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When running at fully capacity the Iris consume ~35W which is about what the NVidia max power consumption is as well according to GpuZoo. When Idling the CPU Package Gfx (the Iris) consumption is ~0.24W. Surprisingly, the integrated GPU of the new version is slower than the first version. The new version is twice as fast as the first generation: the integrated GPU (Iris Pro vs HD 4000) is 52% faster. Both my laptop and his laptop have 16 GB of RAM, though hes running OS X 10.7.5. As visible on the chart below, on this benchmark the Iris Pro does a good job and is only 33% slower than the GeForce 750m. He bought his laptop, equipped with the NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M and Intel HD Graphics 4000 graphics card, in mid-2012. I asked a friend to run it on his Macbook Pro Retina (15) first generation (2.3GHz Intel Core i7) to get a comparison point. The first benchmark I ran is the well-known Heaven benchmark in extreme settings. Added Starcraft 2 lower resolution as requested. 10/31: added temperature measures as requested in the comments. Edits:ġ0/27: added a GPU power consumption measure as requested in the comments. Overall the new Macbook Pro with its gorgeous screen and good graphic cards is an excellent gaming laptop (but, alas, a little bit pricey). Don’t let the synthetic benchmarks fool you: as we will see on Starcraft 2, the Nvidia is almost 50% faster. The bottom line: the integrated GPU does a good job for everything but gaming. Since no one has, at least so far, published benchmarks comparing the real-world performance of the integrated graphics chip (Iris Pro) vs the discrete one (NVIDIA GeForce 750M), I thought Id run a few to help people decide if they need the integrated one. On a personal level, Im also pretty interested in how its gaming performance compares with its predecessors. I was lucky enough to get the new 2013 high-end Macbook Pro Retina (15) yesterday and started wondering about how it compares to the mid-2012 Retina (15) model.