Question Is it better to buy a laptop with more RAM or one with a dedicated GPU?

[siddjain]

I am looking at two laptops. One has 8GB RAM with a dedicated GPU w/ 2GB RAM:
https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/dell-laptops-and-notebooks/vostro-15-3590-laptop/spd/vostro-15-3590-laptop/cav153w10p1c2068
Vostro 15 3590 Laptop
10th Generation Intel® Core™ i7-10510U Processor (8MB Cache, up to 4.9 GHz)

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  Windows 10 Pro 64-bit English
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  AMD Radeon™ 610 Series with 2G GDDR5 graphics memory
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  8GB, 8Gx1, DDR4, 2666MHz

and another has 12GB RAM with shared graphics memory:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/lenovo-ideapad-s540-14api-notebook/8wzf50frhwv0?activetab=pivot:techspecstab
Lenovo IdeaPad S540-14API 81NH0019US Notebook
• AMD Ryzen 7 3700U • 12GB memory/512GB SSD

which of these will give me better performance? thanks.

EDIT: I will not be playing games on the laptop. I am an interior designer and will be running AutoCAD, Revitt, Adobe Illustrator etc.

Another laptop I have found at same price point is this:
Acer Nitro 5 AN515-55-55SD
Its advertised as a gaming laptop but has 8GB RAM, 512 GB SSD and dedicated graphics card. The processor is 10th Generation Intel Processor - Intel Core i5-10300H (2.50 GHz) which is less powerful.

Can someone help me decide which will be best for me? thanks

 

[USAFRet]

"better performance", for what use?

Managing multiple code heavy Excel sheets is different than gaming.

 

[BrianD097]

Since you are primarily going to be running AutoCAD, you should be better off using the one with a dedicated GPU rather than a RAM. You could certainly upgrade the RAM in the future, so I feel dedicated graphics RAM should be the pick.

In that case, I would suggest that you need the Dell Vostro 15 3590, which is only 50 bucks more than the IdeaPad S540 and a great buy. The laptops you have shortlisted are pretty closely matched in terms of features and performance. Happy to be of any help! Cheers!

 

[siddjain]

thanks. what about the Acer laptop in that case? Its GPU is much faster and has 2x RAM than Dell Vostro. in fact even though it has an i-5 CPU that CPU is presumably faster than the i-7 in Dell Vostro. See this:

https://www.videocardbenchmark.net/compare/GeForce-GTX-1650-vs-Radeon-620-vs-GeForce-GTX-1650-(Mobile)/4078vs4208vs4090

and

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/Intel-i5-10300H-vs-Intel-i7-10510U/3646vs3549

how can an i-5 beat an i-7 (both are 10th generation)