You're doing the Lord's work showing budget gamers what's possible.

Ah! My eyes! My poor, innocent eyes!

its crazy I used to game on i3 6100 with the integrated graphics, I had to put gta 5 on 800x600 to get decent fps. But I think the worst thing I did was upgrading to a gt 710, I overclocked every single drop that gpu had, after which I could play gta 5 on 1080p 50 fps

That RDR2 giving the retro CRT tv experience tho. Nice!

gonna have to comeback to this video one day when amd releases it 120 w strix point apu. kinda see how far we've come with integrated graphics.

Videos like this make me grateful to have a PC with an actual graphics card 🙏

I'm surprised these games even open..

babe wake up another randomgaminginhd upload

I just bought a 7700K for an aging 7th gen system for my mum, just to get it on its feet again, cost me about 100$ new. Was really curious what it was capable of, thanks again mate

I was excpeting alot worse on this igpu. Glad that one is still holds up. Even a entry haswell igpu still holds up and thats the most suprising results i ever see.

I played most of Oblivion at 800x600. Then I got the best card on the market at the time, the HD 1950 XT. I was able to bump it up to max everything at 1280 x 1024 and what a treat that was!

This made him RandomGaming260P

I played all of Fallout 3 (around 2015, this was), and most of New Vegas on a Thinkpad with an i7-2670QM and its integrated HD Graphics 3000. It wasn't the absolute best performance, but heck, I had so much fun.

these graphics caused me so much anguish when i got my first brand new laptop around 2015, it was so bad that i can actually credit them with sparking my interest in computers and computer hardware as i couldnt stop dreaming of one day being able to get a decent gpu to finally allow me to play decently new games on anything more than 800x600 with unplayable framerates on the lowest settings.

its depressing that kingdom come never got dlss

I survived 3 years on Intel HD 630 until I managed to get an rx 6700 xt and a ryzen 5 7600x, good old times.

something about kingdom come deliverance at 800x600 is a vibe

Big fan mate been watching since 2018 love ur content ❤

This really takes me back to holiday break in 2017 when I left all my gaming kit at college so I could go be with my parents for awhile. Only “gaming” I could do was on my HP Pavilion 17 that had a dual-core i7 and the HD graphics onboard. I managed to start a New Vegas run and connect it to my 1360X768 TV and proceeded to have a blast with an old wired 360 controller. It has endured as one of my favorite gaming memories funnily enough, even though I was barely eking out 30-40fps on average.

I built a gaming rig with a i7 7700K back in January 2017! I used that until 2021 but still have it in another case for college and do still play games on it sometimes. I use a Ryzen 7 5800x paired with a 3060 but was a 1070 when upgraded back in 2021. Upgraded to the 3060 back in early 2023. The 7700K still holds up except for its integrated graphics hd 630 since intel just killed support for it back in march. Great Video and keep up the good work. For red dead redemption 2, see if you have the latest driver from intel. It could be an outdated driver causing it to crash.

looks pretty capable , nice video , keep it up

My living room PC / wife's PC runs my old 7700k with a 980. Not the most efficient but man does it still work. Love seeing the 7700k in your recent videos I have a lot of good memories with that chip

Would be interesting to see the figures of this test compared to 12th gen Intel integrated graphics

Reminds me off the old Quake days on my Cryix P75 equivalent pc. GLORIUS!

I've been using the iGPU in the Ryzen 5600G to play some VR games on my Quest 3 lately. It was laggy at first, but once I figured out how to lower the resolution per eye in the Steam VR settings, it's actually surprisingly playable. I am able to play Beat Saber and The Lab just fine. Crazy how far integrated graphics have come.

It's crazy how many fps you got on Minecraft! I could hardly get 30fps on the old family pc back in the day haha

For some reasons, i was played ARK Survival Evolved with i5 7500 and Intel HD Graphics 630 at 1080p lowest settings at about 30-40fps. (But you must using at least 16GB and Dual Channel RAM)

Love, how those igpu solutions are still performing, comparing that to what we had around 15 - 20 years ago as "onboard" gpu solutions... but heck, we had the geforce 6100 onboard, the HD3100, the intel GMA 950, for some time, they gave us some joy, at least with older games and today... there are more options, that has more performance (for every budget, there is a viable choice) and more games to chose to play, from the past 40+ years (Steam has a huge library, and others too,. and not to think of emulation). And that is actually a good thing (if you wonder, i recommend, looking into linux, it's worth it nowadays, especially for somer older and/or slower pc's).

