My current laptop has a build in intel graphics card model HD Graphics 530 (Skylake GT2).
I feel like the gnome desktop is a little slugish and there is a lot of tearing especially on the build in screen,w
Here are some of the test results of the glx utilities:
~> vblank_mode=0 glxspheres
Polygons in scene: 62464 (61 spheres * 1024 polys/spheres)
ATTENTION: default value of option vblank_mode overridden by environment.
ATTENTION: default value of option vblank_mode overridden by environment.
Visual ID of window: 0x96
Context is Direct
OpenGL Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel(R) HD Graphics 530 (Skylake GT2)
295.032898 frames/sec - 329.256715 Mpixels/sec
221.640798 frames/sec - 247.351130 Mpixels/sec
~> vblank_mode=0 glxgears
ATTENTION: default value of option vblank_mode overridden by environment.
ATTENTION: default value of option vblank_mode overridden by environment.
37823 frames in 5.0 seconds = 7564.508 FPS
37781 frames in 5.0 seconds = 7556.067 FPS
I am no expert but I will say this should handle gnome relatively decent, what performance are you getting out of your intel card?
No they seem pretty good for a CPU bound GPU. On-board GPU are generally inferior to separate GPU They simply do not have the same number of cores so can never be as fast.