Gaming performance on Mid range APU Laptops

[herulach]

So, with being away so much with work I've decided to grab myself a half decent gaming laptop to occupy me in hotel rooms. Nothing staggering graphics wise, EUIV, CK2 Civ 5 etc Notwithstanding that they're all pretty CPU intensive games, they also perform like ass on HD4000 based i5 laptop I've tried them on.

Since the FX apus appear to be unavailable I'm thinking something like an A10 7400, which can be picked up in £450 laptops. This is literally only for use out and about so I don't want to be dropping £1k on some crazy SLI beast, but given how sensitive to things like memory bandwidth the APUs are I'm a bit sceptical about whether they'll really hold up in non reference situations.

Does anyone have much experience with them?

[Millennium]

Great question.

Unfortunately my answer is "no" though if you can find out the codename for the architecture of the specific APU you are interested in buying you may find an architectural overview here, perhaps on anandtech or guru3d, hopefully something with benchmarks you might glance over of similar APU clocks and memory bandwidth figures.

Consider this a free bump though.

[Bagnaj97]

I've got a laptop with an A10-5750m with 1600 ram and it runs Diablo 3 and World of Warcraft reasonably well. I've had to turn some settings down in WoW, but it's very much playable on there and WoW is fairly CPU bound.

Things aren't helped by the fact that my particular laptop model (Lenovo G505s) suffers from overheating and resultant throttling.

If you're not trying to run everything on super ultra mega settings those games should be fine.