Intel Ice Lake Update Shows Strong Retail PC Performance, Gen 11 Graphics Faster Than AMD | HotHardware People have been waiting for this chip for about five years while, instead, Intel has put out their 14nm+++++++ and delayed its release, right up until AMD started cutting deep into their margins. Intel is infamous for their "Good Enough" attitude and their really bad integrated graphics, but they've been working on their graphics now for several years, and this is their "Good Enough" solution, which in DOTA had 85% faster frame rates than AMD. DOTA is THE most popular game online and THE most demanding of any computer you care to throw at it that costs less than a used car. Personally, I couldn't care less about the game, but it is one of the modern benchmarks for seeing how tough your computer is. Using 25 watts, Intel came out with a chip that is significantly faster than AMD's, roughly 20% faster and more efficient. Everybody laughed when Intel said they were entering the discrete gpu market, but they are the 800lb gorilla that can throw enormous sums of money at anything and watch all their problems vanish overnight, because they already own patents on 80% of all the technology. This chip merely hints at things to come, and Intel is shooting for a 5 watt chip, while discrete graphics cards should come out next year that will blow your mind. They will use the same architecture, because they are all using scalar architectures now, and what comes next will be the first real new PC architecture in 15 years, that shows how to combine the cpu, gpu, ram, and everything into one neat package that kicks ass. Crunches numbers every which way imaginable, using the least energy possible, with the cheapest chips stacked all right on top of each other.
