The Unigine Tropics performance was also largely indifferent between Windows and Ubuntu Linux on the ThinkPad W510 notebook with the Intel Core i7 processor and NVIDIA Quadro graphics.

The 945 chipset was Intel's top-of-the-line integrated graphics chipset when it was introduced in May 2005, but it still sold lots of lower-end 915 chipsets in both desktops and notebooks.

One of the new features of the Intel chips is an integrated graphics processor.