Nehalem processors with the integrated graphic core will be prescribed in the mass price segment. This immediately gave the assumption about the low speed level of the integrated graphic processor core. In principle, this reasoning's is true : first, transistor budget is limited, and to make a productive graphic core processor is simply disadvantageous; second, the integrated in chipset graphic cores never get high productivity in comparison with discrete solutions .
In interviews with Patrick Gelsinger, Intel vice Presidents stated that There was new information about the speed of built-in graphic core processor. As explained Mr. Gelsinger, the graphic core will win from the transfer in the processor not only due to the closer integration with the processor cores, but also due to the access of divided processor cache. Nehalem processor will have a multilevel cache, and last level will be divided. Most likely, we deal here with the divided cache in the third level .
According to Intel estimations , the speed of this new graphic core will be between 20% and 200% faster than executing solution.