Intel details HD5000, Iris, and Iris Pro graphics options on Haswell

[nobodynose]

Intel claims the new chipsets offer up to three times the performance of HD4000.

http://www.electronista.com/article...r.up.to.three.times.the.performance.of.hd4000

 

[tonymacx86]

Here's a great little table from the Intel spec sheet (Embargo lifted May 1st) courtesy of techreport:



Source: http://techreport.com/news/24749/intel-dubs-haswell-igp-iris-promises-2-3x-performance-increase

According to the article, they're also going to be using embedded DRAM on desktop boards to increase the graphics performance of Iris Pro options.

 

[tonymacx86]

Another article about this- from 9to5Mac:

Haswell Graphics Performance Makes Retina MacBook Air a Possibility but not a Certainty
http://9to5mac.com/2013/05/02/haswe...retina-mba-a-possibility-but-not-a-certainty/

 

[Obvious Answer Man]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haswell_(microarchitecture)

 

[shibirian]

According to the article, they're also going to be using embedded DRAM on desktop boards to increase the graphics performance of Iris Pro options.

Let's see how much of that transfer into real-world performance. ;p

Apart from that, AMDs APUs look vastly superior, even in concept to this. Their next-gen processors support GDDR5 as regular RAM, which should vastly improve performance; I guess that's the reason Intel tries to counter the concept with embedded DRAM...which, I think, is not so good, because slotted GDDR5 sound much more interesting...

Second generation of Haswell will need to have to beat that, or maybe Apple will switch over (finally); the better CPU+GPU die is the kinda thing to have for MacBooks, MacMini, etc..

So the future times look really interesting, don't they?

 

[toleda]

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lol. 75 times a decimal is still a small number. After 6 years, Intel still can't beat a GT 240.