While these chips don’t offer the same sort of performance you’d expect from a discrete graphics card from AMD or NVIDIA, the integrated graphics offer better support for HD video playback and 3D graphics than any of Intel’s earlier integrated graphics cores.
Intel’s 3rd-generation Core family processors feature integrated Intel HD 4000 graphics. The Intel HD 4000 graphics driver version 15.3.1 should be available in early April.
Intel is set to release a new graphics driver for computers with Ivy Bridge processors, which the company says will improve graphics performance while lowering power consumption.