My laptop has an AMD FirePro M6100 (identified as Radeon 8950M in Crimson drivers). The laptop's CPU is on the weak side - a dual core i5 w/ HT (i5-2520M). Could the CPU be bottlenecking my GPU? Fortunately, the CPU *is* upgradeable, so would I see any performance benefit in games from upgrading to an i7-2720qm? The laptop is a Dell Precision M6600.
Most of my benchmarks for the FirePro are a little shy of what a desktop 750 Ti would get (e.g., it gets a Fire Strike graphics score ~4000.) As far as gaming is concerned, is there any point to upgrading to a quad? It plays Fallout 4 and other "quad required" games fine, probably thanks to the hyperthreading.
Most of my benchmarks for the FirePro are a little shy of what a desktop 750 Ti would get (e.g., it gets a Fire Strike graphics score ~4000.) As far as gaming is concerned, is there any point to upgrading to a quad? It plays Fallout 4 and other "quad required" games fine, probably thanks to the hyperthreading.
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