This is one reason why on-board graphics can’t run high or ultra profiles. Unlike discrete GPUs, integrated graphics don’t have any dedicated graphics memory and share the system RAM. This is the integrated GPU found in the Ryzen 5 2400G CPU. The high performance of the Radeon Vega 11 surprised me because AMD OpenGL drivers on Windows aren’t great. At $180 Apple TV 4K is the best bang for buck system, without question. The performance of the A10X would probably equal HD 620 if it was not capped at 30 FPS. The A10X sits between Intel Integrated HD graphics HD 620 and 630 found in 9th generation Kaby lake Core i5 and Core i7 CPUs. Seeing Apple mobile GPUs in the top 20 shows how much mobile CPUs have progressed the past few years (and how Intel CPUs have not). The Apple TV 4K and iPad Pro 2018 use the A10X chip. This is the standard Intel Integrated graphics found on most Core i5 and Core i7 laptop and desktop systems that cost between $500 and $800. There is not much difference between systems in the 30 to 40 FPS range. Slicing the benchmarks data for the 1080 resolution, basic profile in Jupyter notebook gives the following plot:

So what should one look out for, and which integrated graphics chip performs the best? That pretty much confirms what I said in my buyer’s guide post last week about not expecting GeForce RTX real-time ray tracing to be utilized anytime soon - so don’t over spend on RTX 20xx when GTX 1660 will suffice, by a large margin, if you’re one of the almost none who cares about graphics in the first place of course.įor the 90%, there’s still a minimum spec at which low graphics performance can hamper one’s ability to use the platform satisfactorily. Artists get their lower than AAA polygon budgets, and we stay with simpler shaders, and Zwifters get their sweat on.

For Zwift its nearly entirely Intel integrated graphics and mobile GPUs. We optimize for the 90% rather than the 10%. Zwift is tailored to lower end hardware, and we’re not shooting for Crysis 3 level graphics because almost none of our users a) care and b) have a machine that can render 100+ riders ontop of a very detailed world. In response to a question about the Zwift graphics engine choices on Reddit, October 30th 2019, game creator John Mayfield had this to say:

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