Which is better?

[Humble3]

Hi i am buying a laptop with a budget of £500 and found 3 laptops. I was wondering which would be better to play games on at low/medium settings but also to do work on. I am off to Uni at the end of the year and don't want to get a desktop as i need the mobility that a laptop provides.

1st spec: i5-3210M paired with the GPU Radeon HD 2gb 7670M DDR3.
2nd spec: i5-2450M paired with the GPU Radeon HD 7470M.
3rd spec: AMD A8-4500M with AMD Radeon HD 7640G Discrete-Class.

I would like to know which is best for light gaming on games like: WoW, GW2, Dayz e.t.c.
The laptop will also be used for work.
Lastly the screen resolution for all 3 is 1366 x 768.

Cheers

 

[FinneousPJ]

I think the first one is best.

 

[ScrewySqrl]

1, then 3, then 2.
1 and 3 are actually going to be very close together in ability. Depending on what you're playing the A8 may get a nod as a true quad core

 

[JackNaylorPE]

I'd want an Optimus based system .... For a bit over $800 (£500) you could have one of these:

http://www.lpc-digital.com/sager-np6165.html

And that's before student discounts

 

[Humble3]

1, then 3, then 2.
1 and 3 are actually going to be very close together in ability. Depending on what you're playing the A8 may get a nod as a true quad core

I'll be playing games like Guild Wars2, WoW, skyrim and Dayz.
So the Intergrated Graphics would be better than the actual graphics card?

 

[ScrewySqrl]

the integrated card in the A8 is almost as good as the 7670M

 

[Humble3]

the integrated card in the A8 is almost as good as the 7670M

so the AMD based one would be a better choice? although it runs at lower Ghz?

 

[hwangchan]

so the AMD based one would be a better choice? although it runs at lower Ghz?

For gaming, they are all vid card limited, 1 & 3 both have a 76xx card, which is ok for low res, some games might go med. Keep in mind these are technically all integrated cards, and aren't guaranteed to run with all games. the games you mentioned shouldn't have issues though.

74xx card on 2 also isn't terrible, but its the older i5, basically a 1-2 year old version of laptop 1...

Id also recommend 1, then 3, then 2, unless you do very specific work on it that requires and utilizes multicore threading. Then 3 might have a small advantage over 1, but 1 would still be the better for gaming and daily use.

 

[ScrewySqrl]

skyrim, for one, runs better on quad cores.