Is this laptop good for games?

[lukaking032]

Hello, I saw this laptop for about 500$ and it has A8-4500M Quad Core (1.9GHz, 4M, 2.8GHz Turbo, 35W) processor, 4Gb RAM and AMD Radeon HD 7640G APU + AMD Radeon 7470M 1GB DDR3 Dual Graphics. The main reason why I'm asking is because I am starting out as a game developer on Unity3D (hearthstone was made in it for example) and currently I have Dual Core 2.4Ghz 2Gb RAM and 256Mb gpu (my gpu was better but died haha) and I have small problems, sometimes my games have low fps when they shouldn't. The second reason why I'm asking is because I like to play games like Assassin's Creed, Portal 2, Dota etc. so would it run these games? I have no experience with dual graphics...

 

[hang-the-9]

No, it's not "good" for games but it will run most on low settings at least. You can pretty much judge a gaming laptop on price. $1,000 + will get you a nice system for Medium settings on the top games (in general that is, there could be some games where even a 1k laptop will need to run them on Low), about $700-1,000 you are looking at a decent system but some games will be on Low settings. For $500 you are barely scraping the "gaming" range.

Go here http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu_list.php find your video card, as a general rule I see on that site, for a low end gaming card you want to be in the low 200 range. For a "good gaming" card, you want to be in the low 100s at least. The true gaming cards are under 100 overall rank.