GPU for rendering

[TheJordan]

Hi!
I'm planning to buy a new laptop that I'll also use for Sony vegas pro. I'm wondering which of this cards (found in better HPs) would be best for the job:

AMD radeon R7 M340 (2GB) or FirePro W4190M(2GB) or AMD Radeon R7 M365X (1GB)

Thanks!

[Huffer]

The Firepro is a workstation card designed for engineering CAD and video production. It will game, but not what it was designed to do and the drivers for the Firepro are not optimized for gaming so do not get that one. The other two are going to be very similar but everything else being equal I would go with the one that has the higher number M365x even though it has less video memory. But I am frankly not sure of your descriptions and would prefer that you ask us to compare actual models. 

[TheJordan]

Is game performance really that similar to video editing software? Because that's where my confusion originates. I see people on (e. g. sony vegas) forums talking about gaming gpus but than as you mentioned workstation's gpus are also made for video production. I get the feeling I might be comparing two different things.

As for actual models I'm looking at several different choices, final choice will come down to this conversation and availability in my region. I'm looking 15.6" laptops, all with 6gen i7 (2C 4T)and SSD (or SSD+HDD) and AMD cards since vegas is known to work better with them. Now Probooks come wit M340 2gb, Zbooks have firepro 2 gb and I have found a rare elitebook with 1gb M365.

[Huffer]

The hardware for high end video whether gaming or engineering/production is essentially the same but the consumer Radeon cards and the engineering Firepro cards use different drivers emphasizing different functions is all I can explain. The laptops you are looking at are business models. They will game better than a standard laptop but that is not their forte. I have the Zbook 15 G3 and I found for a good price and added in an nVidia Quadro 2000M video card and it does what I need it to do which is project to a 4k monitor without stuttering and a little bit of video production and graphics rendering. I have benchmarked it on gaming benchmarks and it performs about like a GeForce 750ti which is a very popular budget gaming card.

HP makes some budget gaming laptops like the Omen and the Pavilion 15 gaming notebook, available at Best Buy. As you have likely seen, these tend to have nVidia GPUs not AMD. I am not familiar with the game you describe, but if it is demanding you need to actually get a purpose built gaming notebook from a company like Razer, Sager, MSI, Alienware, etc. or you will be disappointed.  

[TheJordan]

Oh I see where confusion comes from. Sony vegas pro is equivalent to Adobe premier and such, it's no game, it's professional video editing software.

[Huffer · Accepted solution]

Duh sorry...my bad. So scratch the reference to gaming laptops. Go 180 degrees in the other direction. For what you want to do, the Zbook 15 G3 is the way to go. The Firepro card is just about equivalent to the nVidia 2000M I have and it is perfect for production content creation. My understanding is that the Zbook G3 Mobile workstation is the "go-to" portable these days for the production of movies...Holywood used to be Mac, but has largely gone PC now and HP sells them most of the hardware (notebooks and fixed powerful workstation machines). 

[TheJordan]

Nice!
Thaks for your time!