Is AMD quadcore A8 is better or intel i3 is better for light gaming?
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sorry i didn't see the laptop part LOL
if it laptop. go for the A10 or even the A12. they are ok for lite gaming. i have a cousin who got the A10 about 2 years back. he wasn't happy about it caz it was running on windows 8 (every thing was slow even opening a photo takes 10 sec). but now with windows 10 and all the diver update. he is much happier with his A10. and yes he is playing games with it too.
lets put it this way. the A10 will do everything the i7 do but slower. but the i3/i5/i7 can't play games if it doesn't have a video card. which an A10 can do some lite gaming (there are some AMD A series game title that will work best with AMD APU like the battlefield 4) and it will let you play full hd video. but remember you won't get crazy FPS but it still a playable FPS.
unless you can get a Intel laptop with a mid/high end video card with about 100?200? buk more. i would go for the A10.
if it laptop. go for the A10 or even the A12. they are ok for lite gaming. i have a cousin who got the A10 about 2 years back. he wasn't happy about it caz it was running on windows 8 (every thing was slow even opening a photo takes 10 sec). but now with windows 10 and all the diver update. he is much happier with his A10. and yes he is playing games with it too.
lets put it this way. the A10 will do everything the i7 do but slower. but the i3/i5/i7 can't play games if it doesn't have a video card. which an A10 can do some lite gaming (there are some AMD A series game title that will work best with AMD APU like the battlefield 4) and it will let you play full hd video. but remember you won't get crazy FPS but it still a playable FPS.
unless you can get a Intel laptop with a mid/high end video card with about 100?200? buk more. i would go for the A10.
Ecky
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Please don't blindly say things that aren't true. AMD's APUs are slower in laptops than Intel's integrated graphics, because their efficiency is so poor. To stay within a laptop's low TDP, they downclock significantly and end up slower.
This is AMD's Carrizo, which is their most recent refresh and a lot more efficient (and thus faster in laptops) than older A8's and A10's:
AMD is no longer the leader in integrated graphics; Intel surpassed them with Broadwell, and Skylake pulled farther ahead.
wooo. take it easy man. i'm talking about true in game playability.
what I'm saying is I have a cousin who have an 1?2? years old A10 and he can play games with us on steam. and I know a friend who have a i7 which always complain about he can't play anything with it. and they are both with a laptop. i'm not looking at score. caz that doesn't mean much for most of the time on low end cpu. they use AVG of many games. so for example the A10 may be playable for 6/10 games but that 4 game is like 15 fps caz of the stupid driver. the avg will get pull down too much.
so the idea is to search how well the game run on the A10/A8. as in the game you want to play.
what I'm saying is I have a cousin who have an 1?2? years old A10 and he can play games with us on steam. and I know a friend who have a i7 which always complain about he can't play anything with it. and they are both with a laptop. i'm not looking at score. caz that doesn't mean much for most of the time on low end cpu. they use AVG of many games. so for example the A10 may be playable for 6/10 games but that 4 game is like 15 fps caz of the stupid driver. the avg will get pull down too much.
so the idea is to search how well the game run on the A10/A8. as in the game you want to play.
Ecky
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It depends entirely on which i7. Intel has been significantly increasing their iGPU performance every generation, so an Ivy Bridge or Haswell i7's iGPU will not perform anywhere near that of a Broadwell or Skylake CPU.
Here are some benchmarks from their desktop counterparts:
http://www.techspot.com/review/1041-intel-core-i7-6700k-skylake/page9.html
On desktop, where power budgets are generous, the AMD A10 falls somewhere between Skylake GT2 and Broadwell GT4e graphics. The story is different in mobile because AMD CPUs are built on the older 28nm process, while Intel chips are built on the much more efficient 14nm finfet process. In the same power envelope (let's say 15w), AMD CPUs lose significantly more performance. Their iGPUs fall way behind, because they're less energy efficient. In mobile, Skylake and Broadwell are both faster in 90% of cases in real-world performance than AMD's iGPUs.
Here are some benchmarks from their desktop counterparts:
http://www.techspot.com/review/1041-intel-core-i7-6700k-skylake/page9.html
On desktop, where power budgets are generous, the AMD A10 falls somewhere between Skylake GT2 and Broadwell GT4e graphics. The story is different in mobile because AMD CPUs are built on the older 28nm process, while Intel chips are built on the much more efficient 14nm finfet process. In the same power envelope (let's say 15w), AMD CPUs lose significantly more performance. Their iGPUs fall way behind, because they're less energy efficient. In mobile, Skylake and Broadwell are both faster in 90% of cases in real-world performance than AMD's iGPUs.
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