So what's the difference?
I have the opportunity to acquire a gaming laptop that will have the new Ivy Bridge Intel chip. Now, I know that the chip's graphics processing power will be considerably better than the Sandy Bridge, but how does that play into the dedicated graphics card? Is this chip going to say "Oh...I can do that MUCH better!" or "Let's share this job, OK?" and negate or otherwise automatically stifle the graphics processing power of the card? I've been looking all over and can't seem to find any definite answer for this one. Anybody have an inside scoop on this? I know that Intel has been biting at the bit for some time to get into the graphics rendering market, even to the point of shutting out GPU makers. Wouldn't surpise me if they put a command on this chip for it to render the graphics first, then hand over what's left to the dedicated card. If this is the case, it ain't good.