Couple of articles have stated that the driver would be released within the first week of April. Just wondering, where's our update?
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So where's the intel HD 4000 10% performance increase driver?
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It has been released, you can download it here: https://downloadcenter.intel.com
Of course its a Windows driver, but nobody was claiming anything else, right? 😀
Of course its a Windows driver, but nobody was claiming anything else, right? 😀
Also not only does the new driver improves performance but also improvement in the overall power consumption.
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Great improvement?
The press releases talked of up to 10%.
Nvidia and AMD frequently talk of up to 30-50% with new drivers and they bring those new drivers way more frequently.
Considering that Intel's drivers are considered sub par, one could expect higher "up to" claims.
I doubt it will just affect anything with Apple. The drivers aren't really the same and at least for the HD 3000 the OSX Version was already more than 10% faster.
The press releases talked of up to 10%.
Nvidia and AMD frequently talk of up to 30-50% with new drivers and they bring those new drivers way more frequently.
Considering that Intel's drivers are considered sub par, one could expect higher "up to" claims.
I doubt it will just affect anything with Apple. The drivers aren't really the same and at least for the HD 3000 the OSX Version was already more than 10% faster.
Well, they do it in tandem as far as I know, but the bulk part is indeed written by Apple. Most of functionality of windows drivers revolves around gaming performance, something Apple drivers usually lack (although, 10.8.3 was a big step in the right direction). Still waiting for Opengl 4.3 (or at least 4.1) though 🙂