In fact, the closest Intel gets is in STALKER: Clear Sky where the AMD platform is only 31% faster.

Sigh.)ДЄs you probably expected, there's not a single instance where the Intel integrated graphics provide a better gaming experience than the AMD IGP. (I knowвЂ¦ most of you have already skipped these two paragraphs and are staring at the chart. That's pretty bad if you're interested in gaming, but we do have to give Intel some credit: the last time I tried to test gaming compatibility with an Intel IGP (GMA 950), only about one third of the titles would even load properly! Okay, are your expectations set sufficiently low yet? Here we go. These four titles would crash to the desktop and nothing we tried fixed the situation. In fact, out of the 18 titles that we tested, the Intel laptop still failed to run four of them. While we're making disclaimers, we also need to mention that Intel's GMA 4500MHD failed to run quite a few games until we force DirectX 9 mode. Okay, that's not entirely true we did get a few titles to break 30 frames per second at the native 1366x768 LCD resolution, but those games where the exception rather than the rule. We loaded a variety of titles onto the laptops, and after a look at performance using medium detail settings we quickly decided that even the Radeon HD 3200 had no business running anything above minimum detail at 800ењ†00. The fact of the matter is that neither of these solutions is particularly fast when it comes to playing 3D games. These integrated graphics solutions might be the best that AMD and Intel currently offer in laptops, but don't get excited.

Before we get to the gaming results - quit looking ahead and pay attention to this paragraph! - we need to put gaming performance in perspective.

Tropico 4 on intel gma 4500