In recent times, we've seen a whole load of big upticks in performance with certain games, and better overall stability from the Arc drivers too. – Intel Ivy Bridge Core i7 (2.2GHz), HD 4000, driver v8.What makes Intel's Arc Alchemist GPUs even more tempting these days is that slowly but surely, Team Blue is honing the graphics drivers to improve them substantially. Settings: 1920×1080 fullscreen, tessellation: normal, shaders: high, AA: 4X MSAA, 16X anisotropic filtering. Unigine Heaven is a Direct3D 11 and OpenGL 4 benchmark. Incredible! Ivy Bridge HD 4000 GPU is faster than the Radeon HD 5770 for high level of tessellation. Tessellation level: extreme (X64) – EVGA GeForce GTX 680, R301.24 (Win 7 64-bit) Tessellation level: extreme (X32) – EVGA GeForce GTX 680, R301.24 (Win 7 64-bit) Tessellation level: normal (X16) – EVGA GeForce GTX 680, R301.24 (Win 7 64-bit) – Intel Ivy Bridge Core i7 (2.2GHz), HD 4000, driver v8. Tessellation level: moderate (X8) – EVGA GeForce GTX 680, R301.24 (Win 7 64-bit) Settings: 1920×1080 fullscreen, map set 1, no postfx, no AA.

This is really a good start for next versions of the OpenGL 4 driver.

TessMark works like a charm with the version 2719 of Intel HD Graphics driver.

– Testbed for Ivy Bridge CPU/GPU: Gigabyte Z77ġ – TessMark: OpenGL 4 Tessellation Benchmark – Testbed for discrete graphics cards: Asus Z77 So let’s see how the HD Graphics 4000 GPU ( Ivy Bridge processor) handles the OpenGL 4 tessellation in the following tests: TessMark 0.3.0 and Unigine Heaven 2.1. It’s rather a big surprise even if it was somewhat foreseeable. The version 2729 of Intel HD Graphics driver has been released with OpenGL 4 support.

Intel 4000 graphics card