


In our desktop Clarkdale coverage, we compared 3DMark performance using the Performance preset, if only to keep the results relevant to the discrete platforms used to prevent a graphics bottleneck. Here, though, we step back to the Entry preset in the interest of generating more meaningful numbers. Given the Overall and GPU results, it’s clear that HD Graphics are more effective than the GM45’s GMA 4500MHD controller.
The biggest performance boost comes from the 32nm host processor, which almost doubles the performance of Intel’s Penryn-based Core 2 Duo P8700 in the physics- and AI-oriented processor tests.

We’re not going to spend a ton of time talking about gaming. After all, you’re going to be fairly limited in the number of titles that will run well on an integrated graphics core—even if it has been pulled into the CPU package.
But a quick jaunt around Dalaran in World of Warcraft shows us that frame rates do exceed anything that was possible on a Montevina-based notebook. With that said, dropping detail settings to Low and the resolution to 1024x768 is not a recipe for pretty visuals. When it comes to mobile computing, you’ll have to make a critical decision. Sacrifice battery life and invest in discrete graphics or settle for an integrated GPU and give up 3D gaming.
- Introduction
- The Arrandale Lineup: Something For (Almost) Everyone
- On-Package Graphics: Arrandale Versus Clarkdale
- Mobile Chipsets, Refreshed
- Asus' K42F Calpella-Based Notebook
- Test Setups And Software
- Benchmark Results: Synthetics
- Benchmark Results: Gaming And 3DMark Vantage
- Benchmark Results: Media/Transcoding Apps
- Benchmark Results: Productivity
- Power Consumption
- MobileMark 2007
- Conclusion
Performance is good but I'm hoping for a viable update to the CULV offerings of yesterday.
Keep it up intel. I do hope that AMD will release some new chips that will be able to compete with intel offerings.
That chops them completely out of the mobile graphics market for the masses ... Intel will pay the RIGHT OEM's some "adjustment" just to make sure their "Strategy" is right to ensure AMD's mobile market is thin and restricted to the backwaters of Bejjing.
Have a look at Page 8, where HD Graphics is compared to the previous-generation GMA in Vantage and WoW. You're not going to get much else out of this, to be honest...
Also the integrated graphics can barely match the 9400m that is 1-2 years old.
The battery life is the same or worse...
What is so great about this chip?
Personally I'm not at all impressed and find it a step side ways or even backwards.
The integrated graphics do suck, but at least now we have a choice in some laptops where we can switch from the integrated to dedicated, saving battery life when needed and boosting performance where needed. It adds flexibility basically, I'm sure Intel was aiming more for that rather than performance in 3D games.
What I really want to see is the ULV versions of this chip. I'm hoping whenever they start coming out, it'll push down the prices of older Ultra-Portable laptops around the 12-14" sizes. Certain ones with the C2D SU7300 and 4GB of RAM can be found for around $550 today. If these prices go down far enough, netbookks will be obsolete in my mind.
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