Intel details GPU options in Haswell, announces Iris

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cooldude94

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Intel has provided additional details about it’s upcoming fourth generation of Core processors (codenamed Haswell) specifically related to the GPU that will be running in these chips. But most importantly, they have also announced a new brand of high-end integrated mobile GPUs called Intel Iris. Intel Iris is the name of a new series of graphics processors that will be integrated into the upcoming Haswell processors. Mind you, not all integrated GPUs on the Haswell processors will be designated with the Iris name. Intel is reserving this name for only their highest performing mobile GPUs, which will be integrated into the top of the line Core i7 models.

With Iris, Intel is promising a performance boost of around two times over the current generation Ivy Bridge processors, which is quite significant. Intel also plans to compete with the NVIDIA 650M, a dedicated mobile GPU, which is quite ambitious.This doesn’t mean that the other Haswell chips won’t be getting a GPU upgrade. There are five tiers of Intel GPU for the next generation Haswell chips, denoted by the GT acronym. The GT1 levels chips will have Intel HD Graphics, GT2 will have Intel HD graphics 4600/4400/4200, GT3 (15W TDP) level chips will have Intel HD graphics 5000, GT3 (28W TDP) levels chips will have Intel Iris graphics 5100 and the top of the line GT3e chips will get the Intel Iris Pro graphics 5200 GPU. Intel is promising performance improvement over Ivy Bridge across the board, with the most improvement seen in the chips running Iris. Haswell also brings support for DirectX 11.1, OpenCL 1.2, OpenGL 4.0 and 4K x 2K support.
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This is great news presently nvidia 650m is the best card present in laptop in india if integrated graphics match its performance then manufacturers will surely put much better dedicated graphics card.
 
Harsh Pranami

Harsh Pranami

Padawan
Unbelievable. Intel onboard gpu's never even came close to any discrete gpu and now they are planning to compete with nvidia 650m, which is currently the second best mobile graphic card in india. Well if it is, then congos to intel.
 
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cooldude94

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Only Iris pro 5200 will compete with 650m.which will only be in top of the line i7 so cost will be quite high initially i suppose, but still it is a massive improvement to current generation.
 
sukesh1090

sukesh1090

Adam young
kudos for intel for such an improvement but i wanna remind them that i have only two hands and two legs.:wink:
 
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