Fouquin The 930M is also a 33W (2x the afforded power envelope) chip, thus capable of higher performance flags? Measuring battery life doesn't tell you how much power the GPU is using since it's almost never running into a scenario to turbo, but the higher power envelope reinforces the idea that the 930M is less restricted than the Iris Plus 640.



This would be a more level comparison. With 35-45W to play with Intel can pack a much more potent iGPU.

While I can't disagree that at very low resolutions and settings it seems to work fine, at 1080 it fell flat on its face consistantly compared to a 40W higher device the Zbox Magnus 970, which offered a minimum of 2X the performance at 1080 and usually much more than that. So are we talking about playing a game on a screen with terrible resolution and only basic settings? I have Iris in my new laptop Im posting this on, tried steam for a few games and hated it so much I went back to my phone.My phone can play the games at 1080 (GTA3 for example) with HDMI interface to my TV or DLNA and offers the same performance in these light weight games, as do most tablets, again rendering the Intel graphics virtually pointless from a 3D standpoint.The 640 vs the 930M the normalized power consumption shows very minor difference, and the only real difference was the size of batteries installed in the two devices.