If you think those numbers are bad, I did play around 60% of Twilight Princess running Dolphin on a AMD C60 CPU which has a Radeon HD 6290 iGPU. The CPU and GPU combo could only play the game at maybe 7.5 FPS.

oh shit! I was literally just looking to upgrade one of my old PCs with this processor and I was curious about the intergrated graphics. (I'll be sticking a pci powered only card in it at some point) I messed around with a 4550-ish )I can't remember which one exactly) and the integrated graphics actually surprised me, so I was keen to see if there was much improvement and... err... can't tell. Completely different games. But now I'm excited to try it :D

We went from these static I GPUs to the APUs in the PS5 and Xbox. The APUs in all of the handhelds today. And the IGPUs is the 5600 g and so on. Insane.

Integrated graphics,always interesting videos,imo.Nice video man.

Hi Bro, I have an Asus vivobook 14 laying around with an Intel i5 11th gen and a 2gb MX 330.... I don't use It for gaming, but I wonder how It would perform in older titles.....

Good review as always, this cpu and older graphics card would make a great retro pc, or a good sleeper pc 😀

This channel is starting to get very interesting! It was interesting before but this bargain ware run has been a lot of fun to watch.

why dont u test some laptops

I used to remember playing games like this on my laptop back in the days when I was 13-15. Those days were something else.....

thanks for the review mate!

This is super surprising, I took home an older machine from my company with a 7700k and it is now employed as my media server. Great vid as always! :)

My HD530 on the i5-6600 ran Crysis when I first built in 2016. This was a year before I got the 1050Ti.

I used to play on an old Toshiba laptop from 2013 with an Intel Celeron (1037U) which was far worse than this and then had an office pc with an i3 6100T (later upgraded to an i7 6700) and played a lot of games in 800x600. Crazy thing is I still feel anxious how a game runs even with my now 11700k + 3060ti.

Thanks for doing this. The newest generation computer i own is a laptop with a UHD 630. Least i now know to limit my gaming expectations. The thing that suprised me was The Witcher 3. I didnt even think it was possible! So thanks!

That you got games to run at all is surprising, I remember trying to do this on an i7-2700K and the results were hilariously bad.

Watch the video at 144p for true potato experience

My old system was a gigabyte 3070 (upgraded from a trusty old palit windforce 980ti) paired with a 7700k and 16gb of ddr4 and to be honest it ran a lot if modern titles really well, it was more when i ztarted chucking mental raytracing in on modern titles that frames started tanking... Am now on a 13900k with a 4080 and all is well. Keep up the good content mladdo

KCD & BG3 are looking really nice nostalgic! :D I've tested the UHD 630 , it's really not a big difference.

When KCD first came out I was playing it on my gtx 1050 with 30fps/720p lowest settings. And since I was using a HDD textures were popping everywhere. That was kind of funny to experience tbh.

what gpu do we plan on using? Could you use something like a GTX 1660 super or the likes?

Another great vid, thanks for it! These integrated GPUs are getting pretty reasonable these Days.

please do a video on cor2duo e7500. with max upgrade as it can get.

What graphics card are you paring this with i had an i7 6700k with a rtx 2060 super perfect for warzone and apex Fortnite was terrible tho i dont play fortnite tho

Got my hands on HP250 G6 with I7-7500U which has HD 620 and one(yikes) 8gb stick of DDR4 2133. Been tinkering around with it and (repaste done and undervolting shows great results) and it even has M.2 SSD. Found out that without dual channel RAM you lose like 30-40% of the iPGU performance so gonna keep my eyes open for 8GB DDR4 2133MHz sticks because that's the only spec it is gonna take :D

You should test the last gen Intel UHD Graphics. I'm curious to see if the improvement was big, because these recent Intel iGPUs are based on Iris Xe architecture (and I have a laptop with this last gen UHD Graphics, 16 EUs version).

a, throwback to i5-2500T and i5-3330 integrated graphics

I bought a mini pc with i5 7500T for cheap, to setup an emulation box. The HD 630 graphics at 720p are actually pretty capable for a lot of non-AAA titles. Unreal engine 4 titles are playable. I'm even running switch emulation at full speed. It's critical to get two sticks of ram running dual channel, as that doubles the bandwidth for the igpu. (+10-20% fps) Also make sure that Windows is hard-outputting 720p rather than scaling to your target resolution.

