Intel GMA 950 chipset

Intel have come up with another release of the 950 chipset. This graphics card is one that provide your laptop notebook with a display that is uncomparable.
For gamers, you might want to consider purchasing a laptop notebook that has an Intel GMA 950 graphics card. You will also discover that web designers, and photography designers are looking for laptop notebooks with this graphics card.

With this graphics chipset, you are provided with a pixel rate of 1.6 gigapixels per second, and a memory bandwidth of 10.9GB per second, compared to the 8.5GB per seconds of the Intel GMA 900.
Also, the Intel GMA 950 has a core frequency of 400MHz compared to the 33MHz of the GMA 900.
The new Intel GMA 950 has greatly increased 3D performance.

There was a testing between the Intel GMA 950 and the XFX GeForce 6200TC. We discovered that the XFX card only have a 32MB local memory, with a 64-bit memory for wide interface.
The XFX card is also very cheap for around $60, with a little more or less.
Certain games and benchmarks are used for testing the 3D performance:
- 3DMark05 (standard benchmark, fill rate tests, pixel shader test and vertex shader tests)
- 3DMark 2001SE, just to gauge how the system would perform with older DirectX games.
- Doom 3
- Painkiller
- Half-Life 2
- Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory (using Anthony Tan's benchmark scripts)
- Unreal Tournament 2004 Botmatch
- Flight Simulator 2004

There are two resolutions on which games are run, which are the 640x580 low detail, and 1024x768 medium detail. Games including a medium detail setting were regulated from the 1024x768 when necessary.
All the texture modes rendered by engine supports, were what were expected from a latest 3D engine, which includes support for cube map, S3TC texture compression, and different modes for texture blending. You should also be aware that the processor handles vertex shaders, therefore, how fast your CPU works, determines how fast the vextex processing runs.