Knowing my TRUE Video Card on my Laptop

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ItachiUchiha

ItachiUchiha

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First of all, I have a Gaming Laptop MSI GX60 Destroyer.

I bought it 'cause i saw its Video Card AMD R9 M290X (I KNOW THAT AMD R9 290 IS GOOD FOR DESKTOP SO I BOUGHT THE LAPTOP)
I know that this laptop has only 1 video card.

BUT. . .

When I run DXDIAG, and go to Display Tab, the name is AMD Radeon HD 8650G.

I search the 2 Video Cards in Google and saw it differently. AND IM SO CONFUSED.

I try to download the TechPowerup GPU-Z to know what Video Card I'm using, but I FOUND ANOTHER NAME, it is AMD Radeon HD 8970M. NOW IM SO VERY CONFUSED

So my question is, what is my true Video Card?

AMD Radeon HD 8650G and AMD Radeon HD8970M have updates (Like Driver Updates etc.)
and
AMD R9 M290X has no updates like that.
 
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In many cases, it's the same card with a different name.

Both the R9 M290X and the HD8970M are a Pitcairn GPU with 1280 stream processors running at 850MHz (boost 900MHz) and a 256 bit GDDR5 bus running at 1200MHz.

The 8650G is the integrated graphics on the APU. Lower power consumption for things like web browsing, but switches to the dGPU for games.

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hoax187

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I suggest you go into Device Manager and look under Display Adapters

edit: Looks like your notebook uses an APU hence you are getting HD 8650G, it uses that when you are not using the dedicated gpu to save power
 
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In many cases, it's the same card with a different name.

Both the R9 M290X and the HD8970M are a Pitcairn GPU with 1280 stream processors running at 850MHz (boost 900MHz) and a 256 bit GDDR5 bus running at 1200MHz.

The 8650G is the integrated graphics on the APU. Lower power consumption for things like web browsing, but switches to the dGPU for games.

 
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ItachiUchiha

ItachiUchiha

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So what is APU? I didnt hear that term.
 
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hoax187

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Accelerated Proccessing Unit:
Basically having CPU and GPU in the same chip

 
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APU = Accelerated Processing Unit = An AMD CPU with integrated graphics.
 
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