Hopefully, it is indeed delayed and not cancelled since there were cancellation rumors floating around. In 2014 Intel will be releasing Broadwell which should be provide a significant performance improvement as I stated in my previous post.ĪMD's Kaveri has been delayed yet again into 2014 so it will be competing against Broadwell instead of Haswell. AMD also needs to focus on lowering power consumption, but so far it hasn't yet. Will Intel's IGP loose ground in 2013 compared to AMD's IGP? Sure, I expect Richland's IGP performance gains will greater than 15%. How much more of an increase that will be is unknown, but the "flagship" graphics core should be faster than the Radeon HD 7660g. Their 3rd generation APU, Richland, will likely include the Sea Island GPU core (Radeon HD 8xxx series). Naturally, AMD will not be standing still. The Intel HD 4000? Since it is 35% more powerful on average than the HD 3000, it should give you better performance, but not sure if it will be enough performance. Crysis is not playable with the Intel HD 3000. Intel's IGP will let you play most games that are not very graphics intensive. Naturally, playing those games with the nVidia GT 550m was "funner", but if you have low expectations and a low budget. I had to reload a few times in the last major battle on Earth with several waves of enemies including Brutes and Banshees. I also completed Mass Effect 3 in Insanity Mode using the low graphics quality the game was definitely playable. I was able to play Fallout 3 with a mix of low and medium graphic settings which gave me pretty decent performance, not great, but decent. Http /I was testing out the Intel HD 3000 in my laptop (Lenovo IdeaPad Y470 with 1366x768 screen).
INTEGRATED INTEL GMA 4500 FULL
A the Intel HD 4000 in a quad core i7 "QM" CPU will be operating at full speed since these are the high end laptop performance CPUs where power consumption is not as important as in Ultrabooks. Ultrabooks will have the slowest version because the ULV Ivy Bridge CPUs are tweaked for low power consumption. The Intel HD 4000 more or less comes with 5 clockspeeds depending on which laptop CPU you intend on buying. Note that not all Intel HD 4000 in laptops are equal. The Intel HD 4000 is a fairly decent IGP especially since it is from Intel. CPU core performance aside, the "Intel HD 6000" (for lack of a better name) might see an average of 35% increase in performance over the "Intel HD 5000" similar to going from Sandy Bridge to Ivy Bridge. With the die shrink down to 14mn, Intel should be able to maintain low power consumption while increasing performance dramatically. This should change when Intel releases Broadwell in 2014. So the "Intel HD 5000" will likely be slower than the Radeon HD 7660g. maybe.), the clockspeeds are going to be lower to reduce power consumption. While the "Intel HD 5000" is going to be more powerful than the Intel HD 4000 (I'm guessing around 15%, maybe 20%.
But at least for the release of Haswell, the shaders are going to be used more for lowering power consumption rather than a large increase in performance. Not sure how many shaders the desktop versions will be (GT1 & GT2), perhaps they will have 16 shaders whatever. If they can improve optimization of their drivers, then Intel does not have to rely overwhelming on better hardware to improve performance.Įarlier in the year, there was an article about how the "Intel HD 5000" (not official name yet) was going to be a graphics core "monster" because it is going to have up to 20 shaders in the laptop CPU (GT3).
INTEGRATED INTEL GMA 4500 DRIVER
The one thing that holds back the performance of the Intel HD Family IGP is driver support. Interestingly enough, the Intel HD 4000 is overall more powerful than the nVidia GT 610m.
However, how long has AMD/ATI been producing integrated graphic cores that are capable of playing games compared to Intel? Yeah, sure, the Radeon HD 7660g does perform better than the Intel HD 4000. The Intel HD 4000 is basically equal to to the desktop Radeon HD 5550 and the integrated Radeon HD 7660g is basically equivalent to a desktop Radeon HD 5570. However, Intel has made very good progress since their GMA 4500 integrated graphic core in only a few years due to Apple's prodding for better integrated graphics performance. Notice I did not say "good" I said "fairly decent".
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