( Read a deeper discussion of Ivy Bridge laptop performance in general here.) We ran UT3 on the two Ivy Bridge laptops we've gotten so far (the Origin EON17-S and Asus N56V) and saw clear, significant improvements over last year's Sandy Bridge white box. Unreal Tournament III, our oldest gaming benchmark, has been discontinued in favor of Street Fighter IV and Metro 2033. The gains in Ivy Bridge's new graphics are clear, at least across our range of gaming benchmarks. Last year, Sandy Bridge's leap in integrated graphics was a story in itself, and resulted in your average mainstream laptop finally being able to run some off-the-shelf PC games, albeit at lower graphics settings. You will still have a better gaming experience with a budget graphics card, but for at least the HD 4000, Intel finally has an onboard graphics processor with some 3D processing muscle. With its new Ivy Bridge CPUs, Intel has introduced two new graphics cores, the Intel HD 4000 and a lower-end HD 2500 core. Intel then claims said chip/core will provide at least a baseline PC gaming experience. A truism of Intel chip announcements: Intel releases a new CPU, and with it a new graphics chip or, since Sandy Bridge, a new graphics core embedded in the CPU silicon.
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