But there’s a problem… You see, at IDF 2009 last week, Intel announced their newest Atom CE4100 platform. So, it sounds like the GMA 500 sucks, right? That’s exactly what it sounds like. Dated version 8.Ī few users on the MyDellMini forums are already discussing it on their Dell Minis and it appears that while the Windows 7 experience score for graphics get’s boosted there still seems to be little to no improvement in graphics performance. The latest Intel GMA 500 graphics drivers are available for Windows 7 through the update panel under “optional updates”. Latest GMA 500 Drivers For Windows 7 – Still Not Enough For Aero So why don’t you see this awesome performance on your netbook or MID? In fact, the GMA 500 is capable of simultaneous decoding of two (yes, two) 1080p streams, 3D graphics, and DirectX 10.1 – and all that in a 2.3W power envelope (at least in the US15W “Poulsbo” chipset). You know, the one that’s in all those Z-series (and soon Pine Trail-based) netbooks, the one that gets all the bad reviews, and the one that is generally regarded as less capable than even that ancient, stinking heap of a graphics core, the GMA 950. I’m talking about Intel’s GMA 500 graphics chip. Alrighty, I just can’t stay quiet about this one.
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