Which is better for gaming? AMD or Intel?

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Greetings, I'm looking for my first Gaming laptop, as I have always played games mostly on a console. I'm a heavy gamer, and play games like Overwatch, Star Wars Battlefront, Call of Duty, RWBY: Grimm eclipse, Fallout, Warframe, Rainbow Six Siege, League of Legends, and Civilization. But I also like to play old games like Halo, Mount and Blade: Warband, Counterstrike, Half life, Star Wars : Knights of the old republic, Knights of the old republic II, and Borderlands. I was just wondering on whether Intel or AMD was better for handling those types of games, or if there's another processor brand capable of handling both new and old games that'd be great.
 
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AMD CPUs are slower and more power hungry than Intel CPUs, so in general they're a worse choice, but it really varies from laptop to laptop.

More important is what video card is in each. A laptop is not a gaming laptop without a discrete video card; you're going to have a horrible experience with either if you're using the integrated graphics.
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For laptops, it's pretty much Intel or nothing for gaming CPUs at this point unless you're on a really low budget. AMD hasn't released a high end laptop processor in a long time, largely due to their architecture consuming so much power and putting out so much heat that it isn't really suitable for mobile computing. Even their lower end products run into thermal and power limitations which hurt their performance to the point that while an AMD APU might on paper have a faster iGPU than its Intel competitor, in practice the Intel CPU will provide better performance due to not getting throttled.

 
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Well, I'm either thinking of getting an asus ROG STRIX GL502VY with an Intel i7 processor or a Toshiba Satellite with an AMD a8 processor. I looked on Cnet, but all that I could find Is that it said asus was better for gaming and I just want a processor that would make those games run smoother. From my experience, Intel has always leaned more towards older games and AMD has always leaned more towards the newer games.
 
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AMD CPUs are slower and more power hungry than Intel CPUs, so in general they're a worse choice, but it really varies from laptop to laptop.

More important is what video card is in each. A laptop is not a gaming laptop without a discrete video card; you're going to have a horrible experience with either if you're using the integrated graphics.
 
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