This allows the user to balance high-performance and power-efficiency. *Some Laptops have both Integrated and Dedicated GPUs and it is possible to switch between them. But if your tasks can’t take advantage of a discrete card (such as Office Programs), you’re better off with an Integrated one. If the application that you use can take advantage of a powerful GPU, you will observe a significant improvement in performance.

Sorry for long question, and thank you for any input, explanation or Intel link/whitepapers for reading.Though the dedicated cards will result in better rendering and gaming performance, they also consume more battery and has the potential to run hotter (*). If Iris is better, why Intel doesn’t have a desktop grade CPU with Iris, but only with UHD Graphics line? Come back to my initial question: i5-9500T vs i5-8259U for occasional video editing? That means that non Iris doesn’t do it so well? And Intel says that Iris perform fast encoding in H265. I found a comparison in Youtube between Iris and UHD Graphics in a game. From other side, i5-9500T consumes more power (is that bad for a desktop?!) and has 6 cores, but it comes with UHD Graphics 630. But in the same time, i5-8259U has just 4 cores, and it’s 28w. I read that Iris is the top or integrated GPU. Unfortunately I’m not well understanding what’s going at Intel because lack of information or my understanding.

The heaviest task that I’ll perform sometimes is video editing, mostly in 1080p. I have two options: i5-9500T with Intel® UHD Graphics 630 or i5-8259U with Iris® Plus Graphics 655.

I would like to upgrade my laptop to a tiny desktop. Hi everybody! I’m not sure if I can use this forum for advice, but let me know if that forum is not for that.

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