Test Setup And Benchmarks
Again, because the new Radeon HD 8000M-series GPUs aren't yet shipping in notebooks, we're using a desktop-oriented setup with a PCI Express interposer to preview the performance of AMD's GCN-enabled mainstream mobile graphics processors. Although we could have used an overclocked Core i7-3770K to crush the potential of a platform-oriented bottleneck, we stepped down to a Core i5-2500K instead. Though still fast, this part running at its stock settings is perhaps a better match to the performance of what you might find in a notebook (even if its 95 W TDP is way out of bounds).
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| Test Hardware | |
|---|---|
| Processor | Intel Core i5-2500K (Sandy Bridge), 32 nm, 3.3 GHz, LGA 1155, 6 MB Shared L3, Turbo Boost Enabled |
| Motherboard | MSI Z77A-GD80 |
| Memory | Kingston Hyper-X 8 GB (2 x 4 GB) DDR3-1333 @ DDR3-1333, 1.5 V |
| System Drive | OCZ Vertex 3 240 GB SATA 6Gb/s |
| Graphics | AMD Radeon HD 7670M 1 GB GDDR5AMD Radeon HD 8790M 2 GB GDDR5 |
| Power Supply | Seasonic 760 W, 80 PLUS Gold |
| System Software and Drivers | |
| Operating System | Windows 7 x64 Ultimate |
| DirectX | DirectX 11 |
| Driver | Graphics: Catalyst 9.011 beta RST: 11.5.0.1207 Virtu: 1.1.101 |
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| Benchmarks | |
|---|---|
| Hitman Absolution | 1280x720, 1600x900, 1920x1080, Low and Ultra Quality Presets |
| Far Cry 3 | 1280x720, 1600x900, 1920x1080, Low and High Quality Presets |
| The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim | 1280x720, 1600x900, 1920x1080, High and Ultra Quality Presets |
| World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria | DX11; 1280x720, 1600x900, 1920x1080, High and Ultra Quality Presets |
| Battlefield 3 | 1280x720, 1600x900, 1920x1080, Low and Extra Quality Presets |
| Call of Duty: Black Ops II | 1280x720, 1600x900, 1920x1080, Normal and Extra Quality Presets |
| LuxMark | v2.0, Sala Scene |
| CLBenchmark | v1.1.2, Physics SPH Fluid Simulation |
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