We used a variety of hardware to perform this test. How far has Intel come? And how far does it have left to go? The hardware To find out what this means for real-world performance, we rounded up ten different versions of Intel HD graphics spanning five generations listed from oldest to newest: HD 4000, 4200, 4600, 5500, 6000, HD 520, HD 530, HD 540, HD 620, and UHD 620.

Over the past six years, laptops have leaped from a typical resolution of 1,024 x 768 to 1080p - and premium models even push 4K. But these impressive gains have occurred in the face of more demanding games and ever increasing display resolution. Each new generation of Core brings a much bigger boost in graphics performance than per-core processor performance. Six years later, Intel’s crusade for improved integrated graphics continues. When the first Intel HD Graphics showed up in 2010 alongside the new Core mobile chips, it more than doubled performance over the preceding Intel Graphics Media Accelerator. The company also made a pledge to take graphics performance seriously, and it made good on that promise. Intel’s introduction of the first modern Core processor in 2008 was a major change in direction, and not just because of its break away from the Netburst architecture which powered Pentium 4.

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