Comparing Common Integrated Graphics Chips

Naah, in terms of hardware, nothing can compare to the 8 stream processors (and 128 programmable vertex units) of the x3100.

 

lol the x1250 pwned the x3100, in ALL the tests and benchmarks, xcept for company of heros, the x1270 is a much better version of the x1250 something like the nvidia6100 and the 6150. + it isnt expected anyway to have a gaming chance in hell for both the intel and the ati IGP, the differences in a few games are like 1fps LOL. but the ATI does the best job if ever. WOW, ima try company of heros. although i never really intended to, my desktop does all my gaming ^^

 

That was because the x3100 was tested in Vista, which did not have driver support for most of the x3100 hardware features. In XP, the x3100 is most likely a better option than the x1270.

 

Sorry for the bump, but I figured its better to bump an old thread rather than start a new one. And the 'official' X3100 thread seems to have been closed.

Anyway, Radeon x1200 vs GMA X3100?

What would you go for and why? Benchmarks I've seen seem to indicate that whilst the Intel driver team have optimized the X3100 for 3DMark, those optimizations have not found their way into any games with the Radeon chip performing better in real world applications.

However, I know that the X3100 has seen some driver updates since most of those tests so has performance increased at all or are Intel still dragging their heels on driver support for their IGP?

(FYI, I'm currently looking at two laptops
Turion 64 x2 1.9ghz with a X1200
Intel C2D 1.66ghz with a X3100)

btw: I don't intend to be doing any 'heavy' gaming, I'm thinking RTS/Turn-based/economic management type stuff. I use my Xbox 360 for all my FPS/Driving/Action needs.

 

@sionyboy, for the gaming with IGP i suggest an X1270, which is slightly better than the x1200, + ive had lots of experience.

you can play world in conflict in medium and low, you can actually play on high but thats trading framerates and the gameplay will slow down.

ive played company of heroes but only on low. im into RTS alot.

sins of a solar empire runs great on high and no probs whatsoever.

dont think of getting the x3100 at all since the drivers do suck as confirmed by other people, and your probably be going to use Vista and not roll back to XP, since all laptops come with vista now, except dell probably

 

Kind of an OT question but...

How is the gaming performance of the 690G desktop boards?
Specifically games like:
Tiger Woods 08
GTA San Andreas
Myst V

Also how would this board work with DVD as an HTPC?

thanks

 

I am gonna correct some of this ok??

The X3000/X3100/X3500 has
-8 Execution Units(EUs), also referred as cores

The "128 programmable vertex units" info is unfortunately, wrong. Intel had a presentation where they say "Up to 128 Execution Units", which really means that the basic architecture itself will scale to 128 EUs eventually with market segmentation and future variants with more advanced process technology. It DOES NOT mean that the current version has 128 EUs. Another site has got that confused too.

You know what's weird?? On the desktop, the X3000 users generally report that Vista is a better option. Perhaps enough frequency/memory/CPU difference makes the experience on Vista worth it with desktop and not worth it with XP. True, for the X3100 it seems that XP is the way to go.