Intel HD Graphics 4000 is as good as a 48 shader Nvidia card?

[lebob23]

According to various benchmarks and some games it gets the same performance as my 240m. So Intel shaders are extremely efficient? 16 = 48, if it had as many shaders as a GTX 680 it would get 14,000 in 3dmark11, and yes I understand that it would be impossible to stick that many shaders on a cpu but they could just make it a dual cpu socket motherboard and make one cpu a insanely powerful gpu.

Intel HD Graphics 4000 - Notebookcheck.net Tech

NVIDIA GeForce GT 240M - Notebookcheck.net Tech

[awakeN]

That's Ivy Bridge for you.

That means it can run Skyrim at medium o.o because my 9400M can run it at medium 1280x800

[lebob23]

That's Ivy Bridge for you.

That means it can run Skyrim at medium o.o because my 9400M can run it at medium 1280x800

actually I think has around triple the performance of a 9400m

[R3d]

It's probably as good as a 96 shader nvidia card (525m). But clocks and memory are different so you can't just say 16 intel shaders = x nvidia shaders.

[seasalt29]

What about driver support and image quality (2D and 3D)? How do they compare in this respect?

[Greg]

It's probably as good as a 96 shader nvidia card (525m). But clocks and memory are different so you can't just say 16 intel shaders = x nvidia shaders.

The architectures are so drastically different there is really no way to compare Intel shaders against nVidia shaders. Same thing when trying to compare AMD shaders against them.

All you can really conclude based off of shader count is how two cards in the same generation from the same company compare.

[Generic User #2]

^even that is pretty flaky depending on how the memory bus scales.

at the end of the day, figure out what games you ACTUALLY PLAY and pick the graphics solution that works best in those games.

[Cloudfire]

Greg is right. Even Nvidia`s own shaders are tricky to compare between generations, like Fermi vs Kepler.

[Tsunade_Hime]

I think initial benchmarks of HD 4000 was around 550v/5650 Mobility performance which is drastically better than HD 3000 (around 8600M GT mark).

[HTWingNut]

I will bench my i7-3610QM when I get it for HD 4000 performance. Granted the GPU has max speed of 1.1GHz vs 1.25GHz of the i7-3720QM but that shouldn't matter much I think. I'm also hoping to be able to boost RAM speeds up to at least 2000 if I can find the right RAM and check IGP performance there.