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    Intel HD 4000 vs Intel GMA HD?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Sportfreunde, Aug 15, 2013.

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    I know both are integrated but I would only do light gaming and on lower settings. The ultrabooks I'm considering are both i5 3317U or 3337U with 4 GB ram. Would be used for basic sports games at most and photoshop.

    Just wondering which one is better or even if there is a significant difference (laptops are almost $100 different in price).
     
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    I'm 100% positive. It would cost Intel and Asus a lot more money to put a separate modified i5-3317u without the HD 4000 on the die in there and a separate old GMA chip. i series chips (first to 4th generation) have the HD 2xxx - 5xxx built right into the processor.

    Edit: some resellers seem to use "Intel GMA" to mean "Intergrated graphics" as opposed to "dedicated Graphics" (AMD or Nvidia). They don't really mean Intel GMA (Graphics Media Accelerator) 900, GMA 3650 (Found on Intel Atom Processors), or any of the other GMA's
     
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    GMA HD is from Clarkdale/Arrandale (i3-xxxm, i5-xxxm), not from Core 2 Duo lines, which sport either the GMA x4500 (45nm) or the GMA x3100(65nm)

    But yea, both are ivy bridges with HD 4K.
     
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    Word, I forgot the first i gen was like that. Thats the gen I skipped upgrading to. But "GMA" was used as old as the first Duo Core Intel, as my dad's old Dell Latitude D620 had GMA 945 with its T2600 processor
     
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