Sounds very simple, it is too. I'm looking for a laptop with a very tight budget. I'm only concerned with the GPU in this question, so once the intigrierte of an i3-380m or HD 5470 AMD. What is better? The graphic memory is not (only for the intigrierten), there's enough RAM available.
Definitely the HD 5470
Both real snot. Need for misery… Better is the misery, Radeon HD 5470
For real? So my mind says so, but userbenchmark not, so I've created the question yes.
If you compare them to a recent Intel HD graphics unit maybe. The thing in an i3 380m runs under the name Bay Tray. In Windows it's all Intel HD.
Here is the benchmark comparison that you are really looking for
https://gpu.userbenchmark.com/...698vsm7794
The ATI also totally outdated, but on average still 50% better than the graphics unit of the i3 380m.
Is both just 5 years old and was already low-end.
I ask the other way around:
Which budget do you have for a used notebook at most?
Basically to your question, an ATI Radeon HD 5470 (GDDR5) offers up to a factor of 3 higher performance compared to an Intel HD-Graphics @ ~ 500 Mhz on Arrendale CPUs like you.A. The i3-380m.
However, in notebooks rather than "Mobility Radeon HD 5470 (m)" comes compared to the HD 5470 (desktop) but usually with lame DDR3 memory, and should not be so much faster than the Intel iGPU Core i3-380m,
Here is a comparison between Intel HD (Arrendale) vs. Radeon HD 5470 (DDR3)
So about 70 euro needed, that's it then. Since I take the IGP, I get away much cheaper.
For 70 euro, a notebook with an Intel Core i3-380m is in itself a snap, because you probably will not think about gaming on this / such a notebook.
If you should actually take the book with the i3-380m, then the next possible, meaningful performance upgrade would be an SSD if the book currently has a conventional HDD.
Note, however, that the iGPU of the i3-380m offers only limited hardware acceleration with respect to current video formats. Here in the text you will find more information about:
The thing in an i3 380m runs under the name Bay Tray. In Windows it's all Intel HD.
No, the questioned Intel iGPU runs under the code name "Iron-Lake" for Arrendale / and Westmere processors (1st Gen. Core i - Processors for Desktop & Mobile) with 12 execution units at variable clock rates.
"Bay Trail" is the code name for later Intel Atom processors / SoC's (In-Order / extremely economical). Since Intel has partially slimmed down from 12 to 4 to 6 execution units.
Overall, Bay-Trail has little to do with Arrendale / Westmere… And therefore also analogous to the incomparability of the integrated Intel graphics cores of these two families of processors. (4 mobiles)
