INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Tablet gaming has always been faintly frowned upon by gamers from all walks of life
PC and console gamers are quick to put it in a box with mobile gaming, citing lacklustre graphics and a toxic dependency on
stir up animosity between those two camps, though
So, we went ahead and tried actually playing a game on it
Before long, we were testing out half of our Steam library on this dinky little sliver of technology.(Image credit: Future)Tablet graphics
GeForce MX series), the vast majority get along with integrated graphics baked into the processor
though, integrated graphics are rarely sufficient
Desktop CPUs have made leaps forward in recent years, with the new Ryzen 5 3400G processor from AMD using Radeon RX Vega 11 graphics to
earlier in 2019, and it brought with it the usual slew of minor performance improvements
The first couple of games we tested (Shadow of the Tomb Raider and Ghost Recon: Wildlands) bring back relatively conservative figures at
rendered on an RTX 2080 Ti
Even the scuffles of Overwatch played reasonably well at lower settings.Looking at raw performance data, Iris Plus more than doubles the
Control was a stuttering mess at 1080p on Low settings, and The Outer Worlds was better but prone to choking during busy skirmishes
CPU-bound games; not all genres were created equal in the eyes of Iris, with large-scale RTS titles like Total War: Warhammer II really
model we were using only had a 256GB M.2 drive, so we had to uninstall games before we could download and try out more
That SSD is a double-edged sword, though, as the M.2 NVMe meant that any load times in games were speedy as hell.Now, we know some people
arriving on mobile operating systems (like Fortnite, for example), Intel-equipped tablets will be capable of keeping up with laptops
As mobile gaming is further legitimised by big developers bringing their IPs to iOS and Android, the potential for powerful gaming in
solely on Iris Plus graphics would be cheaper, quieter and more power-efficient than their discrete-GPU counterparts
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