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).
| 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 GDDR5 AMD 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 |
| 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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Stupid AMD (though the green camp is no better).
I'm curious why you would bother testing mobile graphics cards, and leave out the 1366x768 resolution... it's only the MOST COMMON resolution on "main stream" notebooks... who cares about 1280x720?
Thanks
Harison.