Intel integrated graphics chips have never been known for being excellent performers. Sure, they are good enough to surf the web, but not much beyond that. That makes them good for low cost machines that simply work, which makes them great for family members who need reliabile machines. Bit-Tech has posted an article on the Intel GMA HD Graphics Performance.

If you’re serious about your movie watching you’ll be more pleased that the HD-audio passthrough now works, you can get your picture-in-picture and deep colour resolutions, and when you’re not using it, the idle power use of the Core i5-661 and Core i3-530 is very low.

Likewise, Anandtech has posted an article called the Intel Core i3 530 Review. They too are looking at the graphics performance on the new Intel integrated graphics. From the article:

So the theory is that these graphics cores are easily overclockable. I fired up our testbed and adjusted the GPU clock. It’s a single BIOS option and without any changes to voltage or cooling I managed to get our Core i3 530’s GPU running at 1200MHz. That’s a 64% overclock!

That 64% overclock yielded a 52% increase in performance in World of Warcraft. That is not saying too much, as performance went from 12.5 frames per second up to 19 frames per second.

via Bit-Tech : Intel GMA HD Graphics: Is It Any Good?

via Anandtech : Overclocking Intel’s HD Graphics – It Works…Very Well

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