A10 5759M 8970m vs i7 3630qm 670mx ?

Which Combination would be better for everyday use like watching movies and playing FPS and RTS?
The first combo found in the MSI GX70 is much cheaper though.

 

Depends. What games? Movies don't really give a damn about your hardware so long as it's not something hopelessly underpowered and old (i.e., just about anything can play movies).

RTS games are generally CPU-dependent, so the A10 would bottleneck you pretty badly in that situation. Popular FPS games such as BF4 are heavily CPU-dependent, so I wouldn't recommend the A10 for that either.

What notebooks are you looking at right now, and what's your budget? I'm 99% sure that the A10 laptop you're looking at is the MSi GX60 or GX70, though I'm curious as to why you're considering the 670MX as an alternate.

 

Intel+Nvidia. Better drivers, no bottlenecks.

A10 = i3

He is most likely comparing previous-gen GT60 vs current GX60.

 

The thing is... the 670MX is probably the best GPU if you're on a budget. Even the Asus models, which are proprietary, can hit 1GHz core and easily match a 8970M after being overclocked. And since the i7 is so much faster anyway, it'll have higher performance in games that require a better CPU. Plus, from what I've seen, the A10 actually bottlenecks the 8970M pretty heavily. Normally that GPU will hit around 23k GPU score in Vantage, but with that APU, it only hits around 17k... so there's that...


I would go with the 670MX model simply because you get solid performance in game as is, and you CAN overclock to pretty extreme levels and match the performance of much more powerful GPUs later. ^_^

 

I'd also agree on the Intel-nVidia combo, or if you can find one, an Intel-Radeon combo. While the 8970M is a beast of a gaming GPU on a budget, the A10 was never meant to be a CPU for a gaming laptop.

 

It is indeed the MSI GX70 im looking at and it´s the cheapest gaming laptop available, but ive read the same thing about the crappy AMD cpu as well. The other I7 with 670mx and I7 3630qm im looking at is the Medion Erazer x7819, it is also cheap but not as cheap as the GX70.
Ive also read about that next gen games will be much better optimized for AMD cpu so the GX 70 would be much less bottlenecked by its CPU as it is now.
And also I dont know if it worth to wait to get a 770m instead of an 670mx in that Medion Erazer?

 

Yeah a 670MX is basically a 770M with more overclocking headroom. Let that sink in for a minute...