Per reports on the internet, processor manufacturer Intel has been giving information to its top sales clients that its upcoming next generation CPU, code named “Sandy Bridge” will offer a twofold performance increase with onboard graphics processing over existing Intel processors and chipsets.

Integrated graphics are notoriously awful, and anybody with serious gaming/computer has used a dedicated graphics card since the late 1990’s, but lately, reports have come around that more and more people are getting pleased with the “Intel HD” integrated graphics provided by Arrandale and Clarkdale.

As tech site Fudzilla reports, “the current Intel HD graphics inside Arrandale and Clarkdale [..] can play Call of Duty WoW at 1024×764 at an acceptable frame rate.” Still, integrated graphics are typically horrible and underpowered when compared to dedicated graphics processors.

If Intel can achieve a 2x graphics power from their integrated graphics, then certainly this would take away some graphics cards sales at the low-end of the market. Graphics giant NVIDIA and Intel have no love between them. The two have a long standing feud, and NVIDIA has been pushing for a while that their more powerful graphics cores could possibly handle some of the tasks that the applications processor would traditionally handle.

Unfortunately, Intel’s roadmap doesn’t have Sandy Bridge processors coming out until Q1 of 2011, so any interested parties will have to wait. Of course, it remains to be see if these chips are actually much more powerful or if Intel is overgeneralizing to sell chips.

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