Acer Swift 5 Pro’s integrated Intel GPU is up to 97% faster than its dedicated NVIDIA GPU

Integrated graphics, in the past, have never been something to write home about. They were usually a laughing stock and were only useful for web-browsing and playing videos and movies. Nowadays though, new iGPU technologies have been able to perform better than certain discrete graphics cards. Such was the case with the new Tiger Lake Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7, which is included with the Acer Swift 5 Pro’s Intel Core i7-1165G7 and its discreet GPU – the NVIDIA GeForce MX350. We will leave our full review of the Acer Swift 5 Pro down below.

You can check our in-depth review of the Acer Swift 5 Pro here.

GPU benchmark

As you can see in our GPU benchmark test below the Intel iGPU solution managed to crush NVIDIAs discrete offering pretty convincingly. We recorded performance gains of up to 97%.

Results are from the 3DMark: Time Spy (Graphics) benchmark (higher the score, the better)

Results are from the 3DMark: Fire Strike (Graphics) benchmark (higher the score, the better)

Results are from the Unigine Superposition benchmark (higher the score, the better)


Gaming tests

And here you can see some real-life results from some of our favorite games

cs-go-benchmarks

CS:GOHD 1080p, Low (Check settings)HD 1080p, Medium (Check settings)HD 1080p, MAX (Check settings)
Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7168 fps120 fps70 fps
NVIDIA GeForce MX350103 fps83 fps65 fps

DOTA 2HD 1080p, Low (Check settings)HD 1080p, Normal (Check settings)HD 1080p, High (Check settings)
Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7123 fps87 fps60 fps
NVIDIA GeForce MX350163 fps99 fps48 fps

rise-of-the-tomb-raider

Rise of the Tomb Raider (2016)Full HD, Lowest (Check settings)Full HD, Medium (Check settings)Full HD, Very High (Check settings)
Intel Iris Xe Graphics G754 fps36 fps16 fps
NVIDIA GeForce MX35038 fps24 fps– fps

Conclusion

iGPUs are getting better and better as every day passes and this test was evidence of that. Intel is getting back on their feet and it’s amazing to see that there is competition between GPU manufacturers, which could only bode well for the consumer. While Intel’s iGPU is better than NVIDIAs discreet offering there are still instances where you should leave them both enabled, such as video editing, photo editing, and other tasks that can make use of both the integrated and the discrete GPU.

You can check the prices and configurations in our Specs System: https://laptopmedia.com/series/acer-swift-5-pro-sf514-55-sf514-55g/

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