Pemalite said:
rolltide101x said:
AMD APUs are vastly superior to Intel. Try playing any decent games with an Intel APU.....
In fact for my next laptop I am going to buy a laptop with a 1080p screen and an A10 APU
Right now I have a quad i7 and an Nvidia GT650M GPU with a 1366x768 screen
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Intel's Iris Pro is actually extremely potent and will give an AMD APU/nVidia Geforce M a run for it's money in sheer performance.
It's even faster than AMD's Radeon 8670D in many instances by upwards of 25% or more.
However, the issue on Intel's side isn't so much performance... It's the Drivers, or... Rather, lack there-of.
AMD's drivers are gold plated in comparison, you are also guarenteed to get regular driver updates and support for newer game titles.
Intel however, despite only recently having a dedicated and large driver team (Thanks to AMD's competition!) is still easily years behind in that department, performance can be erratic (I.E. Super low minimum frames, despite having higher averages, you notice the minimums more.) and it can take upwards of 12+ months for them to implement some direct x-class features. (I.E. TnL on the x3100 series, however was still implemented half-assed as Intel had to use a profiling system as some games benefitted with having TnL performed on the CPU or how it took a few years to enable SM3.0 support.)
So really, don't let the performance of the graphics processor hold you back, but rather the software side.
By choosing AMD you sacrifice CPU performance, by going Intel you sacrifice GPU performance (Only In the low-end of the GPU spectrum.) and you have to deal with absolutely horrible GPU drivers, but you do get quicksync which is fantastic for those who do tons of encoding.
So buy the best that suits your needs, it won't always be AMD and it won't always be Intel.
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Right this is correct. AMD is the best choice for (budget) PC gaming and Intel is the choice for cpu performance. I went overboard with my i7. I never use it except for the rare occassions I convert a video lol
