AMD Dual Graphics Analysis: Better Benchmarks; Same Experience?
AMD's Dual Graphics technology gives APU owners the ability to add a discrete GPU to their platforms for better performance. We take a close look at the results, both in terms of frames-per-second and experiential smoothness, thanks to captured video.
Results: F1 2012
AMD's CrossFire technology for APUs and GPUs provides a small but measurable speed-up in this title. Only the Radeon HD 7750 gives us more than a 30 FPS minimum at these settings.
Dual Graphics appears to register more peaks and valleys than one GPU working alone when we plot frame rate over time.
In Dual Graphics mode, the Radeon HD 6670 cards exhibit a big increase in frame time variance. Let's see how that translates to real-world gameplay:
Regardless of Fraps telling us that the average frame rate is higher, AMD's Radeon HD 6670 DDR3 in Dual Graphics mode has just as many stuttering issues as the A10-6800K APU, if not more. Once again, the Radeon HD 7750 runs smoothly.
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