How to Get Great Gaming Performance Without a GPU

The stand-alone add-in graphics processing unit (GPU) changed the way we gamed on PCs in the late 1990s. It now carries the burden of rendering your favorite titles so your CPU can better handle other tasks, like A.I. and physics. They come standard in certain gaming desktop and laptop brands, which typically run higher in price, generate more heat, and require more power than standard non-gaming PCs. Contents Testing conditions The games But you don't have to game on a discrete GPU, though you'll see better results. There are games available today that run perfectly well on integrated graphics — GPUs that are crammed on the same die as your PC's processor (aka iGPU). This design makes them less capable than add-in GPUs in terms of raw performance, but they can still get the job done, depending on the game's system requirements and settings. Here we show you how to tune games so they're playable on integrated graphics. Our testing uses older 8th- and 6th-generation Intel CPUs, the former providing better performance than the latter. Intel's latest Gen11 graphics do an even better job in 2020, now available in Intel's 10th-generation "Ice Lake" processor family. For instance, recent benchmarks showed… Read full this story

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