Is intel UHD graphics good or trash??

[Strain Jer]

I am wondering if intel UHD graphics can play regular, casual games that don't need a boat load of graphics. I have a 8GB RAM and a 4.1GHz processor to.

[Satoru]

depends on the game. people frequently misunderstand "not photo realistic" means "not graphically intensive"

Intel UHD graphics are not taht great. You 'might' be ok for various esports games where they're optimized to run on even the jankiest hardware imaginable. But I wouldn't rely on that

also having 8GB of RAM is going to limit things as well, because your Intel card uses your RAM as its VRAM, meaning you actually only have 7.5GB of RAM because the Intel UHD will use around 512MB RAM

[🍋 Lemonfed 🍋]

depend on the chipset model itself which is usually determine by the cpu on which is it , some Intel HD chipset can actually use up to 1.8 GB of ram as Vram if the game itself don't need that much , overall it's only good for older games and in lower resolution such as 720P.

but even the most recent Intel HD are still below the performance of something like a gt 1030.

if you see a game that say to be working on a low end geforce card like a gts 450 it's has some chance of working on a Intel HD chipset , but again do some research on google or youtube just to be sure.

Intel have their own website with a list of game that should work with it , it's only ask for your cpu model and then it's know which Intel HD is on that cpu. https://gameplay.intel.com/

[Ogami]

Older games, 2D titles and E-sport stuff like LoL will be fine.
Everything remotely current gen will not.

[Supafly]

Depends on the version. Technically some integrated graphics, either Intel or AMD, can actually be better than some dedicated GPUs.

Works the same with dedicated GPUs. It depends on the games and what settings you want to play

[🍋 Lemonfed 🍋]

yeah , some Intel HD do beat gpu like the gt 710 or even gt 730.

so if you see those as requirments , there are good chance are it's also might run fine your computer.

[Strain Jer]

Originally posted by Satoru:

depends on the game. people frequently misunderstand "not photo realistic" means "not graphically intensive"

Intel UHD graphics are not taht great. You 'might' be ok for various esports games where they're optimized to run on even the jankiest hardware imaginable. But I wouldn't rely on that

also having 8GB of RAM is going to limit things as well, because your Intel card uses your RAM as its VRAM, meaning you actually only have 7.5GB of RAM because the Intel UHD will use around 512MB RAM

Yeah thanks but I'm not the guy who plays Madden NFL or Call of Duty I like the common games like hydroneer or forts or factorio games that are small but fun!👍

[Strain Jer]

Originally posted by Lemonfed:

depend on the chipset model itself which is usually determine by the cpu on which is it , some Intel HD chipset can actually use up to 1.8 GB of ram as Vram if the game itself don't need that much , overall it's only good for older games and in lower resolution such as 720P.

but even the most recent Intel HD are still below the performance of something like a gt 1030.

if you see a game that say to be working on a low end geforce card like a gts 450 it's has some chance of working on a Intel HD chipset , but again do some research on google or youtube just to be sure.

Intel have their own website with a list of game that should work with it , it's only ask for your cpu model and then it's know which Intel HD is on that cpu. https://gameplay.intel.com/

Hey thanks for the comment!👍 I like low end games that are fun but aren't gonna overload my computer.(For example hydroneer).

[The Giving One]

Always check the system requirements on the Steam store page for any game, and then you can use a site like this one to compare to what you have to see if you can play that game :

https://gpu.userbenchmark.com/

You can compare just about every bit of hardware from that site. Of course, you can always ask here if you are not sure.

[crunchyfrog]

It depends as others have said.

The fact that you're here on Steam and assuming you're wishing to play anything right up to up to date games, then yes, it IS trash. It's simply not going to keep up.

But if you have little interest in much of the modern games, like indie or mobile style games, or play games over a decade old, you may be absolutely fine. Plenty of users here do this.


But generally speaking why it's seen as trash is this - it's not only far too low spec in many cases, the problem is that they're just not supported because they're not designed for game rendering.

The result of this is that you will often find either the game you want to play lags so much as to be unplayable, or does play OK, but then will stop working completely tomorrow after an update.

So, yeah, even at best it's a bit of a crap shoot. This is also why laptops that only have those cards are cheap.

[🍋 Lemonfed 🍋]

Also In general Intel HD are heavily impacted by the speed of your system ram and if you're using a single or dual ram sticks.

[Strain Jer]

I have a 11th gen. i3 processer.

[crunchyfrog]

Originally posted by Let's game:

I have a 11th gen. i3 processer.

Doesn't make an awful lot of difference in the grand scheme of things. Or at least, it's not going to miraculously make things better.

Lemonfed meant that this can only make things WORSE on the whole. The point being that Intel graphics chipsets share RAM, and impact your CPU.

In other words, with having the problems an Intel graphics chipset has, you also have the issues that it will affect other parts of your hardware too. A double whammy of misfortune if you will.

[Iceira]

Lets be hornest here, its not a gamer Graphic card and maybe never will be, and why should it be that, then other company has take the lead on it. its like a bussiness office card only, and thats why past gen games or minimum game requirements might cover it sometimes on newer game release, they other are way to nice with you, its garbage card all the way seen from a gamers point of view.

the only things is good for is laptop with combi card so it takes care of the 2D and the real 3D card Dont waste resources on it, and that was the nicest things i could say about it.

sure someday intel might want to make a gamer card, ( then pigs can fly as we say , but thats my point here it could happend )

ask any gamer on max game performance and they can tell what intel is. ( its not a gamer card at all, if the game is new enough. )


ps.
max performance in GPU card is quality mode on the card not fastest Rendring as intel call it, and see how little intel is worth.

[ReBoot]

Originally posted by crunchyfrog:

Lemonfed meant that this can only make things WORSE on the whole. The point being that Intel graphics chipsets share RAM, and impact your CPU.

Come to think of it, investing in RAM performance will henceforth improve the overall APU performance, won't it?

[Iceira]

And win OS still works best with 16gb, so 8GB on minimum no matter how intel has performance or if game has 8gb requitrements will still be a bottleneck, and you will still hit the wall in the performance on the card in Quality mode on high-end game. ( sure poor cheep mans GPU card choise ) there is nothings to fix.