Intel Iris Graphics?

[Curtis Day]

About to order the Mac mini with the dual core i7 Haswell but it has Intel Iris Graphics. Will it run NSMBW like poop due it being a terrible video card?

[admin89]

Nope . Integrated GPU is not a video/graphic card , it's built inside your CPU
Intel Iris Pro 5200 is the most powerful integrated GPU atm , it's on par with grahic card like Nvidia GT 640(desktop) or GT 650M (laptop) .
The dual core i7 which you're talking about is i7-4578U . Stock speed = 3.0GHz with max turbo = 3.5GHz . It's a powerful CPU for Dolphin . It has built in Iris 5100 iGPU . Iris 5100 lacks the additional eDRAM cache of the Iris Pro Graphics 5200 . So 5100 is only on par with GT 540M
I tried many games on GT 540M and Intel HD 4600 (i5 4300M version) , Both GPU can handle 2.5x Internal Resolution (1600x1320) well
NSMBW is a super light-weight game . I bet you will have at least 300FPS if you disable framelimit

[Curtis Day]

Thanks!