Intel's GMA X3000: Giving Old IGPs a Run for the Money

[werty316]

Intel’s latest motherboard update has more detailed information on the Graphics Media Accelerator X3000. DirectX 9 features such as Pixel Shader 3 and Vertex Shader 3.0 are supported. This time around the Vertex Shader 3.0 units are hardware based instead of the software based shaders found in previous GMA900/950 and Extreme graphics cores. A hardware transform and lighting engine has also been integrated and a significant improvement over the previous software T&L engine. High dynamic range is also supported for great realism in gaming. Lastly the GMA X3000 graphics core will be clocked up to 667 MHz -- quite a bit higher than current budget ATI and NVIDIA offerings.http://img128.imageshack.us/img128/4136/01809largeintelgma950x30006bz.png Lens flare in all its goodness.

Source (http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=2837)

[Kougar]

Read that, it had me wondering how well it will compare against ATI's x1250 IGP chipset, which will be using a x700 integrated core... A little dated on the features however it's still near the x1600 in performance.