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the onboard gpu for intel

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the new 2nd gen process have their own GPUs. well does this mean I can run my primary gtx 460 AND use the embed GPU in the core for stuff like physics card?
 
Physx is Nvidia specific. If you used the onboard gpu to do your main graphics then the 460 would be physx. But that would be counter productive and probably wouldn't work. So the answer is no. It wouldn't work either way.
 
i lol-ed at myslef for asking this question lol

but seriously so the onboard gpu is just there doing nothing...mostlikely?
 
Correct, it's not doing anything. Even if you could somehow use it for Physx, you wouldn't want to as it's not powerful enough. It may be Intel's best IGP to date, but it's still an IGP and performs like one.
 
i though if you used on board video you could not use a dedicated GPU
 
RamonGTP said:
Correct, it's not doing anything. Even if you could somehow use it for Physx, you wouldn't want to as it's not powerful enough. It may be Intel's best IGP to date, but it's still an IGP and performs like one.
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Let's see...considering that IGP performance (all of them) is better than it has been, that's NOT necessarily a Bad Thing.

While IGP performance is not going to take on the high end GPUs of today, that has never been what the IGP market has been about. Integrated graphics (for both portable and desktop computing) is, by design, aimed at the floor (minimum, not maximum).

In fact, look at the IGP players aside from Sandy Bridge - all of them support at least OpenGL 2.0 ES today (non-Windows OSes except for OS X) and DX10. (By the way, that includes the IGP two generations ago out of Intel - G41.)

That means that, once and for all, starting with LGA775, there is no reason to settle for XP-level performance at even the CSM or entry-level portable-computing level.
 
PGHammer said:
Let's see...considering that IGP performance (all of them) is better than it has been, that's NOT necessarily a Bad Thing.

While IGP performance is not going to take on the high end GPUs of today, that has never been what the IGP market has been about. Integrated graphics (for both portable and desktop computing) is, by design, aimed at the floor (minimum, not maximum).

In fact, look at the IGP players aside from Sandy Bridge - all of them support at least OpenGL 2.0 ES today (non-Windows OSes except for OS X) and DX10. (By the way, that includes the IGP two generations ago out of Intel - G41.)

That means that, once and for all, starting with LGA775, there is no reason to settle for XP-level performance at even the CSM or entry-level portable-computing level.
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Lets see... What exactly is your point here?

I said SB IGP is intels Best you said "better than it has been" I said "it's still an IGP and performs like one" you said "IGP performance is not going to take on the high end gpu's of today"

When did I say it's "bad"? or that it doesn't support OpenGL?

What exactly is it that you're disagreeing with?
 
RamonGTP said:
Lets see... What exactly is your point here?

I said SB IGP is intels Best you said "better than it has been" I said "it's still an IGP and performs like one" you said "IGP performance is not going to take on the high end gpu's of today"

When did I say it's "bad"? or that it doesn't support OpenGL?

What exactly is it that you're disagreeing with?
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Until recently (in fact, with G31) onboard/integrated graphics performance, to put it bluntly, stunk, and stunk even worse on desktops than in portables (laptops and notebooks). Therefore, except for that aforementioned portable category, there was a deliberate migration away from the onboard/integrated-graphics sector.

Therefore, unless you have been looking at portable computing, you likely have not been observing the changes taking place in that category.

Therefore, my comment was not aimed at you, but at those that think that IGP performance is as smelly as it was back in the pre-LGA775 period.
 
The on die GPU does do one thing better then any discrete (as far as I know) and that is video transcoding. So it isn't completely useless even if you have a discrete, of course there is no way to leverage this yet on market, but might be soon.
 
limitedaccess said:
The on die GPU does do one thing better then any discrete (as far as I know) and that is video transcoding. So it isn't completely useless even if you have a discrete, of course there is no way to leverage this yet on market, but might be soon.
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Except the encoding comes at the cost of quality. While it's much better quality then an encode on nVidia hardware, CPU encoding still offers superior video quality.
 
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