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Most but not all programs run off the Nvidia card, using Nvidia control panel. (media players don't, drop down option is greyed out). Windows desktop doesn't seem to use the nvdia card either... Main reason I wanted to use the dedicated gpu was to prevent the onboard from hogging system ram...

I got myself an acer aspire A515-51G-503E. 1st time owning a laptop with a dedicated GPU. I'm running win10. The laptop uses both the intel and nvidia gpus depending on the program. Many of the programs can be set to use the Nvidia card through Nvidia control panel (not all i.e. Win media...

For a laptop that was released almost three years ago it still has pretty decent specs,still competent lowish mid range gaming laptop. You see refurbished laptop with similar specs (you see alot of laptops with I7 4720's on them which are about 10% faster than yours and you GPU is comperable to...

The two chips would have similar overall performance so it comes down to the programs you run. The intel chip has 2 cores the AMD has 4. The intel chip has much better performance per core, for most gaming and web browsing use two more powerful cores are better than 4 weaker ones, for high...