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    Something I did wonder about ATI cards

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by dustin_broke, Sep 15, 2013.

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    dustin_broke Notebook Consultant

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    There is one thing I' am very confused about is that according to AMD site it says that the AMD Radeon HD 6310 is a Discrete-Class graphics. Now I saw some people on google say that it's a IGP like Intel HD but is the Radeon HD 6310 really 100% IGP? Or does it have some discrete on this video card? Also even for the Radeon HD 7310 says same thing.
     
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    It is 100% integrated in the CPU. Discrete means a completely separate video card either soldered on the motherboard or a separate snap-in card (which is rare in laptops and reserved usually for the larger "game" laptops).
     
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    Well does this IGP perform like a actual video card? Since it might be based from a dedicated video card and they made a IGP to perform like that video card so that's why they call it a discrete video card.

    Someone did post this on a different forums but is this true? Basically it's better than most IGP but not as good as a real video card.


    "It'll probably be better than the average IGP but worse than an actual video card."
     
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    The 6310 will not perform better than any other recent IGP. Even the Sandy Bridge HD 3000 has several times better performance than that GPU. The problem with the E-300 CPU is it supports only single channel RAM. Dual Channel would improve GPU performance by as much as 50%. But even then it's a slow GPU. Older games like 2007 and earlier will likely run fine on it. But I still wouldn't expect miracles.
     
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