GPU heat production

[CrisR82]

While replacing my currently broken laptop with a new one, at one of the bigger stores here I heard a very interesting comment that I never thought about before:

"I recommend you get a laptop with better CPU and Intel HD GPU. While those are far less powerful, they produce much less heat so the chance for it dying like your old one are much lower"

Is there any truth to this? I'm really curious to know. (like is a Intel HD GPU really generating much less heat than a nVidia GT218M for example?)

My current laptop supposedly died from either a GPU or power supply failure by the way.

 

[RealBeast]

I would put that in the "I read it on the Internet so it must be true" trash heap.

The most common component to die on laptops is the battery, then the HDD, probably followed by the PSU. If you don't sit with the laptop on a pillow or something soft blocking the cooling vents, and occasionally clean it by using compressed air, overheating damaging components is quite uncommon.

I would go with an integrated video solution if it is sufficient for what you need, otherwise get a discrete graphic card for better performance (like any kind of gaming that is video intensive).

 

[velo3100]

It is true that dgpu's will produce more heat but it will only affect you if you play a lot of games or do a lot of gpu intensive tasks.

As long as the laptop is used in the way it is supposed to, most laptops will not fail on you. I learned that the hard way by putting my laptop through the most intense tests, I don't mean benchmarks, that I could think of it. As a result it lost the ability to do anything with 3d and now I use it for normal things. This can be solved by me cleaning it but asus makes it hard to clean the interior.