Intel kaby lake g with radeon vega graphics is put to the test in the most demanding games

Last year we witnessed a historic collaboration between Intel and AMD to end Nvidia's dominance in the high-performance graphics laptop industry. The two companies teamed up to create the Kaby Lake G processors with integrated graphics based on Radeon Vega.

Kaby Lake G impresses in the most demanding games

At CES we got more details on the specs of a total of five Kaby Lake G series processors and now we have the first samples of the performance they are capable of offering. For this, an engineering sample of Intel's next NUC Hades Canyon mini PC has been used, which integrates the most powerful of these new Kaby Lake G processors.

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The folks at Playwares have managed to get their hands on one of these new gadgets, inside is the Core i7-8809G processor that comes with a 4-core 8-core CPU setup at a base / boost speed of 3.1 / 4.2GHz. Its specs follow with a Radeon RG Vega M GPU with 24 CU, which translates to 1536 Stream Processors, 96 TUs, 64 ROPs, and 4GB of onboard HBM2 memory. The rest of the specifications go through 16 GB of 2133 MHz DDR4 RAM and a 1TB Samsung 960 Pro SSD.

With these specs at 1080p resolution, the Intel NUC achieved an average frame rate per second of 52.59 fps in Rise of the Tomb Raider on ultra. In Assassin's Creed Origins, it achieved 34 fps in ultra settings, in Rainbow Six Siege it averaged 96 fps, and in PUBG it scored 65 frames per second on average with a custom preset.

This makes it clear that Intel's new Kaby Lake-G processors will be more than capable of delivering a good 1080p gaming experience and high-detail graphics settings.

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