Starfield: The models are detailed, but whether it can get FPS depends on what you're looking at. They don't appear to have much of a mechanism for simplifying far-away objects, at least that I can tell. So if you actually try to look at the panoramas that the game generously sets up for you, it goes all slow.

On my 3080 laptop, there are games I can run in 4k/60 fps. I wouldn't say it's most of them, but it can be done. Starfield I'm running at 60% resolution, less then 2K, so it's already getting a break.

And for laptops, not being able to do real 4K has been the situation for years. i remember trying to play Total War on a 1080 SLI, struggling, switching to 2K. Every GPU since has been advertised as 4k-capable. And they're not, really.

Starfield: The models are detailed, but whether it can get FPS depends on what you're looking at. They don't appear to have much of a mechanism for simplifying far-away objects, at least that I can tell. So if you actually try to look at the panoramas that the game generously sets up for you, it goes all slow.

On my 3080 laptop, there are games I can run in 4k/60 fps. I wouldn't say it's most of them, but it can be done. Starfield I'm running at 60% resolution, less then 2K, so it's already getting a break.

And for laptops, not being able to do real 4K has been the situation for years. i remember trying to play Total War on a 1080 SLI, struggling, switching to 2K.