Tim Sweeney once told me that a good looking game is half engine, half art. That's Batman running on Intel HD Graphicsīatman doesn’t look half bad at the playable IGP settings. In this case I ran Batman at 1024 x 768 with all quality options set to low. The first thing you need to remember about integrated graphics is that regardless of the game, you’ll want to go in and turn down every single quality setting at your disposal. We’ll start off with Batman: Arkham Asylum. We found in our 790GX review that AMD delivered roughly the same graphics performance (if not better) as the 9400 so any advantage/disadvantage here would apply to NVIDIA as well. The only absent member is NVIDIA's GeForce 9400. I’ve also tossed in a G45 board for good measure. If Intel can manage a win here, it'll be a convincing one. Our 790GX platform had 128MB of on-board memory to drive performance even higher. To show you how far it’s come I’ve pitted our Clarkdale based Core i5 661 against an AMD Phenom II X4 965 with 790GX graphics. Intel has finally delivered an integrated graphics solution that is at least competitive with existing IGPs on the market. It doesn’t take too much searching to prove that one.Ĭlarkdale does change that a bit. Intel gets a bum rap because while other IGPs may offer 30+ fps in games at the lowest quality settings, Intel can often only manage single digit frame rates. Apparently there are a number of internal tweaks and performance enhancements that should result in more than a 20% increase in performance though.Īll integrated GPUs regardless of vendor, pretty much suck. The GMA X4500 core from G45 had 10 shader processors. We won’t see Larrabee on a CPU for some years to come. The move to 45nm gave Intel the ability to beef up its graphics core a bit, but ultimately it’s the same architecture as the G45 - just faster. Intel integrated graphics is now just called Intel HD Graphics. With Clarkdale Intel has finally dropped the Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) prefix.
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