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Does enabling integrated graphics slow CPU?
No, it won’t affect your CPU performance per say. However, it will eat much more into your onboard memory. If you use a single channel memory, it will affect you even more, since graphic intensive applications need a very wide memory bandwidth.
Do integrated graphics help?
Integrated graphics in the CPU is not necessary. But if Intel gets their way with game developers, the “useless IGP” may become a very desirable “IGPGPU” to offload stuff like OpenCL/DirectCompute game physics off the GPU/CPU in exactly the sort of games high-end gamers keep talking about.
What is integrated graphics and do I need It?
Integrated graphics is just a small graphics controller embedded on the CPU die, sometimes it’s on a separate die itself. It doesn’t really affect CPU performance at all. Not having one doesn’t really give you any dis/advantage.
Is it possible to get a CPU without integrated graphics?
Well, going with a CPU without integrated graphics is basically impossible on Skylake (in terms of saving money), and was something that was regularly done on Haswell with the Xeon E3 1231v3 basically being a 4790 for the price of a 4690k without integrated graphics.
Does integrated graphics affect Intel i7 performance?
On Skylake, Xeon E3’s no longer work on consumer chipsets, and thus it’s no longer a cheap way of getting i7 performance. AFAIK using integrated graphics only affects performance by increasing temperatures on the chip (which only matters if you have inadequate cooling and really would only ever affect overclocked cpus), and using a bit of RAM.
Is there a downside to using integrated graphics with a locked CPU?
P.s. using BCLK overclocking on Skylake CPUs also disables integrated graphics, so there’s an actual downside to using integrated graphics on locked Skylake CPUs I guess.