Deciding which laptop to get for light gaming. A10-8700p w/r7 m360 900p or i5-5200u w/Gt 940m?

[Matthew_68]

Im trying to decide between two laptops. I want it for some light gaming on somewhat modern titles like bf4. I have alot of what ifs making it quite hard.
first one is a
A10-8700P R6-m360 dedicated graphics 8gb ram 15.7 inch 1600x900.
ive come to understand that these set ups can be crossfired in catalyst manager for enhanced graphical performance. creating the m365. Im dying to know how this will work going forward with low level api like mantle and DX12. in a game like battlefield 4

The 2nd laptop is a i5-5200u with gt 940m graphics 17 inch full 1080p.

i understand the 8700p is equivalent to the 920m but i couldnt help but think maybe the crossfired performance of the AMD combo would prove to get better framerates in games like BF4 various titles that have (DX12, mantle and vulkan). Ive noticed nvidia cards arnt reacting to well the the a-sync compute stuff that i know the r6 300 series cards have in aces.

another concern with getting the amd chip is ive heard some strange story of Oem manufacturers hamstringing the a10 8700p with low power consumption limits and also not allowing dual channel ram which a APU needs to perform. acer proved difficult to get this information.

Acer Bilingual Laptop Aspire E5-552G-T324 AMD A10-Series A10-8700P (1.80 GHz) 8 GB Memory 500 GB HDD AMD Radeon R7 M360 15.6" Windows 10 Home 64-Bit

Aspire E5-772G-59N7 w/ Core i5-5200U, 8GB, 1TB, DVD+/-RW, 17.3in Full HD, GT 940M, Win 10

 

[hang-the-9]

i5 with 940m woujld be beter, the 1080p display is more standard also. If you want to know how the AMD chip will run BF4, I'm sure there are benchmarks out there.

Keep in mind that what you get is what you will have till you sell it and get a new one, you may want to spend a bit more to get something that will be better, 950m or 960m. The 960m is pretty much the starter video card you want in a "gaming" laptop, the rest will have compromises like needing to lower resolution or running everything on low settings.