We expect multiplayer gameplay to be even smoother when compared to the more graphic-intensive single player campaign. EA's Battlefield 3 is notorious for its demanding requirements. Consequently, we suggest playing the title with mid-range or high-end GPUs only. Fifa 12 is probably the least demanding game on the list.
Close-up during replay movies, however, will drop the average frame rates by a noticeable amount. Entry-level discrete graphics options from AMD and Nvidia still perform better than the HD in this title, but at least they are all an improvement over the HD Starcraft 2 will likely last for a few more years as it solidifies itself as the de facto RTS game. The HD is well-equipped to handle the Blizzard game as is the HD , although settings may have to be turned down to average or below, especially for big battles and single-player set pieces.
The following are benchmarks for the 8 remaining games. However, when compared to the previous HD , an increase in performance ranging from percent can be considered a general rule of thumb. Intel GPUs in the past have been notorious for their poor driver support in games.
Users have complained of artifacts and other glitches throughout a wide range of games, problems that don't normally exist across GPU solutions from Nvidia or AMD. After testing the HD , we've found that Intel may be slowly but surely improving their drivers.
Alan Wake, for example, has trouble running on the HD , but it can at least run correctly on the HD Still, additional problems persist in a number of games, including:. Overall, we are impressed by Intel's new integrated graphics core. The manufacturer has solidly improved over the previous HD by a rough average of 30 percent. Casual gamers who can live with low resolution gaming, disabled AA and subdued graphical eye candy may find the HD perfectly fine.
While obviously not a threat to anything higher than a mid-range dedicated GPU, low-end options from AMD or Nvidia can potentially be in serious trouble. Since integrated GPUs make up the vast majority of notebooks out there, Intel can essentially capture a large chunk of the graphics market away from competitors. With AMD Trinity rolling along in the next few months, however, the tides can turn just as easily if the new Fusion core can both impress and dethrone Intel from the Integrated graphics market.
Drop the quality down a bit and playability improves significantly: Over 50 fps at x from Intel integrated graphics is pretty impressive. Post Your Comment Please log in or sign up to comment.
Privacy Policy. Contact Us. Read a deeper discussion of Ivy Bridge laptop performance in general here. Street Fighter IV at 1,x ran at That's a huge leap. The integrated graphics still fall short of the performance of a GeForce GT M GPU around 44 frames per second on our two quad-core i7 Sandy Bridge laptops , but the result is much closer than it's ever been before.
Metro ran surprisingly close: at 1,x, it was about a frame per second off our Nvidia GT M laptops. That's not a playable frame rate, of course, but it shows how far integrated graphics have come to even approach such a test in the first place. It performed the benchmark at Here, the difference amounts to a much more playable game. But here's the real question: can it play Skyrim? We installed and ran Skyrim at 1,x1, and the Asus N56V was able to play it quite well with graphics settings at Low.
Character motion was fluid, and the landscape scrolled by without a hitch. Once set to Medium, frame rate dropped down to a choppy status I'd call unplayable. Keep those settings at Low, however, and Skyrim at 1,x1, is truly playable, and shockingly so. Battlefield 3, a graphically demanding game, was an even greater success story. HD Graphics Sandy Bridge. HD Graphics Bay Trail.
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