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Who's onboard graphics are better, AMD or Intel?

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JonSimonzi

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My friend was looking at buying a new desktop, in the ~$700 range (needs everything, tower, monitor, keyboard, etc...). I convinced him to let me throw one together for him. Since there will be 0 gaming done on the rig, I would go with onboard graphics on the chips. I had original built up a decent rig based off a i5 2300, but then started to look at something like the Llano A8-3850.

I know for processing power, the i5 will beat out the Llano, but not sure which has stronger graphics. There will be some photoshop work going on, so I want to take that into consideration even though there isn't any gaming going on. Thanks.
 
well you would have to make sure you get a mobo with a GPU built in but AMD is better my friend uses a built in Intel and it is really bad

p.s. the mobo i have has a built in 256mb GPU and its pretty good BUT dont buy this board the sound card broke 2 time already
 
Yeah the A8-3850 has 6550D, and the i5 2300 has Intel HD 2000. Just not sure which of those is better, or where they even stack up against a dedicated video card. Clearly I know it won't be as good as a mainstream gaming card, but say a AMD 6450 512mb card, which is around $50, how would it stack up against something such as that?
 
AMD have far superior on-chip graphics AFAIK.

From the review someone linked above:

slide-apu_igp-comparison.jpg

The APUs appear to compete OK with a GT430, for example:

heaven-graph-wm.jpg
 
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