Blender on a laptop?

Is it possible to run blender on a laptop and use GPU rendering? Say if you get a laptop
with a Nvidia GT840M, would it work with GPU rendering?

/Bjorn

I don’t see why it shouldn’t. I’m not sure, though, if you’ll see much of a perfomance gain. Notebook-class graphics cards are nowhere near as powerful as their desktop counterparts. If you have a decent CPU in that notebook (i7 or so) the GPU might only be very slightly (if at all) ahead of the CPU when rendering.

EDIT
Man, Richard is fast…

Ok, I’ve been running blender on an Core i5 with just an Intel integrated gfx card and 2GB RAM. Just still images and simple scenes trying to learn more. But when I tried rendering some grass the other day it got really slow. :slight_smile: I saw that “gaming” laptops (i5 or i7) with GT 840M and 8GB RAM were actually not too expensive. Wondering how big difference it would make when it comes to Blender.

Using a 880m on a msi gt72 (one of the cheapest from the most expensive gaming laptops). Rendering works pretty pretty fast. (faster than certain middle end desktop counterparts).
benchmark here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0As2oZAgjSqDCdElkM3l6VTdRQjhTRWhpVS1hZmV3OGc#gid=0

Using a gtx 880m on a msi gt72 (one of the cheapest from the most expensive gaming laptops). Rendering works pretty pretty fast. (faster than some middle end desktop counterparts).
benchmark here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0As2oZAgjSqDCdElkM3l6VTdRQjhTRWhpVS1hZmV3OGc#gid=0

Thanks for the links. That “blenchmark.com/” is great!
An awsome site when it’s time to buy a new computer!

/Björn