Replies to post #6514 on AMD strictly moderated (AMD)

[wbmw]

Re: are you saying that some of Intel's INTEGRATED graphics is as powerful as the best of ATI and nVidia's big cards?

Of course not. I am comparing integrated graphics to integrated graphics.

[mmoy]

The marketing on integrated video is terrible as it's the
absolute cheapest option that people only want if they're
on a budget or if the computer is for someone else.

However good the performance, you're still using system RAM.
Integrated is fine for office work today (one of the monitors
on my work system uses integrated and if I added a third monitor
on my home machine, it would run off the integrated) if you're
running XP which most business folks will continue to do.

I don't have an assessment on Vista yet but my guess is that
the "experience" is better with a card that has its own memory.
Companies that make integrated video could do themselves a favor
by just adding local memory chips for integrated video - I wonder
why they don't.