The integrated Intel graphics will be capable of playing older games and maybe some less demanding newer games on low/medium settings. Without dedicated graphics, this isn't really intended as a gaming machine.
Calum , I don't want to agree nor disagree. Consider this. Intel has put a lot of money and time into its new CPU design. The have the people and tools needed to make the best of whatever they want. If they really believed separate chips were the hay to go, why don't they?
Intel history has examples of where Intel would put onto one chip the stuff that used to be separate. Dual core instead to two separate CPUs. Match processors on the same chip. Cached memory on the chip. These offered both economic and technical advantages.
Why would a separate Graphics thing be better? Aside from genomic advances, there are technical resins to put graphics and the core on the same chip.Speed.
Are there real benchmarks out there that show separate graphics perform better?
Curious minds need to know.