Intel will have to optimize its drivers in the weeks and months ahead if it hopes to leave better first impressions for early adopters. Apex Legends: Frame rates would be unusually low in the single-digits range for the first few minutes of gameplay.Įven if the Iris Xe G7 can be as fast as the GeForce MX250 or MX350 on paper, it can only be as good or as stable as its drivers.Lowering the settings to minimum seems to address this. Hunt Showdown: The game would crash if certain graphics settings are enabled.Death Stranding, which uses the same Decima engine, would run without any problems. Horizon Zero Dawn: The game would crash shortly after bootup.Shadow of the Tomb Raider: Certain graphics settings would crash the game upon loading a save.Doom Eternal: The color values of some textures are not correct and so certain surfaces may shimmer uncontrollably.

Division 2: Textures immediately surrounding characters would sometimes fade black or not load correctly.

The problematic games we experienced are as follows: Though it was running on an early graphics driver (v27.20.100.8439), we were still hoping for better results since the platform will be hitting store shelves very soon.

We recently had the chance to benchmark over two dozen different games on a soon-to-be-released Iris Xe G7 laptop and a handful of them would run with noticeable issues. Of course, 3DMark never tells the whole story. 3DMark results show the new Iris Xe G7 outperforming the Iris Plus G7 by as much as 70 to 90 percent. The 11th gen U-series will replace last year's 10th gen Ice Lake series with significantly upgraded integrated graphics as detailed in our overview of Tiger Lake. Intel Tiger Lake is set to launch in just a few weeks from major OEMs including Dell, HP, Lenovo, Asus, and more.

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