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):
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.
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.
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.
The first red bar below is AMD’s older Raizen 3000 chip, although a bit disappointing compared to the Raizen 4000, competing with Nvidia’s GeForce MX150, a decent performer in graphics.
As we move up the charts, we see that Intel’s 10th-generation Iris Plus graphics suddenly become a player. It competes with the Raizen 7 3580U as well as the GForce MX150, and the GFORS MX250 and JFRMX MX330. We are expecting Nvidia’s New GeForce MX450 to reset expectations, which is not yet out.
Where the integrated graphics become really interesting is the 11th-gen Tiger Lake and Iris Z, as well as the Raisin 7 4800U with its radon graphics. Like the Iris Zeni, the Raizen 7 is far from the 4800U, the GeForce MX330. Iris Xe scores, we need to point out, are based on pre-production reference laptops. How fast Iris Z in a production laptop depends a lot on the design of the laptop, so you can expect the Iris Z to be somewhere between the lowest score and the highest score.
With its Iris Z temporarily slowing down to 13% on its power setting, a GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q GPU comes close. The Core i7-1185G7 is also terribly close to the Core i7-8705G with a custom Radeon RX Vega GPU. Leading the list and no remote risk is the FFGS GTX 1650. We will point out that the GForce GTX 1650 has a 50-GP GPU and a larger and heavier XPS 15 7590 laptop.
Integrated graphics have basically come a long way. You can see that was illustrated below when we captured the results of the 4th Gen Haswell CPU Sky Diver from HD 4400 graphics to today’s 11th General Iris Z graphics.
So yes internet, you have started looking for something else for fun.