i7 8550u with AMD Radeon 530 or i7 7500u with Nvidia 940 MX

[satwick1995]

I'm looking to buy a laptop, but I cannot decide between the above two options. I have always preferred Nvidia over AMD, but currently I have laptops with i7 8th gen, bundled with AMD, and i7 7th gen bundled with Nvidia.

Should I still prefer Nvidia over AMD ? Or Intel's 8th gen over 7th ?

I need to use the laptop for Android development, occassional video encoding, running virtual machines and sometimes for gaming.

 

[hang-the-9]

Run PassMark on both, pick the one with the best score. For what you want, outside of the gaming part, they should be pretty much equal.