Here is their graphics hierarchy chart, which includes dedicated and integrated cards. That said, Tom's Hardware, in my humble opinion, has the best information available on what you can expect from your hardware and what will be the best value in multiple dollar ranges and workloads.

The most important factor to answering your question is 'What do you want to use it for?' Since you don't indicate whether you are simply browsing web pages, editing video, or playing the most demanding video games, it is nearly impossible to tell you what you will gain in terms of performance. It's a lot like choosing a car a Porche Boxster 911 is a blazing sports car, but extreme overkill to pick up the groceries, just like a Honda Civic is an economical car but wouldn't stand a chance in an uphill race against the former. The real question to ask is what is the driving force of your decision to get a new dedicated card? Is it gaming, gfx editing, 3D rending, or just for some slight system performance increase?Īnswering that will help to push in the right direction of which brand/model/etc is a better option for you. It should give some clarity as to why comparing them isn't as simple as some benchmark testing (though benchmarks can be a good visual indicator). The more apparent hardware at your disposal is not always analogous to a better/faster machine, this is also due to how the hardware works, but also how the drivers of the individual cards work. Intel cards) because of how they work at a hardware level (CUDE cores vs. A dedicated card will take over that extra processing (and in some cases even allow you to use it as a second CPU), immediately gaining performance for your system (even if marginal).Ĭomparing the different brands of cards is also a little more complicated (i.e. Anything that offloads onto the system has an immediate performance hit since you are having to take away resources from the system that could be used instead to process other information (like parsing a web site or calculating the bullets trajectory in your 3D FPS). An integrated gfx card uses the same RAM and sometimes can even offload some of the gfx processing onto the CPU.

Comparing an integrated gfx card (any brand/kind) is a little more complicated than simply looking at some benchmarks.

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