Comments on: Intel integrated HD Graphics 4000 doubles gaming power

By: Czar_x3

Czar_x3 — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 17:39:00 +0000

Im new at this (video cards and pc specs) so sorry for my ignorance, but could anyone tell me if this means i dont need to buy an extra vide card like ati or nvidia? then i can play for example dota 2 just with my intel HD 4000 Integrated video card. Cause ive been told that integrated video cards suck and that if im planning to have a PC or a laptop/notebook, then it should have Nvida or ATI. And is it cheaper than having a separated video card?.

By: Mahsoom Moosa42

Mahsoom Moosa42 — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 09:10:00 +0000

Basically, dedicated graphics is a bottleneck for ultra books as it limits the thin form factor.intel has claimed that the graphics on haswell is heavily upgraded. perhaps, they moved to TBDR architecture.(a move from coined zero rendering, I think so).

By: Matti

Matti — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 13:56:00 +0000

Problem is, they claimed the exact same thing for the HD3000 and HD4000

By: Moosa Mahsoom

Moosa Mahsoom — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 02:35:00 +0000

I think Ivy Bridge was designed for creating better ultrabooks. Haswell too will be a lot like that. Anyway, HD4000 should be better than the graphics on iPad and all ARM devices.

By: Moosa Mahsoom

Moosa Mahsoom — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 02:33:00 +0000

honestly, a gaming laptop with integrated graphics. you’ll need wait for haswell for that….a graphics powerhouse as intel claims.

By: CyberGusa

CyberGusa — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 21:42:00 +0000

Yes and no, it’s more like it finally doesn’t suck and finally provides decent entry level performance but you should check out Anandtech’s latest benchmarks, the HD 4000 pulls slightly ahead of the AMD HD6620G in most benchmarks and falls slightly behind on a few. So can compare to that GPU’s general performance for an idea of the kind of performance to expect from the HD4000.

The compensation though is it provides the increased performance without increasing power consumption but even lowering it a bit.

While Haswell is coming out in 2013 for another performance boost, as well as efficiency improvement as they move Ivy Bridge to a SoC/MCM package for Haswell.

Though neither Intel’s or Even AMD’s embedded GPUs will be replacing discrete graphic cards any time soon for the serious, high end, graphic users.

By: scxfan

scxfan — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 20:07:00 +0000

So the graphics are just less sucktacular now?

By: MadisonBernard

MadisonBernard — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 19:32:00 +0000

DOTA 2 is not a demanding game, there is no advanced physics or unique graphical effects going on or anything rather impressive. It will be interesting how it handles large scale battles though, regardless of the settings. Games like UT3, TF2, CS:Source should do just fine on the chips but these are dated graphical workloads (though still impressive graphically)

I recently saw some benchmarks of the more mainstream Asus N56V running an i7-3720 Ivy Bridge chip running Metro 2033 at 1366×768 Resolution, AAA, 4 AF, High settings at a crawling 11FPS.

We all saw this coming but there will be no fan fair for Intel until Haswell can prove otherwise.

By: JohnBoy_NYC

JohnBoy_NYC — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 17:45:00 +0000

Honestly the HD3000 graphics are the biggest performance bottleneck for ultrabooks. I can’t wait for a decent Ivy Bridge ‘gaming’ laptop with long battery life.