Nvidia demonstrated its Tegra 2 tablet playing Blu-ray 3D and we were surprised when Intel showed us the same on its Clarkdale 32nm Core i5-based small factor machine. Intel's HD Graphics can play Blu-ray 3D.

But there is a catch. Intel needs a special display with passive interlace 60Hz refresh. It looks good maybe slightly worse than Nvidia’s 3D stereo Blu-ray but we were impressive that it works. Since Intel’s HD graphics inside Core i5 CPU is limited to 60Hz this won't run on 120Hz displays like Nvidia’s 3D stereo and for Intel it will only run on this special and probably expensive monitors.



Intel is still working on it, but it was impressive to see this thing running to begin with. Intel claims 2X performance increase with Arrandale / Clarkdale Core i5 / Core i7 graphics and this was just enough for two video streams in HD, something you need for Blu-ray 3D. Well it’s a start.