I'm not a proper "PC Master Race", but didn't find a better place to find some help.

Alright, so I will try to give a bit of context. Also feel free to ask more info if necessary.

I have a 2020 low budget laptop, called Lenovo IdeaPad S145. 8 GB ram (6 GB usable), Ryzen 5 3500U, Vega 8 (Integrated video card with 2 GB VRAM) and 1 TB HDD. It's a laptop for college stuff, but I have being playing plenty of games in the past 2 years.

I can run a surprisely great amount of games I never had the opportunity to play, but one thing that is making me mad though. Some games just stutter A LOT.

For example, today I tried to play GTA with a friend who just bought the game for the first time. Whenever I get into a car and start to drive, or get into a flying vehicle and fly low but fast, my game will stutter. Micro stutterings happens almost all time too. I don't have bad fps, though, about 30-40 when I'm in downtown, and almost 60 when I'm in more isolated areas/inside buildings. Keep in mind fps isn't the problem (I'm used to playing old emulated games and I own multiple portables, looking at you Nintendo), but stutterings make me mad.

My question is: should I upgrade my laptop, getting a SSD?

Is a SSD the bottleneck for this kind of game (massive open world)? Or it's better to upgrade the RAM? Just keep in mind that I have two slots for RAM, both occupied with 2x4GB in dual channel (one of the RAM sticks is soldered).

For me, a complete dumb about pc hardware, it makes more sense to upgrade from a 50-100 MB/s HDD to a 5000 MB/s SSD NVME rather than removing a 4 GB RAM stick and change it for a 8 GB one instead. Am I wrong?

I'm not demanding, just a guy wanting to enjoy his slow ass PC with the least amount of stutterings as possible, until I get a new laptop by the end of 2024.

Help me bro 🙃