Mobile CPUs will not reach the same performance as their desktop counterparts due to thermal, power, and technical limitations.
Intel Core gen 3 series or older, AMD phenom II or older and all Pentium/Celeron/Atom CPUs will not produce optimal results. Most games are playable on older Nvidia GPUs from the Fermi family (400 series) or later, but at least Pascal (1000 series) is strongly recommended.ĬPUs lacking the FMA instruction set will produce very poor results. Our recommended specifications don’t guarantee perfect performance in most games, but rather strive to provide a cost effective recommendation while still considering performance.
Windows users are recommended to run Windor newer to get the best performance. Since an integrated GPU uses system RAM as its video memory (VRAM), our memory requirement in this configuration is higher.
Recommended: Intel UHD Graphics 750 / AMD Radeon Vega 7 Minimum for Windows: Intel HD Graphics 520 / AMD Radeon Vega 3 Minimum for Linux: Intel HD 5300 / AMD Radeon R5 Graphics A dedicated GPU will produce better results on all scenarios. Integrated graphics will produce very low performance. Recommended: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 4GB / AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 8GB Minimum for Windows: NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 2GB / AMD Radeon RX 550 2GB Minimum for Linux: NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 2GB / AMD Radeon R7 240 2GB Half-float support and 4GB of VRAM are recommended.
OpenGL 4.6 or Vulkan 1.1 compatible hardware and drivers are mandatory. Recommended: Intel Core i5-10400 / AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Minimum: Intel Core i5-4430 / AMD Ryzen 3 1200 The most efficient versions are therefore suitable for passively cooled tablets, whereas faster variants are used in larger subnotebooks with active cooling.Any x86_64 CPU with support for the FMA instruction set. Some of these features are not available on all models.ĭepending on the model, the power consumption of the entire SoC is somewhere between 2 and 10 W. 2560 x 1600). Another new feature is the support for Wireless Display and Quick Sync, Intel's fast and power efficient H-264 hardware encoder. The user can connect up to two displays via HDMI 1.4 (max. The integrated video decoder supports all popular codecs such as MPEG2, H.264, VC1, VP8 and MVC and is suitable for resolutions up to 4K up to 100 Mbit/s.
Performance is not sufficient for most modern titles.Ĭompared to competing ARM SoCs, Bay Trail outperforms the Adreno 320 (which can be found in different Qualcomm SoCs like the Snapdragon 600) and offers a performance similar to the Tegra 4 GPU. That is enough power to run even the most demanding Android games smoothly in very high resolutions as of 2013. Therefore, older and less demanding Windows games like World of Warcraft or Half-Life 2 can be played fluently in very low settings. The fastest notebook models equipped with this GPU nearly match the performance of the HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge) and the AMD Radeon HD 6310. Depending on the specific model, the maximum Turbo Boost is 896 MHz or less and the memory controller can support DDR3(L), DDR3L-RS or LPDDR3 in single- or dual-channel operation. The core clock is significantly lower as well. Clock rates and shader cores, however, are considerably lower.Ĭompared to Ivy Bridge, which offers either 6 or 16 Execution Units, the HD Graphics (Bay Trail) comes with only 4 EUs. It supports DirectX 11 and is based on the Ivy Bridge GPU. The Intel HD Graphics (Bay Trail) is a low-end integrated Bay Trail graphics card found in certain Atom models ( Z3770), nettops ( J2850) and notebook SoCs ( N3510).