AMD’s GPUs take up a far greater piece of the die than Intel’s, so AMD is currently limited to quadcores (which perform in the same ballpark as Intel’s dualcores).Įven if Trinity’s GPU will be twice as fast on paper, I doubt it’d work that well in practice. Yea… trouble with AMD and faster GPUs will be that they will become increasingly CPU-limited. They’ve come a long way in recent years, and combined with their manufacturing process, Intel has the potential to offer quite competitive GPUs. I’m still waiting for the day that Intel decides to build discrete GPUs. It seems that GPGPU is a thing that Intel pulls off quite well. Which is quite a feat for Intel’s first-ever DX11 architecture.

Intel actually manages to outperform AMD’s Llano here. If Haswell can make another step like Ivy Bridge and Sandy Bridge before it, the gap with AMD may be closed altogether.īut what is most amazing is the DirectCompute performance: Since Intel has not dedicated as much silicon to the IGP as AMD has in Llano, it is not at all bad. It is still not enough to catch up to AMD’s Llano in graphics performance, but the gap has closed considerably. In games it is 20%-50% faster than Sandy Bridge, making it a viable option for low-end gaming. The performance is also a nice step up from the IGP in Sandy Bridge (which in itself was a major upgrade). Granted, they are rather late in the game, especially since AMD has already released the first DirectX 11.1 GPUs, but for Intel it’s a nice update nonetheless. And Intel has something nice in store on the graphics front as well: DirectX 11. They have also made the turbo more aggressive for even better single-threaded performance (more on that in an upcoming post). The short story is this: you get more performance at lower power consumption, for the same price.īut I am more interested in the graphics side of things. Once again, Intel has pulled off the seemingly impossible: they increased the IPC of the Core i7 series. Today we can see a preview of Intel’s upcoming Ivy Bridge at Anandtech:

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