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In the lowest price segment AMD has actual GPU cores. Intel's HD Execution Units emulate GPU cores using the CPU cores and some special hardware. This works well for benchmarks which test CPU OR GPU speed but performance declines when the CPU AND GPU are loaded down at the same time as a game...

Sorry not to be clear. When Intel integrated the FPU into the 486 there was an uproar over integration especially since the Cyrix part was about twice as fast as the competition for the same money. The integration was unavoidable then and will likely be just as unavoidable now. It won't be...

The E2 is a low-power part with 80 Radeon cores. It would be high-end for a netbook, lower mid-range for a laptop and low-end for a desktop. It should do most things well and be able to run most modern games at low settings at 18 or so unique fps (the original Doom ran at about 16 on a 486...

When Intel integrated the FPU into the CPU many complained and claimed it was far better to use a discrete solution. Integrated was better in most ways and today floating point is included in most CPUs. Now many are complaining that graphics processors are being integrated and many are claiming...

About the same difference as between a Ford and a Chev. An objective person would say for a given price they do about the same things in about the same way. Intel has more brand recognition and tends to cost more than AMD does but otherwise there is little difference. Unless you ask a fanboy.

The E2-1800 includes a HD 7340 in the device. It has something like 80 Radeon cores at up to 680 MHz. The part is rated at 18 Watts. AMD drivers do support using another graphics processor in tandem with the 7340 so any additional graphics processors should add to the performance.

The E-1800 is high-end for a netbook, middle-range for a laptop and low-end for a gaming desktop. This is not a matter of opionon so much as an industry convention. Comparing it with a similar Intel part is difficult because Intels HD EUs seem to load the CPU more than AMD's graphics cores do...

In certain areas and at certian times SWTOR will stutter because of server lag and all systems will be affected by this. After that there is no agreement on what constitutes "smoother". Hand drawn animations in the twentieth century were shown at 12 unique frames per second and that was smooth...

Only a fanboy would attack someone personally for expressing a technical opinion about a computer part. My knowledge comes from reading publshed technical data but since that is often written in 'computerese' it is hard for many lay people to comprehend. There is no doubt, however, that...

An interesting article is posted at: http://mymediaexperience.com/intel-hd-3000-vs-discrete-graphics/ The article is comparing HD 3000 graphics to a Geforce card and indictates that a demanding graphics task will load the Core i3-2105's 3.1 GHz CPU cores to 25%. Does this mean the same task...