HD 5000 on all the Macbooks Air

[mentaluproar]

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Mobile-Graphics-Cards-Benchmark-List.844.0.html

Looking pretty good for a casual game or two.

someone throw arkham city at this laptop. I'm wondering how it would compare to my 2011 mini with the 6630m gpu.

 

[Eidorian]

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Mobile-Graphics-Cards-Benchmark-List.844.0.html

Looking pretty good for a casual game or two.

Not that I play Battlefield 3 any more but I would hope it could run MechWarrior: Online.

 

[Michael Goff]

someone throw arkham city at this laptop. I'm wondering how it would compare to my 2011 mini with the 6630m gpu.

I can play Arkham City on my 2012 MBA without too much trouble. I put it on native resolution, pretty much everything on medium, with DirectX 11. I think this should do just fine.

 

[mentaluproar]

I was referring to the Mac version

 

[ftaok]

Why? Say 3000 was 1 unit. 4000 was 1.6 and 5000 is 1.6*1.4=2.24 or 224% of 3000 graphics power.

Wouldn't that be 124% faster, then?

 

[B...]

Wouldn't that be 124% faster, then?

It is 124% faster, but 224% of the total speed. You add 100%.

 

[ftaok]

It is 124% faster, but 224% of the total speed. You add 100%.

Yeah. I went back to the original post and the mixing of perspective confused me.

 

[mattopotamus]

My brain just exploded.

like the man on the att commercials?

 

[gman901]

I just got my new Air!! Now I need to figure out when I can set it up. They shipped these units out super fast!

 

[Mirai 11]

Surely from the benchmarks here for the 5200:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/6993/intel-iris-pro-5200-graphics-review-core-i74950hq-tested/7

It could be slightly lower performance than this?
It must be above 30FPS at least for Bioshock Infinite for the new Airs, I'd be satisfied with that.

 

[tgi]

like the man on the att commercials?

Haha yeah exactly.

 

[akdj]

only up to 1600p

Not so sure you're correct. It may be a limitation in OSx---but quoted from Notebook Check...

"The Intel HD Graphics 5000 (GT3) is a processor graphics card included in some of the ULV Haswell processors of 2013. It represents the highest configuration of the integrated graphics unit (40 execution units), but lacks the additional eDRAM cache of the Iris Pro Graphics 5200. The relatively low base clock can be automatically overclocked using Turbo Boost technology. Depending on the processor model, the base and turbo clock rates may differ, resulting in varying graphics performance between CPU models.

In comparison to the HD 4000, the graphics core has been modified extensively. The GPU supports DirectX 11.1, OpenCL 1.2 and OpenGL 4.0. It also features an improved decoder for 4K videos and the fast Quick Sync encoder."

Again---OSx, in it's current (10.8x) may limit external monitor resolution, but with Mavericks--it may allow external 4k output to an external monitor. Thunderbolt has the bandwidth, the '5000' has the grunt---and 1600p, are you determining that by using the 16:9 or 16:10 ratios of the current displays? It's a helluvan un-even number between 1080p and 2160p (4k's vertical resolution). Just curious as to how you came up with that number. We do video production, all in 1080p these days...but as the prices of 4k cameras drop...it'll make sense, soon, to shoot high-rez, even if distribution is 1080p....as we are, or will be (5 years?) provided the opportunity to 'view' 4k content in the home, once they figure out how to distribute and the compression measures used so as to not take up 200+ GB per flick

J

 

[sofakng]

Some good news on the GPU upgrade from barefeats.com (http://www.barefeats.com/mba13a.html):

Heaven 4.0 benchmark:
2012 MBA - 7.8 fps
2013 MBA - 14.4 fps

GPUtest Furmark:
2012 MBA - 12
2013 MBA - 27

Cinebench:
2012 MBA - 21.2
2013 MBA - 24.9

I've seen that lower Cinebench score elsewhere but given the other GPU tests (Heaven, Furmark) I think this will be FANTASTIC upgrade!