Extra cost for 'better' video card

vansboy

Hi all,

Looking at two Dell Esperion New 15 5000 laptops, are they a good choice for general home use and is the £20ish extra worth having NVIDIA GeForce MX250 2GB GDDR5

Instead of

Intel UHD 620 with shared memory

Sorry, cant post links from fone but on the Dell uk website offer price £679 or £660 ish. And all other spec is same, which makes them appear good machines.

Thanks in advance

Vb

JJ_Egan

Shared memory means it takes some of the system memory to run GPU .As opposed to Nvidia using its own memory to run .

J_B

vansboy said:

Sorry, cant post links from fone but on the Dell uk website offer price £679 or £660 ish.

Presume you mean Inspiron?

This?

https://www.dell.com/en-uk/shop/laptops-notebooks-and-2-in-1-laptops/inspiron-15-5000-laptop/spd/inspiron-15-5590-laptop#tabs_section

vansboy

J_B said:

vansboy said:

Sorry, cant post links from fone but on the Dell uk website offer price £679 or £660 ish.

Presume you mean Inspiron?

This?

https://www.dell.com/en-uk/shop/laptops-notebooks-and-2-in-1-laptops/inspiron-15-5000-laptop/spd/inspiron-15-5590-laptop#tabs_section

Thats the one, thanks. Seems much better in appearence than the previous generation and would hopefully do more than I really would need.

Not interested in gaming, but just general use and some photo editing...possibly video too, if I can find the patience.

VB

TheRightOne

vansboy said:

J_B said:

vansboy said:

Sorry, cant post links from fone but on the Dell uk website offer price £679 or £660 ish.

Presume you mean Inspiron?

This?

https://www.dell.com/en-uk/shop/laptops-notebooks-and-2-in-1-laptops/inspiron-15-5000-laptop/spd/inspiron-15-5590-laptop#tabs_section

Thats the one, thanks. Seems much better in appearence than the previous generation and would hopefully do more than I really would need.

Not interested in gaming, but just general use and some photo editing...possibly video too, if I can find the patience.

VB

You can read more about your choice here; https://laptopmedia.com/review/dell-vostro-5590-review-the-empire-strikes-back/

DoaM

https://www.notebookcheck.net/UHD-Graphics-620-vs-GeForce-MX250_8098_9561.247598.0.html

Comparison between the 2 options.The NVIDIA will have better performance, but if you're not gaming or video editing the it probably doesn't matter.

TheRightOne

To be honest, it seems a lot of money, for something not particularly amazing. Screen can only achieve 52% of sRGB.
But then one usually pays a premium to get the latest processors.

Cisco001

Look expensive to me.
I would probably wait for Ryzen5/ 7 4000

hugh1988

Absolutely worth the extra £20, especially as you're spending £600. You'll probably get a couple more years more out of it before it becomes too slow to even browse the internet. But if you can find a laptop with a Ryzen processor you will probably bet getting a better deal.