Help choosing a laptop for my 10 year old daughter
dmvdmeij1989 An Intel Xe graphics chip of either standard flavor (80 or 96 EUs) is a lot faster than the 610M. But the 610M is faster than the particular Intel UHD graphics chips in the second and third options. "UHD" unfortunately covers a lot of different chips.
TechnicalCity has good information a lot of the time but is sometimes very far off. I don't know why but suspect that some DNF/crash results are clouding the data, which is not uncommon on these types of sites. Synthetic tests are also often misleading because they don't always mimic real-world workloads. That's why I check a few different sites and discard any data that's far outside the average from the other sites.
There's also the fact that results can vary widely from one game or test to another. And there's the fact that some tests are run at or near release, when a driver might not be updated for the new hardware or to make it work with older games; and those test results may never be removed from the database the site is using.
Point is, it can get really complicated, and even absorbing all the available data doesn't necessarily offer an actual answer.
This is my favorite site to check, although I always check others too:
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Radeon-610M-vs-Iris-Xe-G7-80EUs_11423_10395.247598.0.html
I like it because it tests real games, although results can be skewed when one GPU only has a small sample size. It can also show more granular behavior, for example maybe card X is beating card Y in the averages but only because card X is winning by a large margin at high resolutions. If the user is going to play at 1080p, results at 1440p or 4k would obviously not matter.
In the above link, you can see how results are kind of all over the map, which is a bit unusual but not overly so. What I can say for sure is that I haven't yet had anyone show up here or on Answers HQ with a 7x20 iGPU that won't run Sims 4, or that has lag or crashing bad enough for them to reach out for help. The chip is sort of new but not so much that it hasn't made it to Sims players at all yet.
For general use, all these graphics chips are fine. Sims 4 is orders of magnitude more demanding to run than anything in a browser, and most general use is about the CPU and RAM anyway. The processors are more than fine for now and should be for a few years, at least; beyond that, it depends on how greedy everyday desktop apps get as time goes by.
