It is difficult to get the level of performance that we want to see in integrated graphics, but it is important to consider the fact that users of integrated graphics may not need any 3D support and would certainly not want to pay for it. There must be sufficient performance on integrated graphics to run current software so that end users are satisfied, but cheap budget cards also need to provide a sufficient step up from integrated solutions. Graphics companies have to be quite careful when developing integrated and budget cards to not cannibalize their business for either product. The real reason for the existence of the 6200 TurboCache and the X300 HyperMemory is to provide an affordable setup up from integrated graphics. After all, what's more "budget" than dropping the graphics chip on the motherboard? Today, we are revisiting budget performance. We spent some time testing ATI and NVIDIA's latest low end parts recently.
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