With so much talk about GPUs and CPUs coming together, it's somewhat dissapointing to see just where we are when it comes to IGPs. Looks like a good place to start feeling what's coming, right? AMD has the X1250 and nVidia prepares it's new line of Geforce 7 based products. Intel will get the G35 chipset out next year and all of them promise real integration (call it Fusion or something else).
As if they came from a politician's mouth, these promises are to be taken with a grain of salt, because they aren't getting any closer to become true, with the likes of the G33. Yes, if the board manufacturer wants, you will get HDMI, DVI, and HDCP support. But if we discuss gaming performance, the GMA 3100 at it's core will prove to be even worse than AMD's solution. Just see the graphs for yourself.
It's painful to see a modest card like the 2600XT taking such a lead over the best of the IGP world in all the tests undertaken. Granted, they are new games, not the ones you usually expect to run on anything but a "real" graphics card, but they were played at 1024 x 768 at medium quality settings and only Sims 2 is between reach.
Link: Anandtech.
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