so for this video I'm going to be taking the highest performing of the highest
performing The Most Extreme of the EXT
no not okay uh actually this video is
going to be all about onboard Graphics
because AMD has just released their new A8 3850 as well as their A6 30 something
something uh well any anyway the A8 3850 is the one that I'm having a look at
it's their new Apu and AMD claims has
onboard discret level direct X11 Graphics so we're going to take that and
we're going to put it to the test against Intel's core I3
2105 so this uses Intel HD 3000 graphics
which is the higher end of the graphics on the Sandy Bridge processor so this
has the same onboard Graphics as the 2600k and the 2500k but it is a dual
core lower-end chip that actually is priced similarly to the A8 3850 now for
a third point of comparison I'm also going to be taking a Radeon
6670 and I'm going to be plugging it in in dual Graphics mode this is the wrong
motherboard but it's around here somewhere in dual Graphics mode with the
A8 3850 to see how much of a performance
boost we can get by adding a discrete card in dual Graphics mode which used to
be called hybrid Crossfire so I'm going to be running at 1280 x 720 with a
variety of games the first one is Dirt 3 if you come in and have a closer look
you'll probably see that it looks like crap because it's running at 720p with
everything set to low but the reality of
it is I want to get reproducible results where I can actually show scaling
between all of these different Graphics Solutions so I have to I have to have
something reasonably playable or especially on games where I actually
have to play through it's going to be very difficult to do consistent uh
benchmarking runs so stay tuned for more
and I will be showing you these three solutions up against each other boot wot
Battlefield Bad Company 2 is a game that looks like it was released like check
check out check that out check out that Alias thing looks like it was released
like 8 years ago when you play it on onboard Graphics see here's my fellow
characters such crappy textures but
that's what I have to do to Benchmark on board so here we go for crisis 2
ironically the lowest Graphics setting
is high because they subscribe to the good better best even better than that
uh system of doing things obviously
direct X11 is off with the cor I
32105 because it does not support direct X11 so here we go crisis 2 is the next
in my list of oh I haven't even written it down yet
crisis 2 games to
Benchmark okay my Benchmark runs finished in crisis 2 but I just wanted
to show you guys how utterly rubbish it looks with uh
onboard Graphics so here I'll zoom in as far as I can so you guys can kind of see
what I'm talking about here there's basically no substantiality to any
textures at all you see that blurriness that's not from my camera that's just from
like um being zoomed in but like you just you can't make out anything it's
kind of terar bad like look at look at these sandbags it just looks like big
white blobs and performance isn't any good
either for The Witcher 2 I will be using the
lowest presets once again at 1280 x 720
which is technically HD but by the time you set everything to low and are
running on a 1080p screen so you're dealing with interpolation 720p doesn't
look very HD at all we'll see how it goes here's the results so far with the
I3 2105 that's 20.0 not 200 under crisis 2
by the way Witcher 2 runs pretty terad
on the uh 2105 as
well it actually doesn't look bad through the camera but I assure you it's
not good combat in particular is uh
pretty choppy you can see the frame rate up
there ah it's been a while since I've run Mafia 2 as a benchmark so here's the
settings I'm using all low 720p good stuff and then I'm just going
to use the uh oh I got to restart the game here I am in the middle of
benchmarking my cat wants me to throw his toy for him so I will this is his
toy so now he'll go get
it sometimes he brings it back sometimes he knocks it down the
stairs and chases it on his own here's the big finale in the Mafia 2
Benchmark where's the explosion oh never mind I missed
it okay well there you go there's the results it's been a while since I've
benched Black Ops but I figure it's appropriate it's fairly mainstream game
this is a very mainstream sort of platform onboard Graphics all that stuff
check out this guy's shirt yeah yeah we're not even getting
like fantastic frame rates even so but
yeah we'll see how it compares to the Apu for to come so here I'm
configurating configurating configuring the integrated Graphics uh forcing
multim monitor I'm setting everything at the highest I've got 8 gigs of system
memory so I have no problem with 2 gigs on the uh frame buffer so let's see how
this goes so now that I'm in Windows with my 6670 I can see that Crossfire is
enabled with the Apu if I go into the hardware you can see I got my
6550d my hyper memory I got my oh where'
it Go 6550d linked adapter built by oh
okay that's funny it said 6670 just a minute
ago components
display 6600 series there we go okay
good enough so let's run some games now I want to take a short break in my
testing to show you guys something this is the Aspen canned Benchmark for Dirt 3
I'm running it on the 669 6670 with the
Apu running in crossfire X mode now check out these frame rates so I'll wait
till the race is actually running but when I ran it at 720p low settings it
destroyed the core I 321 I mean that makes sense we've got a dedicated
graphics card in there and you but you can see here I am
still still
demolishing the 2105 and I've actually
turned the game all the way up to 1080p
all high details now so you can see that it's much sharper looking there's a very
noticeable difference I mean it looks like a racing game from you know 8 years
ago when you turn the uh when you turn the graphics way down whereas now it
looks like a Mod racing game with uh pretty decent Graphics so that's uh
that's the difference it makes I just wanted to show you guys that actually
the benefit is not necessarily in terms of frame rates from adding these
Technologies but actually also in terms of dramatically improved graphical
quality you can see it's still going to outperform it look at that okay guys so
I'm doing my final run with Dirt 3 with
the A8 3850 so I'm ready to present my
results pretty much so I'll talk about everything so far then I'll show you
guys the results of this one so I've got my 6670 here I've got my corai 3 over
here and let's have a look at the results so this is my onboard Graphics
showdown at 1280 by 720 I'm using all
modern games so yes you're going to see poor scores here but the reality of it
is these are designed to be run with modern gaming graphics cards not with
modern onboard so you know they all did their best however I would like you to
notice something right away so first of all here's the core I 321 105 we have
for the most part not very playable frame rates we're at that best around
that 30 FPS range and then in Dirt 3 we managed to get well over it whereas with
the A8 3850 you can see we're for the most part
well into that playable range the exception being Mafia 2 so that is the
difference in performance between the core I 32105 and the A8 3850 in games so
this is at a very GPU bound resolution but we're looking at more than double
the performance in Dirt 3 double the performance in Bad Company 2 almost
double in crisis 2 Double in The Witcher 2 more than double in Mafia 2 and um
double again in Call of Duty Black Ops so that is the performance Delta between
the I3 2105 and the 83850 now this was a
bit of um uh an error on my part but at
such low graphical settings we're not seeing much of a benefit from this
additional graphics card so what I wanted to show you guys was yes it does
consistently beat the non- graphics carded version especially see where
we're GPU bound it absolutely blows it away it adds about double again the
performance of a core I 32105 where we're not GPU bound anymore and we're
running into CPU bound scenarios it doesn't make much of a difference see
this so here in crisis 2 it makes quite a big difference as well so what I did
was I actually ran um grid grid 3 Dirt 3
at 1080p all high with zero anti-aliasing and I got about 60 FPS so
you can see that we only lose about half of the frame rate versus running it on
all low 720p however when we take that same game
and we run it with the A8 3850 which is what I just did we get
29.7 so you can see that when we are GPU
bound the crossfire configuration can
perform up to double of the 3850 on itself which is in
turn pretty consistently about double a COR 32105 so the reality of it is the
CPU component is not as powerful as a 2105 in pure um especially dual threaded
benchmarks it's just not even going to come close but the A8 GPU just or the
Radeon HD 6550d just destroys the Intel HD
graphics 3000 so thank you for checking out my video on AMD's latest A8 Apu
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