need a new laptop which of these two is better for gaming

[bennystar]

1) Acer Aspire E5-771G 17.3" HD+
GeForce 840M,Core i5-4210U,8GB RAM,1000GB
or
2) Acer Aspire E5-551G 15,6" HD matt
Radeon R7 M265 2GB, AMD A10-7300, 8GB RAM, 1000GB HDD,

is it better to have a quadcore and an alright video card or is it better to have a duel core and a better video card?

 

[BigBadBeef]

The words "laptop" and "gaming" kind of contradict each other for the price range you're looking at. For the same money you could build yourself a mini-itx system with quite a bit more bite!

But if you insist, buy the E5-551G, the graphics card is faster in gaming, the other one is only faster in synthetic benchmarks.

 

[DonkeyOatie]

Here are the benchmarks on the 265m
http://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Radeon-R7-M265.109394.0.html
and the 840m
http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-840M.105681.0.html

you can see that the M265 specs considerably below the 840m, scoring as much as 20FPS less in Battlefield.

The m265 + A10-7300 APU combination will also use more energy and produce more heat.

I would go with the Intel/NVidia build without hesitation, given the choice.

I would try and find a little more money or an open box/refurbish deal for:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00K6ZIO2K/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_dp_ss_2?pf_rd_p=1944687762&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=B00HIY8VLQ&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=0QSJ4R0JB9FPYGYMX6FZ

The 860m in the Lenovo y50 is a lot better for comparatively little more money.