop for a college student could be the one that does double-duty as a gaming machine. But laptops that are good for games, like those with GPUs from graphics-card pioneer NVIDIA, also let you power through schoolwork that other machines can’t do as well, such as assignments requiring up-to-date science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) applications and apps used for creative work such as graphic design and video editing.
High frame rates. Efficient power usage. Hyper-detailed graphics. Computational loads shared between CPUs and ultra-capable GPUs. Such game-friendly specs also make for great student laptops as they can power through the most demanding number crunching, design, and content creation tasks without breaking a sweat.
As one benchmark, NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 40 Series laptops promise up to 22 times faster performance on top engineering, computer science, data science, and economics applications, 1.5 times faster performance for leading design and video editing applications, and more game frames per second than average laptops without a dedicated GPU. That makes it feasible to elevate STEM-related studies and creative work, while supercharging the latest games with realistic
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