A broad look at Broadwell
Intel on Monday expanded its Broadwell lineup with 10 new mobile and desktop parts sporting Iris Pro 6200 graphics, marking the first time that Iris Pro has been available in a socketable LGA package. That in and of itself is interesting, though so is Intel's roadmap for Broadwell, an architecture that many felt was best suited for mobile. This is one of the things our own Jimmy Thang got a chance to ask Intel principal engineer François Piednoel at Computex.
The response was a bit dodgy -- Piednoel didn't really touch on the philosophy behind taking a mobile part and tuning it for the desktop, though he did jump right into a discussion on graphics performance.
How does it compare to AMD's recently unveiled Carrizo APU? Basically we'll have to wait and see. As far as Intel is concerned, it has the fastest integrated graphics available on the market today.
Compared to Haswell, the integrated graphics in Intel's new Broadwell chips is pretty significant. That said, Intel is keeping things in perspective and says it's not aiming to ever replace discrete graphics options with its integrated offerings, at least not in the high end market. For mainstream customers, Iris Pro could negate the need to go with a discrete GPU.
Find out more of what Piednoel had to say below:
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