Laptops have come a long way from the massive boxes they used to be back in the day. From the small form factor netbooks to massive desktop replacements, there are a wide range of situations where a laptop will cover all of your computing needs. Laptop sales make up approximately 16 percent of the PC sales market, according to Statistics Brain, so there’s always a new, shiny laptop model on the horizon. With each wave of new laptops, the mobile graphics cards are also getting better and better, with GPU performance that’s comparable to high-end desktops. Here’s a look at the best mobile graphics cards currently in laptops today.

Nvidia GeForce GTX 780M

Nvidia is currently dominating the laptop graphics card market, and the 780M is the latest entrant in the field. Nvidia’s mobile graphic card releases last year were solid, but a bit lackluster, and they’re making up for it this year, says Gizmodo. The chip architecture uses their Kepler design to have the same technology in the mobile cards as they do in their desktop cards. It supports PhysX and GPU Boost 2.0, and uses the GeForce Experience software, so you get the most out of your graphics card.

It has a 1536 core speed, a 823 MHz base clock speed, a 2500 MHz memory speed, and up to 4 gigs of GDDR5 memory. Its benchmarks blaze past the competition, even their other cards, but the balance is the higher cost of this card, as Gizmodo points out. Laptops are typically sold as all-inclusive units, so you don’t always know how much you’re specifically paying for the video card. With some manufacturers, such as Sager, you are shown how much it costs to upgrade from one card to another. For example, the cost to upgrade from a 770 M to a 780 M in a Sager model is $350.

Nvidia GeForce GTX 750M

If you want a good amount of graphical power, but you don’t want to pay out the nose for the 780M, the 750M is a viable alternative that still gives you plenty of power. You can find these in new laptops from Lenovo and other companies that create affordable gaming rigs. It uses a GK107 Kepler core with 384 shader cores, and performs better than the 660M models. The clock speed is 967 MHz, and it uses the GeForce Experience 2.0 for controlling the card. It has a top resolution of 3840×2160, which can be supported across four different monitors. While it doesn’t quite match up to the power of the 780, it is more than powerful enough for what you end up paying to have this card included in a laptop configuration, as Gizmodo points out.

Making It Even Better

While there is a cap to how powerful these laptop graphic cards are, Nvidia has a technology that allows you to take advantage of two to three graphics cards in tandem. It’s called SLI, and if you have a laptop model that supports it, it’s a way to stay on top of the laptop graphics curve. These laptops have two discrete graphics cards, and the SLI bridge distributes the graphical load between the two cards. High-end gaming laptops offer this feature, although it could lead to some cooling issues, since it’s hard to put sufficient cooling inside of a laptop to handle those cards. A laptop cooling pad is a ideal for these situations.