Intel has decided to lead its introduction of Ivy Bridge for mobile
with its most powerful quad-core parts. Many of these processors will
end up in mainstream laptop, but they’re also great for gaming laptops.
In our first look at Ivy Bridge we saw that it holds up well when paired
with its own Intel HD 4000 graphics – if you keep the resolution around
1366x768. A bit more than that and the IGP just can’t hang.
Gamers will still want a beefy discrete GPU, and that’s what the G75
offers. Inside this beast you’ll find an Nvidia GeForce GTX 670M. Those
who were reading our Kepler coverage will remember that this is not
based off Nvidia’s newest architecture but is instead a re-work of an
older Fermi chip. That mean seem a bit disappointing, and it is – but
the performance of Nvidia’s older mobile chips wasn’t lackluster.
