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unless your score exceeds
                                                Intel IGP Performance Over Generations
               12,000. The test runs at

               1920 x 1080 resolution and       in 3DMark Sky Diver Graphics (GPU score)
               uses about 1GB of graphics       2019 Ice Lake
                                                Core i7-10657 (G7)                                       9,028
               memory. The tessellation
                                                2018 Whisky Lake U
               detail is rated at a medium      Core i7-8565U (UHD 620)             4,321
               load by 3DMark. There are        2017 Kaby Lake R                   4,297
                                                Core i7-8550U (UHD 620)
               two tests run with the first
                                                2017 Kaby Lake                     4,019
               using 1.6 million vertices,      Core i5-7500U (UHD 620)
                                                2015 Skylake
               150,000 tessellation             (Core i7-6560U (Iris 540)            4,624
               patches, 3.9 million             2015 Skylake
                                                (Core i7-6200U (HD 520)         3,573
               triangles and 30.3 million
                                                2015 Broadwell              2,650
               pixels and 0.78 million          Core i5-5200U (HD 5500)
               shaders per frame.               2013 Haswell               2,151
                                                Core i5-4300 (HD 4400)
               Graphics test 2 uses 0.9
                                                                             LONGER BARS INDICATE BET TER PERFORMANCE
               million vertices, 90,000
               tessellation patches, 1.5      We looked at how Intel’s integrated graphics performance has been
                                              since 2013 and, yup, it’s a big jump.
               million triangles, 13.9
               million pixels and 2.7
               million shaders per frame.
                                                3DMark Night Raid Graphics
                   Because we wanted to
                                                Performance (GPU score)
               focus on pure graphics
               performance, our chart           SDS Core i7-1065G7 10th Gen Ice Lake
                                                U 25 Watt (4/8)                                 10,871
               shows only the graphics
                                                SDS Core i7-1065G7 10th Gen Ice Lake           9,926
               score from Sky Diver.            U 15 Watt (4/8)
                                                HP Spectre x360 13 8th Gen Core
                   But again: This is really    i7-8565U Whisky Lake U (4/8)        5,433
               to illustrate how big of a       Dell XPS 13 9380 8th Gen Core
                                                i7-8565U Whisky Lake U (4/8)        5,419
               jump this is for Intel. After
                                                Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx
               years of just phoning it in,     preview (8/8)                         6,251
               we can honestly say it’s         Huawei Matebook X Pro Core i7-                      12,396
                                                8550U/GeForce MX150 10-Watt 1D10
               looking like we won’t be         Huawei Matebook 13 Core i7-8565U/
                                                GeForce MX150 25-Watt 1D12                                14,989
               able to use those
                                                                                LONGER BARS INDICATE BET TER PERFORMANCE
               integrated graphics jokes
               for much longer.               Charlie Brown finally kicked the football!



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