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intel i7-4770k integrated graphics benchmarks In the first of our Haswell review series, we covered the worst-case performance of the much-improved Intel HD Graphics by testing it at max resolution and details. However, these scenarios are not the ideal conditions for the design and Intel’s fourth Gen HDGPU runs much better at moderate settings such as 720p.

In this edition, we have tested Intel’s HD Graphics 4600 at several realistic and best case game settings with just three very popular titles, Battlefield 3, Bioshock Infinite and DIRT 3. Given Battlefield 3’s popularity, we even dive down to the individual frame level to show the level of smoothness of reported frame rates for this game with Intel and NVIDIA graphics. Battlefield 3 running on Intel HD 4600 had an acceptable frame rate but was not smooth on automatic detail settings.

Test Specifications and Methodology

The aim of this review is to show real world and near real world performance of the mid-range Intel HD Graphics 4600 GPU,code named 'GT2' built into high end desktop Haswell parts, with similar tech built into many Haswell laptops.

We have listed our benchmarks in order of relevance to real world game play.

We could have setup a replicable test case for Battlefield 3 but this does not demonstrate real-world game play for one of the most popular first person shooters.

We used an older discrete NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 GPU to demonstrate technology leaps over generations and years, as well as to show that there always will be a need for performance discrete graphics. Throwing raw power through memory bandwidth, clock speed and compute cores always wins.Even  Intel knew this when they tried to develop Larrabee for consumer graphics and demonstrated this consecutively with Ivy Bridge and Haswell's integrated graphics, by increasing the number of execution units and clock speeds.

A caveat of our approach is hardware vendors have optimised their device drivers and the game code itself for these few titles. Our previous Haswell review used a gamut of tests.

This is somewhat the point really, it is ideal to have a hardware vendor optimise for independent software vendors. The end user receives a better experience in the end but analysts must be careful of how they quantify these experiences.

Platform

3rd Gen Core ‘Ivy Bridge’

4th gen Core ‘Haswell’

CPU

Core i7-3770K (engineering sample)

Core I7-4770K (engineering sample)

CPU Cooling

Retail/Stock heat sink/Fan

Cooler Master Hyper TX3 heat pipe heat sink/fan

Mainboard

Intel DZ87KLT-75K “Kinsley” (Pre-Production)

KLZ8711D.86A.0334.2013.05.08.1817 (Pre-Production)

ASUS P8Z77-V Pro

2002 BIOS

Memory

Corsair Vengeance 2400 C10 8GB

Integrated Graphics

Intel HD Graphics 4000 with Driver 9.18.10.3071

Intel HD Graphics 4600 with Driver 9.18.10.3071

Add in Graphics

Gigabyte NVIDIA GTX460OC 1GB with GeForce Driver 314.22

Chassis

Corsair Vengeance C70 (three factory fitted fans)

Power

FSP AU-750M 750W 80GOLD

Storage

Kingston HyperX 120GB SSD

OS

Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 Patched June 2013

Display

Dell Ultra Sharp U2412M 24” LCD 1920x1200

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