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Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Floating Point. Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Integer. While AMD may lag behind Intel in certain kinds of application performance, the A's 3D graphics capabilities considerably improve the outlook for budget gaming desktops.
Even at low resolution and image quality, Intel's HD Graphics core can't provide a playable Far Cry 2 experience. AMD's Radeon HD , particularly with the faster memory, offers nearly three times the performance. The A's advantage on the more demanding Metro is less dramatic, but still noticeable.
Intel's chip offers only DirectX 10 support, but even compared with the A's worst DirectX 11 frame rate, the Core i3 is still about 50 percent slower. Between these two scores, with Far Cry 2 representing a very forgiving game, and Metro among the most demanding, we can say that while you would still enjoy a better gaming experience with a discrete graphics card, the AMD A and its Radeon HD graphics core offer impressive PC gaming capabilities for the price.
As AMD has done before, if you add a lower-end Radeon HD series card to a desktop with the A, the two will work together, in a sort of budget dual-graphics card mode. A more high-end graphics card won't receive a boost from the embedded CPU graphics core, but paired with a Radeon HD , for example, AMD says the A will provide roughly between 10 percent and 25 percent more performance than you'd see from the card by itself.
Due to the new architecture, AMD's new chips will require new motherboard chipsets as well. The A55 variants have USB 2. AMD's new platform can also support 3D Blu-ray playback. That might not be the most popular feature, but home-theater PC builders may appreciate it, and it's not a feature supported by Intel's second-gen Core platform. Our power consumption comparison was thwarted somewhat by the fact that the Intel Z68 motherboard wouldn't work with our admittedly old watt Antec Neo HE power supply.
To keep things equal, we tested both systems with a 1,watt PSU, but that much wattage is completely overkill for these CPUs, and the resulting power efficiency comparison was not representative of the power draw you'd see from desktops using these chips. With a more typical power supply, the AMD A offered power efficiency that seemed to improve on that of older AMD chips with similar performance, like the 2.
In any case, the A's power draw even in our unoptimized test bed was impressive. We'd expect a vendor-built system with a more efficient power supply and strategically selected power management features to offer even greater efficiency.
We'd hoped to see faster graphics processing in Photoshop CS5 as well, but Intel's standard CPU performance superiority seems to give it the edge there and with programs that rely on more traditional CPU processing. If you regularly use a program designed to make use of multiple processing cores, the A is a better choice. Regardless of situational hair-splitting, AMD's A is robust enough to offer an acceptable computing experience, and its 3D processing power, both by itself and in conjunction with a lower-end Radeon graphics card, should make this chip popular, particularly among mainstream gamers.
Intel test bed Windows 7 Home Premium bit; 3. Rich Brown. Pricing Not Available. AMD's new chip doesn't outperform its Intel equivalent on many standard programs. We recommend the AMD A to mainstream desktop PC users in search of capable gaming power and multithreaded application performance.
Apple iTunes encoding test in seconds Shorter bars indicate better performance. Adobe Photoshop CS3 in seconds Shorter bars indicate better performance. Adobe Photoshop CS5 image-processing test in seconds Shorter bars indicate better performance. Multimedia multitasking in seconds Shorter bars indicate better performance.
Cinebench Far Cry 2 in fps Longer bars indicate better performance. Metro in fps Longer bars indicate better performance.
Score Breakdown Design 8 Features 8 Performance 7.
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