With Intel’s HD 4600 you can completely max out the quality settings for DOTA2 at 1080P. We were able to use high quality options and run the game in 1080P. We were forced to drop the game’s resolution to 720P to get playable frame rates.Ĭounter-Strike: Global Offensive is also very playable on the HD 4600. In Bad Company 2 the HD 4600 also performed admirably, easily besting the HD 4000 which required all low settings.īioshock Infinite was playable on the HD 4600 in 1080P, but it was at the absolute minimum quality settings.Ĭivilizations V is definitely a bright spot for the HD 4600 which can run this game at high settings in 1080P.Ĭrysis 3 has proven itself to be a very resource intensive game even at the lowest quality settings. This is a significant improvement over the HD 4000 which produced unplayable frame-rates in this game unless you dropped the resolution down to 720P. Hopefully you’ll find our results enlightening.īattlefield 3 was playable at 1080P on Intel HD 4600. We’ll be looking at eleven games in this article slightly more than our HD 8670D review. The test system in this article is configured in exactly the same way as our system was in our original desktop Haswell review. Which is more than we can say for any of Intel graphics solutions, until now. Of course we had to use the low-quality presets more often than not, but all the same Richland enables mainstream computers to play modern games at the most commonly used resolution for PC gaming. In our review of AMD’s HD 8670D we noted that it was capable of producing playable frame-rates in AAA games at 1080P. But now that we’ve had a chance to test AMD’s just released HD 8670D, the GPU portion of the A10-6800K, and get a handle on its gaming performance, we’re going back to Intel’s HD 4600 to find the highest quality setting at which games are still playable on Intel’s desktop graphics solution. We only briefly looked at the performance of Intel’s HD 4600 graphics solution in our review of Intel’s new Core i7-4770K.

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