Intel Iris 540 or Intel HD 520

phntm3 · Sep 13, 2016

Need help deciding between a machine powered by an i7-6560U + Iris 540 with 8GB memory or i7-6500U + HD 520 with 16GB memory.

While this machine is to be a general use laptop, I enjoy future proofing my home laptop purchases. Plus, I'd enjoy being able to play SimCity or Civ from time to time.

Help please.

Guest · Sep 13, 2016

The Iris 540 is more powerful than the HD 520. Iris and HD aren't even comparable from a performance standpoint.

phntm3 · Sep 14, 2016

Thanks for the clarification. So that confirms my understand of Iris vs HD. But should I have pause that the Iris only features 8 GB in this case? Or have they packed the HD with extra RAM to make up for it's lower performance capabilities?

Guest · Sep 14, 2016

I do not think so the extra ram would make much of a difference in terms of graphics performance. 8gb is sufficient for general purpose. Extra ram comes in handy for running more programs concurrently, more tasks done at the same time.

Bobbysonators · Oct 7, 2016

8gbs of ram is more than enough for everything except video editing I tried to use it all and couldn't with 6 games 8 Firefox tabs 10 chrome tabs and a second account doing similar stuff, anyway I'm getting off track get the laptop with Intel iris graphics

jaguarskx · Oct 7, 2016

You can checkout some benchmarks of the Iris 540 in the following link. It's performance is between the nVidia 920m and 930m; being closer to the 930m.

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/www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-Iris-Graphics-540.149939.0.html

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