Future Integrated Graphics

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in Future Apple Hardware edited January 2014
What is the next integrated graphics chip to go in the macbooks, and how good is it going to be compared to the current and some dedicated ones?

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    zandroszandros Posts: 537member
    GMA X3000, no one knows how good it will be yet, because Intel hasn't finished the drivers, it will not be available before April 2007.
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    hmurchisonhmurchison Posts: 12,464member
    x3000 and much better. Hardware Transform and Lighting, better scaling and deinterlacing etc. Do a search here we have had some decent threads on the X3000 GMA chipset
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    x3000 and much better. Hardware Transform and Lighting, better scaling and deinterlacing etc. Do a search here we have had some decent threads on the X3000 GMA chipset



    but still it uses system ram why can't Intel give some of it own ram like NVIDIA and ATI does on some low end models
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    hmurchisonhmurchison Posts: 12,464member
    Cost



    The only reason why you need local memory is for fast access to the frame buffers. The faster main memory and the PCI bus gets the less and less we need power hungry GPU with local memory.
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    wmfwmf Posts: 1,164member
    I saw a few articles on the Inq saying that the GMA 3000 is actually benchmarking slower than the GMA 950, but since there are only a few G965 motherboards on the market it's hard to be sure if this is really a problem or not.
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    zandroszandros Posts: 537member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by wmf


    I saw a few articles on the Inq saying that the GMA 3000 is actually benchmarking slower than the GMA 950, but since there are only a few G965 motherboards on the market it's hard to be sure if this is really a problem or not.



    We know, and I'm suspecting they were using pre-release drivers without support for hardware transform and lighting, SM3.0 etc.
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    smalmsmalm Posts: 677member
    Quote:
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    I saw a few articles on the Inq saying that the GMA 3000 is actually benchmarking slower than the GMA 950



    The GMA 3000 (in the Q965) is a GMA 950 with a few enhancements.

    The GMA X3000 (G965) is a complete other GPU based on the Kyro design with all the goodies hmurchison talked about.
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    bitemymacbitemymac Posts: 1,147member
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    Originally Posted by hmurchison


    x3000 and much better. Hardware Transform and Lighting, better scaling and deinterlacing etc. Do a search here we have had some decent threads on the X3000 GMA chipset



    Well....on top of all the improvements.... HDCP compliance is a must have feature.... if not included, then would it be more than another crappy IGM?
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    wmfwmf Posts: 1,164member
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    The GMA 3000 (in the Q965) is a GMA 950 with a few enhancements.

    The GMA X3000 (G965) is a complete other GPU based on the Kyro design with all the goodies hmurchison talked about.



    Ugh, that is mo' confusing if true. Wait, this is Intel; that means it has to be true.
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    skatmanskatman Posts: 609member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by smalM


    The GMA 3000 (in the Q965) is a GMA 950 with a few enhancements.

    The GMA X3000 (G965) is a complete other GPU based on the Kyro design with all the goodies hmurchison talked about.



    Intel has been using Kyro tile technology since Intel Extreme 2 IGP.
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