AMD 790GX: RV610 For Enthusiasts?
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Page 1:Integrated Graphics Go High-End
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Page 2:790GX: Dissected
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Page 3:AMD’s Peace Offering: SB750
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Page 4:A Chipset With its Own Software?
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Page 5:Gigabyte’s MA790GP-DS4H
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Page 6:Test Setup
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Page 7:Benchmarks: Synthetic
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Page 8:Benchmarks: Synthetic, Continued
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Page 9:Benchmarks: Gaming
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Page 10:Benchmarks: Media
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Page 11:Storage
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Page 12:Power Consumption
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Page 13:Overclocking
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Page 14:Conclusion
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.
Summary
Thanks for the feedback Kit.
Take a closer look. What happened?
http://arstechnica.com/reviews/hardware/atom-nano-review.ars/6
Please change this benchmark suite or check if PcMark Vantage is unbiased.
That was strange. Should be fixed now.
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.
Alright, mystery solved. It's back up, sans the blank page. Thanks for pointing that out lacrits!
why you use 3470 and 8500 for the tests?
hybrid crossfire and nvidia boost don't work with faster cards?
is the performance gain not big with 3870 or 9600gt?
thanks
so what if i use a 3650 with this board? or why will i buy a quad core and dont spend some more for a 3850?
Nice Review, However I would like to see how well SLI scales on this board using a 4850 and 4870 vs another AMD Board with full Duel 16x PCIE 2.0 Slots.
I've seen some other reviews where Dual 8x PCIE 2.0 Slots start having scaling issues on the 4850 at are not seen on the 3800 Series.
Does the 128mb side-port limit the on board video to that amount of memory? Does this affect Vista Areo?
i have a question why do you recommend ddr1066 over 800? i thought there wasn't a huge difference.
also im a bit confused about this 16x, vs. 8x 8x...
if i use a single card (for now) which motherboard (790g, 790gx) will produce more graphixs capabilities?
http://www.hkepc.com/?id=1510&page=5&fs=idn#view
The GMA X4500 seems to be much faster than the GMA X3500 and within 10-30% of the 780G in actual games. I guess the 790GX was a timely addition and with it being 20% faster than the 780G, that should open up the lead over the GMA X4500 to 30-50%.
The only one I know of is the DFI one...