What do you all think about the HD 7750M (and Enduro)?

[amin196]

I just purchased the HP Envy 15 (i7-3610QM, hybrid drive) and I noticed it comes with an AMD Radeon HD 7750M GPU. What are your thoughts about this GPU? How does it fare with games such as Skyrim? How does it compare to the nVidia GT 650M, which is offered by HP on it's Pavilion laptops? Also, in general, how is AMD's Enduro technology? Is the switch between Intel HD 4000 and the 7750M seamless?

Also... this will be my first "modern" PC purchase... my current computer which I've had for about 6 years has a AMD Sempron LE-1200 processor and an on-board GeForce 6150SE, so the Envy will be a great leap as it is.

 

[El Tigre]

From reading around the interwebs, I see that it should run Skyrim on medium to high with lowest shadow quality, no AA and such settings.

It's a major jump from your old computer though, that GPU is the roughly equivalent to a 8800GTX from back in the day with DX11 support. It's decent over all for a notebook GPU.

Since I have been gaming on dedicated GPU's for my whole life, I can't really tell you about the Intel 4000 and such as I really never bothered with them.


*EDIT*


The 7750M would trash the Intel HD 4000

 

[amin196]

Oh I see, thanks El Tigre! Of course the 7750M would trash the Intel HD 4000, but since it's a laptop, switching to Intel HD 4000 would conserve battery life (especially when doing minimal tasks like watching videos or browsing the interwebs, you know, tasks that would severely under-use the 7750M). Thus the point of Enduro, which supposedly automatically shifts between the GPUs depending on the load.