Jeff Atwood:
But most importantly, [Iris Pro 580] GPU performance is on par with current consoles. NUC blog measured 41 fps average in Battlefield 4 at 1080p and medium settings. Digging through old benchmarks I find plenty of pages where a Radeon 78xx or 77xx series video card, the closest analog to what's in the Xbox One and PS4, achieves a similar result in Battlefield 4…
I personally benchmarked GRID 2 at…(high detail)…1080p, I get 59 fps average, 38 min, 71 max. Checking with Notebookcheck's exhaustive benchmark database, that is closest to the AMD R7 250, a rebranded Radeon 7770.
What we have here is legitimately the first on‑die GPU…that is certainly equivalent to what's in the Xbox One and PS4 right now. This is a real first for Intel, and it probably won't be the last time, considering that on die GPU performance increases have massively outpaced CPU performance increases for the last 5 years.
Ooh boy.
Now: how long until this trickles down into the 15 W U‑series chips? And please make this available in a socketed desktop chip like in Broadwell, maybe even in the same 45 W configuration.
