Are there any gaming reviews of the 5500M 4GB vs 8GB?
Posted Nov 21, 2019, 8:33 PM UTC
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Beyond gaming, one youtube video I saw, MaxTech I think, showed a dramatic speed up in. Blender benchmarks with 8GB most likely due to the size of those scenes. I use blender a lot so it’s 8GB for me.
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The closest review I could find is This: 5300M 4gb VS. 5500M 8gb
Note quite an Apples to Apples comparison because of the i7/i9 difference, but performance wise in low-core-count I expect them to be fairly close.
The 5500m 4GB is (on paper) 25% more performance than 5300m 4GB, so in theory you can extrapolate the effect of additional memory from any performance improvement beyond that.
However, the limited benchmarking done here doesn't bear that out - usually showing only a 7% improvement at best, and in some cases the i7 / 5300m actually outperforming the i9 / 5500m.
In practice, though 4GB vs 8GB makes little to no difference for most titles, and some/a lot of difference for others, but generally only when running at higher resolution settings and with higher textures... and that's on more powerful cards, using settings that even the 5500m will struggle at.