![]() Codemasters claimed that the PC is the lead platform for this title, and thankfully the PC version performs amazingly well even on relatively older PC systems. Night Raid focuses on integrated graphics performance but uses the low-level DirectX 12 API to do so.GRID: Autosport has just been released and it’s time to see how this new racer performs on the PC platform. In this test, the Iris Plus graphics solution trails the MX 150 by around 13 percentage points, and exceeds the UHD 620 IGP in the ThinkPad by 73%. That's incredibly impressive for any integrated graphics solution. It's unfortunate that we don't have any Vega 8 scores to compare to, but several results in the 3DMark database indicate that AMD's solution would score around 8000 points, so we think Intel would have won that fight, too. GRID Autosport is a cross-platform racing simulation developed by Codemasters. The developer wanted to make up for GRID 2, which released to mediocre reviews from critics and gamerse alike. Codemasters set out to improve GRID Autosport's handling and environment rendering to make it a true racing simulator. The third GRID game is built on Codemasters' EGO engine that boasts more realistic physics and damage systems to add a bit of danger and some extra realism to the racing. ![]() Codemasters also tuned its graphics engine to perform well over a wide variety of mainstream systems, which makes it a great test for systems with integrated graphics. ![]() Codemasters also promotes that GRID Autosport is "optimized for integrated Intel HD Graphics", which is certainly something. We tested at 1080p with the High image quality preset.Īgain, Iris Plus came awfully close to doubling up the performance of Intel's UHD 620 integrated graphics. ![]() We've gone from borderline-unplayable performance at 1080p to a quite smooth framerate in a generation. In fact, the Iris Plus's minimum 43 frames per second matches the average frame rate of the Ryzen 5 2500U's Vega 8 graphics, which is quite a feat. As before, the only systems which scored faster than the are those with discrete graphics solutions. Subjectively, Iris Plus's graphics performance was really solid, too. We spent some time going HAM in Fornite and Dota 2 to get a feel for how some of the most popular esports titles fared. We found that you could have maximum detail or a full 1920x1200 resolution and get playable framerates, but you couldn't really have both at once. Both of these games got the best mix of performance and visual quality out of their medium settings at 1920x1200, or by dropping the resolution to 1440x900 and cranking up the detail. Intel's new graphics architecture represents an improvement over the last, but it's not magic. GRID Autosport and Hitman (2016) Performance Over Time That's fine, but we still want to take a closer look at gaming performance. Since we're looking at a new graphics architecture, it only makes sense to see how far along the drivers are. To get a good feel for this, we sampled a couple of games we already looked at previously with this system: GRID Autosport from our tests above and the Hitman reboot from 2016, which we looked at in the preview. To dig in depth, we used frame time capture tool CapFrameX to grab 60 seconds of frame times. This isn't a comparative analysis at this point we're not concerned with which system does a better job of keeping the frame times down. We're concerned with whether Iris Plus can give us solid frame rates throughout the length of a test run.įirst we'll look at GRID Autosport, which we tested with the same 1080p resolution and High graphical settings as we had above. The benchmark runs longer than 60 seconds, but our test only grabs the first 60 seconds of the run. This particular graph comes from early in the test, from the point where the race begins, and our automated driver trails a good chunk of the pack the whole time.
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