Question About Integrated and Dedicated Graphics

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IMHO you would be better off getting a faster larger memory card than to sli/crossfire two cards. (excluding the current high end)
a graphics card is like a pc. it has a CPU- the GPU. it has it's own RAM. it has co processors- Cuda and streaming cores. it has its own OS- the current game it is running.
just like a PC the more RAM, the better if it is used. is the only game you plan to play is CS:GO and nothing newer? a 1080/card with 8GB would be wasted - the games you intend to play will tell you how much GPU you will need.


The gt 730 has it's own RAM on board, the iGPU uses system RAM. If you have at least 8GB (which I'm assuming you do because there's no excuse not to when you're on skylake) it won't be a problem at all.
 

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the 530 is part of the CPU and as such has to share resources. RAM available to the 530 is way slower than the ram on a dedicated card.
the fastest RAM cannot help a slow graphics processor so the 530 will be faster despite the slower memory.

the ONLY benefit would be freeing shared resources.
a GTX 750 would be the slowest card I would consider.
 

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graphics clock, the speed at which the graphics processor operates- typically the faster the better
memory clock, the speed at which the memory can communicate with the graphics processor and cuda cores. Typically the higher the better
Cuda cores are small programmable processors on the GPU that perform texture and other calculations, freeing GPU for other more complex tasks.
typically the more cuda cores the better the game will look. cuda cores are nvidia, AMD has stream processors, but the idea is the same.
 

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IMHO you would be better off getting a faster larger memory card than to sli/crossfire two cards. (excluding the current high end)
a graphics card is like a pc. it has a CPU- the GPU. it has it's own RAM. it has co processors- Cuda and streaming cores. it has its own OS- the current game it is running.
just like a PC the more RAM, the better if it is used. is the only game you plan to play is CS:GO and nothing newer? a 1080/card with 8GB would be wasted - the games you intend to play will tell you how much GPU you will need.
 
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