I have a Huawei Matebook D laptop with the 15 watt version of the Ryzen 2500U with integrated Vega 8 graphics I purchased at Walmart in 2018 for $400. Despite its budget price, this laptop actually came with dual channel memory which is optimal for the Vega 8. Vega 8 integrated graphics were much better than the HD 630 integrated graphics I had before in another laptop.

Can you do the same thing for UHD 730 integrated graphics?

There was a time when this resolution was premium. The only thing better was 1024 x 748. Fun fact: 800x600 through 1280 x 1024 is considered SVGA (Super VGA). I remember the old commercials for PC part fairs at the local coliseum. Super VGA A A A...CD ROOOOOOM...It sounded like they were advertising monster truck rallies or WWF wrestling.

That intro made me think you were going to start reminiscing on the days when "we didn't have this new fangled FSR... we just had to go into the .ini files and set the resolution to 640x480!" Maybe that was just me that used to do that though.

I use the UHD 630 graphics to game on my laptop (inspiron 7390-2-in-1) with an i3-8350u. It handles alot of games surprisingly well. I played metro 2033/last light at 900p 45~55ish fps, medium settings. It looked great and i played the whole story for the first time. My main pc is more powerful but i like to have that portability too and it honestly suprises me alot what my laptop can run. Just for note, it also runs Civilization 6, company of heroes 2, Skyrim LE, project zomboid, bioshock remastered 1/2/inf Fallout 3/NV (high settings not quite ultra)

my first graphics card was a 512 mb card from 2010 an with a slight overclock i was able to play fo4

the suspense of "will it run" is a good time

This runs better than my throttling 865M back in the day after 5 minutes of gameplay.

Can Dual Channel improve much for HD630?

I miss the Twitter Kingdom Come Deliverance PR situation. I used to joke with that guy non stop it was fun.

This video makes me wonder how architecture could affect performance. I think Tenth Gen Intel also used UHD 630, what would be the performance difference between the eighth gen intel core I3 or I5 and its Tenth Gen counterpart if they both had the same number of Theads? What integrated graphics can do has interested me because I almost started gaming on an integrated graphics machine and just being interested in Budget setups in general. As a religious person I thank God for the timing, when I decided, I was done waiting and was going to build a computer in Fall 2021, one of my friends had an extra gpu and was like you want a 1070 for $100? Just as a suggestion, have you tried turning up the brightness, that's what I do to avoid having to mess with in Post. I try to record during the day in game, but sometimes the timing is off.

I remember when my gtx 1070 died and i used my hd 630 while waiting for the RMA to process. I remember this potatoness

What GPU would you combine with a 7700k? 6600? 4060?

Should add the baseline of the Current Gen Intel iGPUs to compare then and now with the same settings.

My Laptop has this graphics chip paired with an i7 7200u, limited to 15w TDP and only single channel RAM. Thats basically my retro machine now, started to play the original Far Cry. You should think of these underpowered GPUs not in a way that new games only run on minimal settings, but in a way that you just install games from the PS2/early PS3 era, because 99% of them will run absolutely flawless in the native resolution, most even with high settings.

is it normal that im not getting similar results in CS 2 ? im using i7 8700t 16gb ram 2400mhz and asically the hd630 since i sold my gpu (buying one soon)

Older hardware rocks! My i7 2600 stock system more or less works as well for everyday tasks as my Ryzen system, whilst using less power.

You should test the UHD 730 and 770. I recently bought an i5-11400T PC and it can play older games at 2048x1152 with good framerates. Half Life 2 Lost Coast I was getting around 90 max settings at 1440p! The UHD 7xx graphics are based on the Intel Xe architecture so a significant step up. More than twice as powerful as an Xbox 360 GPU with more than double the memory bandwidth if you have decent emmory (1Rx8 3200 Mhz dual-channel).

This CPU is a part of a desktop I built for my younger brother. I've been playing Fallout 4 and Helldivers 2 since I built my new desktop, so I'm very happy to see it here. Thank you for reviewing this product🌹

KCD at that res kinda worked, as if it was an oblivion era game or something.

