What are the merits of buying a laptop with discrete Nvidia or AMD graphics now that Intel has the Intel® Iris® Xe MAX graphics chip for laptops? I am a power user
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NVIDIA GeForce MX250 vs Intel Iris Plus G7 – the NVIDIA GPU offers 50% better performance at lower cost
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NVIDIA GeForce MX450 found to be 33.5% faster than the MX350 in gaming — half the memory bandwidth and ROPs of the GTX 1650 but with higher power draw than the GTX
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