Intel Ultra-low voltage decreases integrated graphics performance!?

[GunXpatriot]

so I was reading about different integrated graphics in Intel's HD line...

From this page on Notebookcheck, I was surprised. It actually showed that in many cases, the 5000's performance was LESS than the 4000's.

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-HD-Graphics-5000.91978.0.html

It also said that in ULV cpu's, the clock speed of the ntegrated graphics will be limited to a certain amount of power consumption, despite not reaching near full clock speed, which would cause the 5000 to perform worse than even the 4000. Have any of you found this to be true?

I was looking at an i3-based laptop on Ebay because I need something that is more capable of video editing than my old Turion 64x2 TL-60 laptop. Well, these have two cores with double the single core performance, AND hyperthreading. I know it's not optimal, but it's what I can quickly afford, and since I have a beast custom rig back home, this would be fine for when I don't have access to it...

My question was... Have you found it true, that ULV will throttle GPU so severely that they will underperform compared to the last gen? If so, I guess I should be going with an "m" type cpu from intel, rather than a "u" ULV-type, correct?

I ask this because I want to do a LITTLE bit of gaming when I want to. I have realistic expectations of what HD 4000 can do. But if I'm gonna use integrated, I might as well go for the BEST integrated I can use (in my circumstances). And I certainly don't want to cripple it any further, obviously.

 

[sanderzz]

Intel HD graphics usually have a very small ammount of ddr3 memory shared from the system memory, and are only designed for desktop use. I tried to use my i5 3230m hd4000 laptop for games and it achieved 20fps max on minecraft at 768p. If you can deal with the terrible performance, go with one of the older m series cpus because their power consumption is much higher, they run a lot hotter but they perform better.
Hope I helped

 

[GunXpatriot]

Thanks for the input, Sanderzz!

 

[GunXpatriot]

Oh, and would you happen to know what the highest performing i3 3xxxM is? Is it in fact the 3230m looks pretty good...

Also, I wonder if the CPU was actually the bottleneck, considering how CPU intensive Minecraft is...

Or maybe you had effects and stuff way high? lol