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Intel Haswell has integrated GPU. I have been using one for ~ 1 year. It supports VGA, DVI, HDMI output all at the same time. Works well. Power is better than the I7 I used before.

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There is an integrated GPU, but it doesn't really compete with the APU's GPU. For the benchmarks, it has been augmented with a much more powerful Nvidia chip, taking thermal load away from the CPU/iGPU and freeing that space up for CPU-only load.

I run an i7 4500 in my laptop (same as the one in the article), and my parents have a desktop APU comparable to the one presented here. Their GPU's are not in the same ballpark. Intel does have powerful GPU's now, but they are only available in CPU's of 47W and up, and at a much steeper price as well. (Price is unrelated to my previous argument, but I'm pretty confident that the price per part of an AMD A7600 will be far below that of the i7-4500u)

Also, for the benchmarks presented here, we have no details about actually consumed energy by the devices, and we don't know what the devices consume during "typical" usage either.

It is also disabled when external gpu is present. At least it should be.

There were plans not to disable the on-chip GPU and use it as a power saving feature. When the gpu work load can be handled by the on-chip GPU, disabling the external GPU saves you quite a lot of energy.

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