Laptop Graphics 2020: Integrated vs. Disit, Which Should You Buy?


Integrated graphics, jokes among PC gamers are long – the technology is so useless that it comes free from your laptop, finally due to some respect.

Integrated graphics that don’t stink started with the Raizen 3000, and continued with Intel’s 10th-gen Ice Lake and again with the Raizen 4000. However, Intel gave it another boost when it introduced its 11th General “Tiger Lake” CPU with the Iris Z. Graphics.

And yes, it can Crisis. Not a revised version, but a 2007 one. Here is the proof (see the blue bars below):

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Intel’s Core i7-1185G7 as well as Raizen 7 4800U can actually run a crisis (2007 a).

The 2007 game show, even if it makes its own internet souvenir, doesn’t care much about people. So yes, it can run Rise of the Tomb Rider Also, which is 2015. Set at very high altitudes at 1080p resolution, Iris Z and Radion do reasonably well. With lower settings and lower resolution, it’s better.

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Set to low resolution and with a few tweaks, it’s perfectly possible to play games like Rise the F The Comb Rider on unified graphics at enjoyable frame rates.

We can go further with integrated graphics, but we know you want to see how Iris Z and Radeon compare with GeForce cards. To do that, we reached out to the results of various laptops reviewed to compare Tiger Lake and Raisen. While that descriptive graphics makes a difference in the CPU graphics score on a laptop, sticking with 3Dmark’s synthetic Sky Diver results in a graphics-bound of about 90 percent.

One of the weaknesses of Sky Diver is that it runs separate tests focused on the GPU and then the CPU. Although it gives you a good way to judge GPU or CPU performance, it doesn’t give you much insight into what can happen during loading together when both are heavily used in many games. It doesn’t make you lie, you need to understand the consequences.

For the GPU we pulled scores from Nvidia’s low-end GF-RS MX150, MX250 and MX330 and threw in two GF Geras GTX 1650 GPUs. One is the Max-Q, while the other is the full-power version. To really take it further, we can also get scores of various HD laptops, aged Raizen APUs and Kabi Lake Gino. Kabi Lake G, if you don’t remember, the smaller package has a combined Intel CPU with a custom Radeon graphics chip.

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The integrated graphics of both the 11th-Gen Tiger Lake and the Raizen 7 4800U are now more easily surpassed by the GFMRX MX GPU in artificial tests.

To make the results a little easier to read, we’ve highlighted them by brand color: green for Nvidia, red for AMD and blue for Intel. The fastest slowest order in the chart. No wonder, at the bottom is Intel’s basic UHD graphics CPU.