These graphic cores have also been bestowed with dedicated video processing engines that serve up silky Blu-ray playback with even an Econobox sub-$100 CPU. AMD and Nvidia are using functional blocks ripped from their high-end GPU architectures, assuring not only broad compatibility with games, but surprisingly adequate performance. Lately, however, integrated graphics chipsets have enjoyed a renaissance. Older integrated graphics solutions simply didn’t have the graphics horsepower to run games-not just at acceptable frame rates, but at all-and they didn’t offer much in the way of video playback acceleration. At best, we only considered the IGPs of yesteryear as platforms for the next PC we’d build our mothers or corporate desktops we’d deploy to the masses of slack-jawed users in our domains. There was a time when enthusiasts had little interest in integrated graphics chipsets.
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