Intel B950 Processors

[porter44]

I'll preface this question by first saying that I haven't kept up with computer tech in the last 3 years or so. Do all the laptops that have the intel B950 processor have the same graphics chips? I was price comparing some low end laptops on best buy and 2 of the laptops with the B950 say Intel® HD for the graphics spec and one of them says UMA. I was wondering if UMA is a typo or... if it is correct what the difference is.

 

[alyarb]

They all have the same graphics hardware and they all have UMA. UMA just means the graphics hardware and CPU hardware have to share the same memory system, but that really goes without saying for integrated graphics.

 

[sm625]

It might be called UMA on one and HD on the other but its the same gpu. It is sandy bridge integrated graphics. Same performance as the HD3000 according to passmark gpu benchmark. It shows the B940 having the same score as a i5-2557M, which I know has HD3000.

Its still only half the score of an 8600GTS, which I would consider a minimum for gaming. I'm hoping that ivy bridge pentiums will score 500 on passmark gpu test.

 

[porter44]

Thanks guys

 

[markpollock]

i have my own laptop but i don'y know about intel B950 processor