Intel HD 4000 integrated chip vs. super low end Nvidia Geforce 610m

Based on the following it seems the GT 610M is meant to compete more against the older HD 3000 graphic core than the newer HD 4000 graphic core. It's not a full blown review comparing the GT 610m and the HD 4000 in many games, but the supporting benchmarks seems to indicate that the HD 4000 performs better when looking that the lowest graphic settings. You need to hover the mouse around "Low", "Med", etc to see exactly what resolution is being used because it's different for every game.

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-HD-Graphics-4000.69168.0.html

Anno 2070 benchmarks both and the GT 610M comes up as 28% less performance than the Intel HD 4000.

In COD: MW3 the GT 610M is 10% faster.

In BF3 the GT 610M is 24% slower.

Both are about equal in FIFA 12 with the HD 4000 being 4% faster.

In F1 2011 the GT 610M is marginally faster by 7%.

Deux Ex: HR the GT 610M is slower by 12%.

In Crysis 2 the GT 610M is slower by 24%.

Mafia 2 the GT 610M is slower by 13%.

In StarCraft 2 the Intel HD 4000 is 2% faster than the GT 630M so that means it should be faster than the GT 610M by a wide margin.

Considering that the HD 4000 is only 6% slower than the GT 630M in Metro 2033, the HD 4000 is by default faster than the GT 610M.

WoW is a tie.

Based on the above, this is probably the 1st time where I've seen a discrete graphic card being slower than an integrated graphic core. My advice is to simply by an Ivy Bridge laptop without a GT 610M to save some money. If you are sticking with the Asus K55VD, then I recommend simply uninstalling the nVidia drivers so that the GT 610M will be disabled.