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Core i7-4770K: Haswell's Performance, Previewed (tomshardware.com)
14 points by polskibus on March 18, 2013 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



~10% general computing improvement is great, but I wasn't impressed by the progress made with Intel's new GT2 graphics architecture.

An incremental improvement to HD 4000 doesn't replace mid-range mobile graphics cards at all.

Considering that GT3 will only be available mostly in the quad-core configuration, this means mid-range laptops will still require power hungry graphics cards to run games reasonably.


This was clearly not a very well functioning sample system. It's no surprise that the GPU results look unimpressive if memory bandwidth drops by 20%. But also you can't expect miracles -- HD4600 appears to only have a 25% increase in the silicon budget over HD4000.

(I am a bit bummed that the earlier rumors of GT3 being mobile only appear to really be true.)




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