Surface Pro 4 i5 vs Lenovo Y700 14inch

[JamesG1990]

I have a Surface Pro 4 i5 with 8GB of ram and an Intel HD520. I might sell that on ebay and buy this one: http://www3.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/ideapad/ideapad-y700-series/Lenovo-IdeaPad-Y700-14ISK/p/88IPY700617 as it has dedicated graphics. How big of a performance boost will I see from the AMD Radeon R9 M375 2GB vs the Intel HD 520?

The price also seems good as it is on sale and the Y700 14inch has gotten good reviews.

 

[jaguarskx]

Click link below for some benchmarks of the R9 M375. Based on the middle which lists many mobile and a few desktop GPUs, the R9 M375 ranks at the top of the Class 3 performance which places it between the nVidia GT 840m and the 940m. That's basically considered a mainstream GPU, but definitely better than the Intel HD 520 for games.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Radeon-R9-M375.142636.0.html


I recommend you buy the following 15.6" Dell Inspiron 7559 laptops for $666. It has a quad core i5-6300HQ CPU, nVidia GTX 960 and a good IPS 1080p screen. It was basically one of the best affordable gaming laptop back in late 2015 thru late 2016. You can find a lot of favorable video reviews on Youtube. There is only one left in stock. I have this laptop with 16GB of RAM, a 256GB SSD and 1TB HDD.


https://www.amazon.com/Dell-Inspiron-i7559-12623BLK-Generation-GeForce/dp/B015PYZ186/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1494303415&sr=8-5&keywords=dell+7559