Are the APU A6-5350M/Radeon HD 8450G Good for gaming?

[Snoopy]

The spec are:
AMD APU A6-5350M Dual-Core (2.9 ghz with turbo up to 3.5)
AMD Radeon HD 8450G
4GB DDR3 RAM

[Snoopy]

I'm not going to be playing any intense games. Crysis 3 and Titanfall are out of the question. I mean more like Black Mesa, HL Series, Portal 2, TF2, and Dream.

I also don't need the graphics set on High. As long as it dosen't look horrible I'm ok.

[Snoopy]

I'm able to run all of these games (except Dream because I haven't attempted it yet) on my current 7 year old laptop with a 2 ghz dual core processor, Nvidia 64mb integrated graphics card, and 3 GB of RAM. I don't understand. Why wouldn't it run on the newer laptop with higher specs? I'm just looking to play these games without all of the bells and whistles turned off.

[Elon Mosque]

You can play those gams whith AMD APU like 7850K which is the new APU and whith high speed rams there will be no problems at all in those games.

[Snoopy]

Can I play them on medium to high with the specs listed above?
All of the games I currently play, and would like to play in the future are [in no specific order]:
1) Black Mesa
2) HL Series
3) Portal 1 & 2
4) TF2
5) Dream
6) Sonic Generations
7) QUBE
8) Warframe
9) Dota
10) Moonbase Alpha
11) Warthunder
12) Hawken

[Elon Mosque]

You can read this article to get better information about this APU http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/a10-7850k-a8-7600-kaveri,3725.html
And yes i think you can run all of them maybe dota could lag a bit at highest.

[Snoopy]

great, thanks! What about the GPU? Will that play those games? If it can, then the APU A6-5350M/Radeon HD 8450G Laptop sound like a good investment for my gaming needs.

[Snoopy]

Thank you guys for your help so far. I just have one last question. Will the APU A6-5350M/Radeon HD 8450G combo be able to at least smoothly run most of the game I listed? (I can deal with low settings for the more demanding ones)

[Snoopy]

Yeah, I can't push my budget any farther than $320. That was already way above my initial expectations. I just want something that can play the games I already own and do day-to-day tasks. If I am going to do any next-gen gaming, then its going to be on an Xbox One/PS4 (which won't be for several years due to my limited budget.) If the AMD powered computer can play the 12 games above, I'm good.

[Snoopy]

I appreciate that. Thank you for your help.
Is gamedebate a good indicator if a pc can handle a game? I checked my specs with the games on gamedebate and it said I could run most of them on high, while others were on low to GD adjusted.

[mika]

I think you schould be ok with the games you mentioned- I just built a A10 6800 k but I havent tested it yet so I cant say for sure yes you will max these games or they will suck!..... My general advice would be if your Apu cant pust the Frames maybe pick-up a smaller resolution Monitor? ........ Ive ran my old system with crossfired Radeon 6570s but my Resolution was 1366x768 and I was getting 60-70 fps in Crysis 2-a very demanding game! If you have a 1920x1080 monitor which is considered full-Hd then maybe your Apu might start to struggle a bit?- More pixles to push means less fps. You gotta make some kind of sacrifice when your building on a budget ya know>?