Bet I could get it running the latest Resident Evil

Try some onboard beast like ATI HD 3000 😀

Can someone explain to me why the minimum framerate is greater than the 1% low ?

In a way it's magical to play with this resolution and minimum graphics

The GPU for Word and Excel can do gaming as well.

This is way faster than my Intel 4600. Nice.

Rather than trying to use the HD 630 for gaming, it does a lot better as the basis of a media server. The difference in transcoding between the HD 530 in 6th Gen and 630 on 7th Gen is that the 530 will only do up to h264 and SDR at best, where the 630 can do x265/HEVC and 10-bit HDR. Of course, the newer Arc cards are transcode champions with AV1 support as well, but that's only a marginal improvement right now (besides the Arc GPUs will only really justify themselves through the many video streams you can use all at once)

The UHD 630 is best fit for Quicksync stuff. Helps quite a bit. Even in Premiere Pro. As for gaming, there's almost no point trying these new games, plenty of great stuff from the past, like Sacred, Dragon Age Origins, Witcher etc. They should run half-decently I think. The 7700K will run at 5GHz quite easily, especially if you delid it, and it will stay cool too, in the 50s-70s in full usage, depending on ambient and case. Still, more than a 3060 for it is overkill.

My laptop has an i5-6200U with Intel 520 graphics and it can run games like Fallout 4 on low with less than 30 FPS depending on performance mods used, I use one or two and my average is about 14 FPS. I mostly play New Vegas anyways and have it running on high with about 40 FPS at 720p since the display size is only 1366p x 768p. I would say that the Intel 630 graphics would be a large improvement over the 520, I wish had it.

Sad that the laptops what come with that chip are always limited by tdp :(

4:17 It's supposed to be an approximation of the color the setting sun would cast on everything. It's an iGPU, ya know?

My Iris 655 Plus (NUC8i5BEK) runs basically anything, even Alan Wake 2 (albeit in white & red colours). Also Cyberpunk runs @ 15-30fps. Also Plague Tale 2 (in red colours). Only 2 games that I couldn't launch are Talos 2 & Last of Us Part 1 (says that I don't have dx12 although it has 12.1 hardware level). It runs Asscreed Origins/Odyssey, Baldurs Gate 3, Metro Exodus, Syberia 4 (heavy Unity crap), Jagged Alliance 3, Control, KCD, Mafia Definitive, SotTR, RotTR, NFS Heat, RDR2, Subnautica (heavy Unity crap), Witcher 3 next-gen, Detroit Became Human, Martha is Dead etc. Also, there is this frame-interp tool LSFG, maybe could be useful.

1:50 Not sure if it's better or worse than the Switch version lol. Haven't tried it yet on the Switch but I doubt I'll ever get it there as well, it's more of a surprise that even runs there but definitely not the best experience

I recently swapped out my i5-6500 for an i7-6700 which has Intel HD 530 Graphics. According to Intel's own site, there's no difference between 530 and 630. Exact same specs across the board. Kinda nice knowing I could still play a few games in case my 1050 Ti takes a dirt nap.

5:04 I've never played Helldivers 2 but I can imagine it wasn't intended to have worse graphics than a PlayStation 1.

Please test Intel UHD 730.

Curious to see how these games run on 540p Windowed with upscaling from Magpie or Lossless Scaling to Fullscreen on Integrated Oo

Considering it's 7yr old integrated graphics, not bad. Also quicksync still punches above it's weight with decent quality output making these older machines great for NAS/Media server duty. No AV1 support but that hardly matters for most users with only a couple clients.

I have a Gtx1060 laptop, but I play mostly on an optiplex micro pc with this, lol.

This igpu is still good. It can hw AV1. On i7 laptop is still ok

kinda curious on how gta iv might run on intel hd graphics 4000

I’m quite surprised how well it runs and how okay it looks… though I am viewing this on my phone! I’ve seen a lot worse, but then I’ve been gaming since the mid-80s…

Helldivers 2 almost looked like a ps1 demake ;p

I believe UHD 630 and Vega 3 have the same performance or less?

I think Helldivers 2 is bugged from your footage. It should not be that dark even at night. More driver issues I suspect.