Four generations of Intel HD Graphics tested

[IlllI]

http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/three-generations-intel-hd-graphics-tested/

although not a comprehensive test, some might find it interesting.

 

[Silverforce11]

Very interesting that the synthetic bench, Intel GPU perform excellent on paper but in real games it falls flat on it's face.

What's the cause, real games have too much textures to make it bandwidth bottlenecked? Or simply Intel drivers aren't optimized?

Synthetic:

Games:

 

[xorbe]

My guess, constrained by system memory bandwidth / latency.

 

[Rngwn]

I guess that the Cloud Gate synthetic benchmark is probably too CPU-centric which favors Intel's stronger CPU whereas GPUs are more stressed in the most demanding games. I think Firestrike should be the more accurate comparison for demanding video games.

PS, now that the 6th gen NUC is purchasable from Amazon, would be excited if the Iris 540 would be added to the comparison soon. This particular GPU performs 50-70% better than the HD 520 when it is not throttled.

 

[ShintaiDK]

Note all but HD530 and 7870K is mobile. No EDRAM parts tested and no info on memory speed used.

 

[AtenRa]

The used the Core i7 6700K ($350) for the HD530 so they used at least DDR-4 2133MHz. But this is getting ridiculous not to post the Hardware and Software used on the review.

 

[Gikaseixas]

Conclusion: A cpu with Skylake cores and GCN cores would rule them all

 

[Silverforce11]

Conclusion: A cpu with Skylake cores and GCN cores would rule them all

Zen APU + HBM2.

 

[NTMBK]

The used the Core i7 6700K ($350) for the HD530 so they used at least DDR-4 2133MHz. But this is getting ridiculous not to post the Hardware and Software used on the review.

Doesn't Skylake support DDR3L, too?

It's a bit ridiculous. They could have used anything from single channel DDR3 up to dual channel DDR4. We need more info!

 

[railven]

Conclusion: A cpu with Skylake cores and GCN cores would rule them all

More reason for Intel to buy them patents off of AMD 😉

Put em to good use.

 

[Piroko]

Very interesting that the synthetic bench, Intel GPU perform excellent on paper but in real games it falls flat on it's face.

And noone who has actually tried to play on one is surprised.

 

[jpiniero]

My guess, constrained by system memory bandwidth / latency.

No it's definitely the lack of driver optimization. Considering how little effort devs put into PC versions it shouldn't be surprising how much drivers matter in terms of overall performance. nVidia (and AMD to an extent) are reoptimizing things and putting in hacks to make it faster that Intel isn't doing.

 

[LTC8K6]

I suspect that minimum frame rates would show that HD530 and 7870K are mostly tied. Where HD530 is unplayable, 7870K is better, but still unplayable.

 

[2is]

I haven't used Skylake IGP but I have used the HD4600 in Haswell. I found it just adequate enough to run CS:GO @ 1080P. I don't recall the exact settings other than I had MSAA off.

 

[AtenRa]

Doesn't Skylake support DDR3L, too?

It's a bit ridiculous. They could have used anything from single channel DDR3 up to dual channel DDR4. We need more info!

Im with you we need reviewers to specify exactly what they use but HD530 with 1600MHz would not get those numbers.