News - Sandy Bridge IGPs show huge performance-boost

[GaryRW]

Anandtech is also one of the most derided tech sites around. Did you know he got a full new server of Xeons today?

The point should be pretty obvious, when a single benchmark out of what 5 benchmarks is so hugely skewed in favour of certain cpu's, then the gpu's can't be properly compared.

Take out that Dragon Age result and guess what happens?

for my 2p worth, I see lots of people accuse Anandtech of being biased in favour of Intel. I seem to see equal numbers of people saying it's biased in favour of AMD. In the AMD vs Nvidia stakes, again I seem to see strangely equal numbers of people suggesting bias one way or the other... (I make no comment about the accuracy of those accusations, just commenting on the volume of them )

Anyway - I think the important point is that however you try to paint it, an Intel IGP is trading blows with an AMD/ATI discrete graphics card. Whether it wins by 10%, draw even, loses by 10% is kind of irrelevant to me, as 10% here or there can be put down to exact choice of games. Admittedly the 5450 is bottom of the discrete card barrel, but still - Intel seem to have started taking IGP seriously.

I did assume when I first read the Anandtech article that Intel's target would be OpenCL rather than gaming, but a quick google suggests Intel are behind everyone else on implementation of support for that.

[this_is_gav]

The GPU might have some grunt, who knows (yet)... but unless the drivers have come on a long way, it's all a bit of a moot point.

[Jimbo75]

http://www.anandtech.com/show/3871/t...ns-in-a-row/13

(Update: it looks like we may have had a 12 EU part from the start)

What a yawner. I guess this means the $500+ top end part will have 12 EU's while the mainstream parts have 6 EU's and ~50% of this performance (which incidentally isn't much of an upgrade over the i5 661).

Nothing to get excited about here. Really. Intel doesn't give a damn about graphics and this sort of nonsense is proof of that.

[sammorris]

Believe it when I see it. Would take a massive 500% jump in performance to take on even the lowest end current cards like the HD5450.