I'm wondering about the Radeon HD 8550G

[Miestermika]

I'm looking to get a cheap laptop off of QVC, and I'm looking at one with 8GB of RAM, a 1TB hard drive, A8-5550M CPU. Most of this seems decent for my needs, but I'm not very familiar with AMD hardware, and it has Radeon HD 8550G graphics. I understand that it's not a dedicated graphics card, but I'm wondering what sort of quality I can expect from light gaming? From what I've read it's not particularly great but will see greater returns with 8GB of RAM. I'd probably play things like Skyrim, MapleStory, Dishonored, Divinity 2, things like that.

 

[rolandzhang3]

You can expect to play those games at low-medium settings at 720p with that chip, it's a little bit more powerful than the ivy bridge Intel HD 4000.

It's not a bad chip for light gaming, and you'll definitely see greater returns with more ram, especially faster ram if your laptop supports it.

According to this site it performs close to the 7570m, not a bad graphics solution for a budget laptop, it'll certainly benefit from dual channel memory

http://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Radeon-HD-8550G.89651.0.html

 

[jaguarskx]

The performance will be that of a Radeon HD 6670 with DDR3 RAM. It has the performance that seems to be halfway between the Radeon HD 5570 and Radeon HD 5670. In slightly more modern terms it will be a bit slower than a Radeon HD 6570 which is also a bit slower than the Radeon HD 5670. Decent enough to play many games with medium settings at 1366x768 resolution.

 

[redula]

What is the MB rating of this thing in terms of video card features? Is it the equivalent of, say, an 8MB video card? Something higher? Something lower?