Intel iGPUs, How Much Faster After 10 Years?

How much faster have Intel iGPUs become over the last 10 years? To find out I compare the iGPU gaming performance of the 12900k to the 2600K.

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[Dark.Shingo]

Playing GTA V on an Intel 3000 should be considered productivity since it performs like a Powerpoint Presentation.

[JikoMuskato]

And back then the HD3000 was called "the first iGPU that's actually usable". You can imagine how bad the previous iGPUs were.

[SmithBeatZ]

Ryzen 5600G/5700G have been my customers savior to get into Esports PC gaming. Surprised Intel finally made something decent with 12th gen.

[Defiant]

I really like the focus lately on iGPUs and their gaming performance, there is huge potential here for more powerful iGPUS combined with FSR/DLSS/XeSS to become perfectly usable options for a majority of gamers. I think we will start to see this happen over the next few years, to the point that 4k60 may not be an unreasonable expectation on them.

[eclipse]

The fact that an Igpu can run any modern 3D game at an HD resolution while holding 60 fps is impressive in my eyes. It's like having a last gen console packed in your CPU.

[haidangnguyen]

You should try some modded driver like PHDGD now, it will bump the performance a bit for ancient igpus

[Puremindgames]

The fact anything even ran on the old CPU was surprising, never mind UHD770 being 7x faster, iGPUs could barely run games that came out at the same time, which explains Half-Life 2 since it was 6 years old when the 2600K released.

[empanada]

DUDE I WAS LITERALLY HOPING YOU WOULD RELEASE SOMETHING LIKE THIS!!! In purchases my 12700k from
Newegg but I couldn’t get a GPU, so Imm relying on iGPU until I can get a decent GPU which will probably be months… 😩

[thedungeondelver]

YAY HE FINALLY DID SOMETHING WITH THE 2600K! Christmas came a little early this year! Thank you, Dawid!

[ZaneofAustin]

I think if they're not focused on making APUs competitive with graphics cards, then the industry is going to start lacking, because cpu makers know that you still need a processor, so they don't care about the performance, and they'd just as soon take your money for another part, the gpu.

[riven]

Imagine my disappointment when the video sponsor wasn't Linode.

[RuffsTV]

I've recently built a 2200g system and I'm massively impressed how capable modern on board graphics are.

[tombe]

If i remember correctly, intel never released proper drivers for anything before HD4000 for windows 8.1 and younger. An HD3000 should run considerably better on windows 7.

I remember HL2 running quite a lot better on my sandy bridge laptop i3, but i could be mistaken

[delsydsoftware]

For well over a decade (starting around 2002), trying to enable vsync on an Intel integrated GPU in OpenGL code would cause your app to crash. I had to write code that specifically looked for intel iGPUs and disable vsync to get around it. The newer iGPUs finally fixed the issue once they were moved over to the CPU package, but what an absolute shit show.

[Mrio]

Dawid is the perfect example of not subscribing to the content, but subscribing to the person.

[ganonpork]

it would be interesting to see the same done for amd igpus

[drackar]

Frankly I'm still genuinely shocked when the intel IGPU reliably plays youtube videos, let alone video games.

[ionamygdalon]

Excellent video! Would love to see the equivalent with AMD APUs :)

[Oddlot]

I still want to see a comparison to AMD's integrated offerings, at least one of the Vega 3's in the 3000G or 220E, and hopefully one of the others in the more mid tier chips

[ZombieRofl]

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