Calling on all A10-5750m with a AMD 8970M GPU

Hi Guys

I want an honest opinion on this combination of APU and 8970m. I will be using my laptop for three basic things, movies, browsing and gaming. what are you feedbacks? Is the AMD A10-5750m that bad? or is it an okay balance with the GPU. I know the processor is no were close to an icore7.

So guys drop a few lines.

Much appreciated

 

If you want the most from the 8970M then the A10 is not worth considering even if it is offered for free.

If you simply want to be all AMD - and your performance expectations aren't that high: go for it. But don't expect your platform to be as useable long term as an IB or Haswell based platform.


In the end; you'll pay roughly the same price for a specific notebook with that kind of gpu - might as well get the one that will last the longest - and that would be an Intel (cpu) based system right now.



Good luck.

 

Thanks guys.

thesuperdog have you tried intensive games like BF3 or 4? assassin creed? my budget isnt enough for an ssd and 16gb ram option just now, maybe later on I will upgrade the Ram and add an additional ssd. Have you noticed any lag at all? I picked this combination because of "Mantle"

Come on guys lets have your views. Thanks

 

Just don't buy :

AnandTech | AMD's A10-5750M Review, Part 2: The MSI GX60 Gaming Notebook

Most unbalanced laptop ever

 

This link gives you a rough idea of how much worse a system with the A10 paired with 8970m is on some games. If you want to look at BF3, for example, you will notice a 45% frame rate increase when using a system with a Core i7. Same story with Skyrim.

BF4 is barely playable (around 36 fps) with a Haswell an the 8970m. Rest assured, you won't be able to play BF4 on the same settings.

Mantle is a low-level GPU API. It has nothing to do with which CPU in involved. If you want to play games that might be written using Mantle in the future, you want to use a AMD GPU.

 

Mantle will do a lot for reducing the CPU bottleneck and increasing performance, but you have to consider the many games that won't have Mantle. All things considered, I'd stay away from the MSI GX60/70.

 

Depends on the game OP. Something like Rome 2 will run extremely badly, but then there are games like Bioshock Infinite and BF4 that are capable of 40-60fps on Ultra. If MMOs and RTS games are your thing look for an Intel setup. Otherwise it's a great bang for buck notebook.

Everything in this post is wrong lol. If you're only managing 36fps in BF4 with Haswell you might want to look at reformatting or something. BF3 runs poorly on APUs, BF4 runs much better (not sure why but these are what myself and others have experienced). Mantle reduces CPU overhead so BF4 will be even better soon.

I should mention that I am talking about 64p mp.

 

I'd pick a GT over a GX anyday. Go intel.

If you can't afford the GT go for a GE or something from the competition, i.e. Clevo, Lenovo or ASUS.

 

Old thread I know but that anandtech review is garbage. They are using 1 stick of DD3 memory. Hence the graphics card is only getting 64-bits for video memory instead of 128-bits. If they threw in another SoDimm even if it was 1333mhz you would see an instant jump of 40-50% in benchmark scores.

 

It makes no difference when you're playing with dedicated graphics. That only affects the integrated GPU, because dedicated doesn't rely on the system RAM, it has its own.

This is an older thread, but the point is still valid: http://forum.notebookreview.com/gam...amd-radeon-hd-6750m-benchmarking-results.html

With 1066MHz RAM in dual channel or 1600MHz RAM in single channel or dual channel, the dedicated GPU performance is the same.