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September 14, 2014 7:36:07 AM

Hello Everyone,
I have a quick question regarding laptop's graphic cards; is Radeon GPU a good choice for a laptop? The reason I'm concern is that they are produced by AMD and AMD processors in laptops are much, much less reliable than Intel, does it apply to Radeon graphic cards?

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a b D Laptop
September 14, 2014 7:58:40 AM

You have heard a huge amount of talk from fanboys who are opinionated and don't actually tell you the truth. I can tell right off from that statement.

AMD CPUs and Intel CPUs are pretty much equally as reliable. Neither of them die fast, having lots of issues breaking, or have other problems. In fact CPU failure or CPUs being dead from the start is very rare now, after two years on this website I think I have only heard about one CPU that was bad.

AMD does offer less performance than Intel, but not at equal price points. For example, they have on the desktop 6-core CPUs for $120 against dual core CPUs from Intel. The 6-core usually is the better performance part.

For the graphics and GPUs that are extremely different than CPUs they are very popular and also have a low fail rate.

So what you heard doesn't apply to desktops or laptops. AMD has excellent graphics technology and decent CPU technology and works well in both roles.
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a b D Laptop
September 14, 2014 8:01:52 AM

Also on a performance standpoint, AMD graphics against Intel graphics, AMD destroys Intel performance in graphics by several magnitudes. Only Intels highest performing graphics can compete with AMDs lowest performing products. Anything past the very bottom level of performance and AMD running laps around Intel in performance.
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September 15, 2014 6:31:40 AM

Hi IInuyasha74, thanks for your reply. I meant that the problem with AMD CPUs are just with laptops. They have serious problem with overheating which leads to motherboard damage. The same laptop model with AMD CPU instead of Intel has much bigger chance to brake down.I don't now if that applies to desktops, probably not since they desktop don't have common problem with overheating.
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a b D Laptop
September 15, 2014 7:24:43 AM

Again that isn't true, someone has been filling your head with lies. Laptops are build around what is known as TDP, Thermal Dissipation Pattern. This is a rating of the laptops cooling system to remove heat from the laptop. The most common TDP used is 35w TDP. CPUs by both AMD and Intel build CPUs to this TDP rating. So they literally run at about the exact same temperature at max. So a laptop can be designed to use either AMD or Intel and be the exact same size and use the exact same cooling system. The chances of breaking down because of heat is very low for either system as long as you use common sense and don't block the vent on the side or something.

If you are comparing laptops that have Intel or AMD CPUs, or AMD graphics you should only concern yourself with performance, build quality of the laptop (being the case and how well it holds together), overall battery life, and the other parts in the laptop such as RAM, HDD, Display, etc. You should not look at a laptop and say "It has an AMD CPU/GPU inside of it, that means it has a higher chance overheating and breaking.", because this is simply not true.
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September 15, 2014 8:20:15 AM

I'm just saying it based on my experience of servicing laptops for years. For example I had a client who had network of 10 Sony Vaio laptops (VPCEE2E1E); 7 of them had Intel CPU, the other 3 had AMD. After 2-3 years all 3 AMD laptops were dead where all 7 Intel laptops are still running fine after 4 years. The same story with HP Pavilion DV6000. I've seen plenty of them (with AMD CPU) that had a motherboard failure, but I can't remember dealing with faulty DV6000 model with Intel processor. These are just a few examples. But maybe it's not a general rule applying to all AMD laptops or the quality improved since then.

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