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So I have an AMD A10 Kaveri Laptop that also has a GPU with 1gb of VRAM. When I game on it, CSGO or MineCraft, am I using integrated graphics, or the GPU? What is the difference from the APU and the GPU in the laptop? Is there any way to select to use either the GPU or the APU while doing any task?

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So I have an AMD A10 Kaveri Laptop that also has a GPU with 1gb of VRAM. When I game on it, CSGO or MineCraft, am I using integrated graphics, or the GPU? What is the difference from the APU and the GPU in the laptop? Is there any way to select to use either the GPU or the APU while doing any task?

what what? that makes no sense, how have you got an apu laptop with a gpu too, they dont normally make them like that, you sure its not just an apu that has 1gb of vram?

 

my a10-7300 is an apu that has 1gb of vram.

 

btw my laptop is a acer e5-551

 

yeah im pretty sure youre confused, an apu is a cpu/gpu in one.

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If there's only one graphics unit in this laptop, what's your question? Do you mean, there's a dedicated GPU except for the one of the APU? The difference between the APU and a dedicated GPU is that the APU is basically a CPU with integrated graphics on the DIE and the dedicated GPU has its own.

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If there's only one graphics unit in this laptop, what's your question? Do you mean, there's a dedicated GPU except for the one of the APU? The difference between the APU and a dedicated GPU is that the APU is basically a CPU with integrated graphics on the DIE and the dedicated GPU has its own.

WHen I game, can I switch to use the dedicated GPU instead of the CPU graphics?

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what what? that makes no sense, how have you got an apu laptop with a gpu too, they dont normally make them like that, you sure its not just an apu that has 1gb of vram?

 

my a10-7300 is an apu that has 1gb of vram.

 

btw my laptop is a acer e5-551

 

yeah im pretty sure youre confused, an apu is a cpu/gpu in one.

I most likely am. 

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Didn't know they made Kaveri Mobile apu's... My laptop has a different socket that doesn't support kaveri now that I look at it. I can however upgrade to a much better a10-5750m, my question is, what kind of frame rates do you see on CSGO? That is what I play most often and was looking to hit 60fps consistently at 1080p in DM.
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Didn't know they made Kaveri Mobile apu's... My laptop has a different socket that doesn't support kaveri now that I look at it. I can however upgrade to a much better a10-

5750m, my question is, what kind of frame rates do you see on CSGO? That is what I play most often and was looking to hit 60fps consistently at 1080p in DM.

I ran it on medium for 50-60 frames, no motion blur no anti aliasing. I ran it maxed out, I get drops from 30-60
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The graphics inside an APU is a R6? (should be R7) 250.

You are just seeing that.

 

How much RAM does your laptop have?

Is there possibilities for upgrading to more RAM?

 

If so, you should buy a fast, 2x4GB SODIMM 2400MHz kit if your laptops mobo supports it. This would, in theory, give your intergrated graphics 2GB of "VRAM" to use....

The A10 APU is configured to "reserve" 1GB of RAM as its own "VRAM" for each 4GB of system RAM you got. You may need to fiddle with the BIOS to make it do this, however.

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The graphics inside an APU is a R6? (should be R7) 250.

You are just seeing that.

 

How much RAM does your laptop have?

Is there possibilities for upgrading to more RAM?

 

If so, you should buy a fast, 2x4GB SODIMM 2400MHz kit if your laptops mobo supports it. This would, in theory, give your intergrated graphics 2GB of "VRAM" to use....

The A10 APU is configured to "reserve" 1GB of RAM as its own "VRAM" for each 4GB of system RAM you got. You may need to fiddle with the BIOS to make it do this, however.

I have 8gb of Ram
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