Gaming laptop with AMD CPU?

Wisecracker

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LOL at Passmark benches. A drive-by attack on AMD from a dude with a gazillion-dollar Intel rig in his sig. What a joke.

The Radeon HD8970M graphics is quite powerful, and the Richland A10 5750M will work just dandy. As typical with a portable, the 5400rpm HDD is the real bottleneck in that rig.

 

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IMO, amd still has a place in the high end desktop market. It's a smaller use case than it used to be for sure, but something like the 8350 or 8320 can still power a pretty powerful gaming or a content creation rig. I get scores right between a 3770k and a 4770k with my 8350 in a lot of the content creation stuff out there, and it was a lot less expensive.

That being said, in the mobile market, the story isn't quite the same. They for sure have some value oriented options that can be good solutions. Their APU's give lower-mid range laptops more GPU power than intel HD graphics does, which is a plus for a certain demographic. However, when you start to pair these CPU's with higher end GPU's, it makes less sense. The mobile line-up currently tops out at the A10-5750, which is decent, and about on par with an i5, but gets stomped by an i7, and it really makes a noticeable difference in a lot of games. The situation here isn't quite the same as on desktop, because the price difference isn't so large to move from one of these laptops to something with a comparable video card and an intel CPU.

The 8970M is still a decent card, and is between a 770m and a 780m, and paired with a 5750, it will still give you good frame-rates in most games. However, if you can find a comparable or slightly more expensive laptop with an intel and a similar GPU, that's what I would do. If not, what you have found is still almost certainly a better choice than getting a lesser GPU to get a better CPU.
 

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I not a gamer but I know ATI has been making great graphic cards for year and Intel mediocre to bad that lower priced AMD with integrated graphics better then Intel. The difference in gaming is the discrete card and intel laptops have both Nvidia and ATI for with their processors. Thats where the duifference lies. You have SLI graphics built just for gaming.
 

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The AMD 'Richland' A10-5750M APU scores 3,800 in Passmark. The i5-4258U (typically found in a MacBook Pro or ultrabook with SSD) at base clock 2.4GHz scores 4,000. The APU is 35w ... 28w for the i5, though each likely consumes roughly the same watts at idle.

Looks like the OP got his 'confirmation bias' from a useless link and moved on ...

Too bad for him.







 

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Yer boy up there seemed to like Passmark ...

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Feel free to offer a solution at 950 euros with comparable Radeon HD8970M graphics against the A10-5750M model.

No one is disputing Intel mobile chips provide more CPU power and that i7 mobiles are great. Jumping into this thread, however, and with equivocation saying AMD-Bad Intel-Great without bothering to offer an alternative is worthless.

Here's the MSI Series GX60 with a Trinity A10-4600M -- 86% give it 4-5 Eggs.

I'd say that's a decent recommendation.

 

dustinhunt78

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Someone has deleted my posts and "Solution Solved" from this thread and several others. Why would a correct answer and "Solution Solved" be removed?! Doesn't make any sense. I don't know if it's Tom's or someone else.

UPDATE: By the way.....is it possible to delete someone else's post? Or even your own post for that matter!