SlickR12345
Senior member
Maybe you should sharpen your reading comprehension skills. The iGPU is designed for ultrabooks and super small form factors (such as the Brix Pro), AIOs, and portable ultrabooks. They were never meant to replace desktop GPUs. At some point, iGPUs will converge will mobile dGPUs because the pace of progress with iGPU is far faster than that of mobile dGPUs. But if you feel you can throw a GTX 780ti into a Brix Pro within the same size constraints as the Iris Pro die size contained within, well okay if you say so. You're just oblivious to the bigger picture for which the iGPU is designed. It was designed at the suggestion of Apple for their mobile macbooks, that is why intel invested into the iGPU originally. And they've made significant strides with their mobile graphics performance, in fact they have the fastest mobile graphics performance at this time. The fact that Iris Pro as a mobile form factor is trading blows with a desktop level 7850k? Mobile chip versus desktop chip, roughly same performance, trading blows. What does that imply in terms of how well intel is progressing in graphics performance?
But if you live in the desktop only world where AIOs, SFF, ultrabooks, macbooks, and mac mini/brix pro devices don't exist, yeah, a dGPU is obviously better. Thanks for reminding us again, no one said otherwise. But good luck fitting your dGPU into a mac mini or Brix Pro inside of that size constraint. That's why intel designed the iGPU. They didn't design it for your 3 foot tall ATX case, even though some SKUs have it for free. It was designed for mobile at the suggestion of Apple, and apple was willing to pay the big bucks for integrated graphics that did not compromise CPU performance or performance per watt.
This is completely beside the point that most people buying macbooks and ultrabooks aren't gamers at all. It's neat that you view everything and anything through the lens of gaming. I assure you, the bigger market for mobile macbooks and ultrabooks aren't 100% gamers that expect to play crysis 3 at 1080p/60 fps. And they aren't 100% desktop users.
Everything you wrote is basically a lie. Plus mac something what? I've never heard of mac hardware here is Europe, perhaps that is state only company that sells in several US states?
But Igpu's are low value even with laptops, again, good for 2 year old games at med to high mixed settings, but if you want to run newer games at resolutions above 1024x you need a descrete GPU.
The only good thing about them is they will be forcing low-upper end graphics to be cheaper at $150, like we may see R270x at $150 type performance since the discrete $100 will need to be more price-performance competitive!