Purchasing a work/gaming/ school laptop.

[mr_lebowski]

8. That does look better, however based on the OSD there it's on an i7, not an i3 ...

I see 8 cores (actually likely it's 4c/4ht config which is an i7).

The first vid is the exact config you're looking at ... and that is choppy to the point of total non-playability. And the settings are REALLY low, it looks like total crap.

The AMD is playing it perfectly and I'm guessing those are a bit higher settings it's doing it with. AMD has been doing better integrated graphics for quite some time now at the same price points, frankly.

Yes it's possible the intel machine is being memory limited since RAM/VRAM are shared on machines like this (I don't consider the 16GB of 'optane' useful for gaming honestly), but the out-of-box is just terrible. And why isn't the AMD suffering from the same?

I'd want to add 4GB physical ram no matter what anyway (to either) so I guess the intel is worth a try. Could just take it back if it won't game. Same RAM stick will work in either machine so you'd not have to return that.

I see the 20GB total ram on the Ryzen ... at your link, under product highlights