Intel HD Sucks Balls

[Charlie Clarke]

I just got a Nvidia 240GT for $15 on ebay, it is pretty old and isn't exactly high end, but for the price it was a good addition to an old core 2 duo PC.

 

The 240 Gt can average 80fps on 1080p in a fun Indie game I play called Broforce.  Check it out http://store.steampowered.com/app/274190/

 

To put that into comparison, my $2000 Asus ux31a Laptop with 8gb ram an i7 and 2gb of vram, which it doesn't need because it has intel HD, I have to run in 720p because it drops down to 10fps in intense scenes! Just bad.

[Guest MinimalEffort]

Well its not meant for gaming. Its meant to run Windows, which it does fine.

[theelitegamer]

Their must be some settings that are wrong in Intel Device Manager or something, I have an i5, 16 gb of ram and Intel HD have like 0.5 VRAM and I could run it at like 30 fps.

[Tim Drake]

The 4600 HD is pretty great to be honest

[Altecice]

so you're compairing an IGPU to a dedicated GPU and saying one sucks? NO SHIT.

[SeanBond]

I just got a Nvidia 240GT for $15 on ebay, it is pretty old and isn't exactly high end, but for the price it was a good addition to an old core 2 duo PC.

 

The 240 Gt can average 80fps on 1080p in a fun Indie game I play called Broforce.  Check it out http://store.steampowered.com/app/274190/

 

To put that into comparison, my $2000 Asus ux31a Laptop with 8gb ram an i7 and 2gb of vram, which it doesn't need because it has intel HD, I have to run in 720p because it drops down to 10fps in intense scenes! Just bad.

A dedicated gaming gpu vs a newer but Igpu that wasn't designed for gaming. And you are surprised about the results?

[Kyuubixchidori]

because its a ultrabook, its made to be light and thin, the opposite of well, gaming pcs.

[LancerBG]

what is sad is that you were on ebay shopping for a 240gt 

[Hyttech]

Well your laptop is an ultrabook, designed to be small, and not for games. Also you are running an indie game which may not be optimized. 

[SeanBond]

The 4600 HD is pretty great to be honest

Actually I second this. HD4600 is more than capable than the 7th gen consoles and Hd4600 isn't even very good compared to an a-10chip. Not all igpu's are terrible but they certaintly are not made for high res gaming. 

[TheSLSAMG]

You're comparing a thin and light Ultrabook with limited cooling to a desktop GPU. This isn't exactly fair.

[lani100]

I just got a Nvidia 240GT for $15 on ebay, it is pretty old and isn't exactly high end, but for the price it was a good addition to an old core 2 duo PC.

 

The 240 Gt can average 80fps on 1080p in a fun Indie game I play called Broforce.  Check it out http://store.steampowered.com/app/274190/

 

To put that into comparison, my $2000 Asus ux31a Laptop with 8gb ram an i7 and 2gb of vram, which it doesn't need because it has intel HD, I have to run in 720p because it drops down to 10fps in intense scenes! Just bad.

On your laptop is the charger plugged in and set to highperformance?

You have a i7u which is a ultra low voltage dual core cpu which is quite shit for gaming and is almost comparable to a core 2 duo.

You can't compare HD graphics to a low/mid end gpu.

[Tim Drake]

Actually I second this. HD4600 is more than capable than the 7th gen consoles and Hd4600 isn't even very good compared to an a-10chip. Not all igpu's are terrible but they certaintly are not made for high res gaming. 

For gaming on some games at 720p/900p until you can afford a dedicated, it does pretty damn well..

[MLGNOSCOPEHEADSHOTGETREKT]

It's made to browse google chrome not game.

Well actually a i3's HD graphics can max out League Of Legends at 60FPS

[SeanBond]

For gaming on some games at 720p/900p until you can afford a dedicated, it does pretty damn well..

Well for some games, it can chug on triple a games. Even at low 720p. I remember when I was swapping my 780 out I used it for a week and played arkham city all week, medium settings 900p and averaged around 40fps 

[Charlie Clarke]

Their must be some settings that are wrong in Intel Device Manager or something, I have an i5, 16 gb of ram and Intel HD have like 0.5 VRAM and I could run it at like 30 fps.

Yeah but when it starts exploding and stuff it drops to 10fps

[Charlie Clarke]

On your laptop is the charger plugged in and set to highperformance?

You have a i7u which is a ultra low voltage dual core cpu which is quite shit for gaming and is almost comparable to a core 2 duo.

You can't compare HD graphics to a low/mid end gpu.

Yeah and  I fiddled with the intel control pannel, but it is a 3 year old laptop so it doesnt have the latest chip, my dell latitude I have for school has an i5 and 4gb ram, it manages 1080p alot better

[Mo5]

As someone with a N2840 I second this

[Blebekblebek]

I think it's because it's on laptop

 

laptop doesn't have option to set fixed memory amount to shared it for GPU, it use dynamic shared ram which most games didn't use (or didn't do it right)

they just flat out use the first amount it use (which somewhere between 32-64MB), well any gpu with this amount of RAM would be sucks.

you can google this problem

 

and also problems often happens on dual gpu laptop, which won't switch to 2nd gpu.

[FloRolf]

yeah my 8600gts also rips my HD3000 apart really bad. You can see it in my 8600gts review in my sig.

and the card is 8years old lol

[Charlie Clarke]

what is sad is that you were on ebay shopping for a 240gt 

I was just looking for something cheap for my old pc

[Ostwind]

I just got a Nvidia 240GT for $15 on ebay, it is pretty old and isn't exactly high end, but for the price it was a good addition to an old core 2 duo PC.

 

The 240 Gt can average 80fps on 1080p in a fun Indie game I play called Broforce.  Check it out http://store.steampowered.com/app/274190/

 

To put that into comparison, my $2000 Asus ux31a Laptop with 8gb ram an i7 and 2gb of vram, which it doesn't need because it has intel HD, I have to run in 720p because it drops down to 10fps in intense scenes! Just bad.

That 2GB of VRAM is just system RAM that is dedicated to the iGPU which seems a bit excessive for an Intel iGPU, you should see if you can get into the bios and drop it down to one gig at the most.

 

That being said your assertion that Intel HD is shit is incorrect, the multitude of videos on Youtube showing various Intel HD sku's playing games serves to prove it wrong. While it is far from idea it is usable and more capable than most people think. That being said it's not too hard for a dedicated GPU to be better than an iGPU on the intel side, Intel has tons of experience making GPU's but not Gaming GPU's and thus their hardware is not properly suited to running things like games. In addition to that drivers are another significant part of the picture. No matter how good a piece of hardware is poor drivers have the capability to render it useless. Intel iGPU's are no exception and they do suffer from infrequent driver updates.

 

 

Proof

 

 

 

[Mew]

Yeah but when it starts exploding and stuff it drops to 10fps

So you're comparing the averages of the dgpu to the minimums of an igpu.