Intel 10nm Ice Lake Benchmarks: 10th Gen Core i7 Performance Explored
Intel 10nm Ice Lake Processors - More Graphics And Game Benchmarks
The Iris Plus Graphics integrated into the Intel Core i7-1065G7 supports variable rate shading. Variable Rate Shading offers developers finer-grained control of shading rates in any given scene. Areas that are not in focus or obscured in a scene, for example, could be rendered with lower quality levels, freeing up GPU resources and ultimately increasing performance. 3DMark recently added a VRS feature test, which we ran on the Ice Lake-based system...
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If you look at the lanterns in the background and some of the finer details in the periphery of the screen-captures from 3DMark's VRS test above, you'll see how enabling variable rate shading in this test affects the image quality. We should note, however, that when the scene is in motion, picking up on the differences in real-time is far more difficult, which is kind of the whole point of VRS.
The performance impact of VRS, however, is much more stark. With VRS enabled, both Ice Lake / Iris Plus configurations showed a 40% improvement in frame rate.
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We also ran some high-resolution game tests with Middle Earth: Shadow Of War, Strange Brigade, and Hitman. All of the games were run at 1080p with Medium details, in an effort to achieve somewhat playable framerates on the processors' low-power integrated graphics solutions...


