AMD 790GX: RV610 For Enthusiasts?

By Chris Angelini
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Benchmarks: Media

Not much variance here. The 790GX manages to serve up a slightly faster time in our iTunes audio conversion. But the difference is small, at best.

We get similar results in our MainConcept video conversion test, where the 790GX wins, but only by a scant two seconds. The 780G board takes second place and is followed by Nvidia’s GeForce 8300 platform — separated again by only two seconds.

Blu-ray playback using PowerDVD is a light-duty affair with both AMD and Nvidia solutions. Using the quad-core Phenom X4 9850 CPU, we saw utilization numbers in the two percent range on the 790GX. The GeForce 8300 wasn’t much higher, nearly two and a half percent. Of course, as you shed processing power, the task becomes more demanding.

Chris Angelini
Chris Angelini
Chris Angelini is an Editor Emeritus at Tom's Hardware US. He edits hardware reviews and covers high-profile CPU and GPU launches.
71 Comments Comment from the forums
  • kitsilencer
    Great review, and it's good to see that AMD is at last able to target more enthusiast markets competitively.
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  • cangelini
    kitsilencerGreat review, and it's good to see that AMD is at last able to target more enthusiast markets competitively.
    Thanks for the feedback Kit.
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  • eklipz330
    ^^^iseriously thought that was sarcasm, until i saw the authors name
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  • waffle911
    So... why does a page 15 and 16 of this article exist if there is no page 15 or 16 to the article?
    Take a closer look. What happened?
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  • YYD
    PCMark seems Intel biased, please read this:
    http://arstechnica.com/reviews/hardware/atom-nano-review.ars/6

    Please change this benchmark suite or check if PcMark Vantage is unbiased.
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  • cangelini
    waffle911So... why does a page 15 and 16 of this article exist if there is no page 15 or 16 to the article?Take a closer look. What happened?
    That was strange. Should be fixed now.
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  • cangelini
    YYDPCMark seems Intel biased, please read this:http://arstechnica.com/reviews/har view.ars/6Please change this benchmark suite or check if PcMark Vantage is unbiased.
    Fortunately, with no Intel platforms tested, this should be a non-issue for the current situation ;-) In the future, you'll be seeing SYSmark, though.
    Reply
  • Seems past page 8 or something the links are corrupt.. can't fully read this article and getting error 404 - page not found.
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  • .. and now the article seems to be removed even from the main page!?!?!
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  • cangelini
    lacrits.. and now the article seems to be removed even from the main page!?!?!
    Alright, mystery solved. It's back up, sans the blank page. Thanks for pointing that out lacrits!
    Reply