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Native SATA 6Gbit/s Arrives - AMD 890GX Motherboards Examined

By Vincent Chang - 2 Mar 2010

Integrated Graphics Benchmarks

Integrated Graphics Benchmarks

Before we proceed to our usual motherboard testing on the next page, which uses a discrete graphics card, we take a detour to check out how the new Radeon HD 4290 integrated graphics fares against its predecessor in actual benchmarks. First off is Blu-ray playback testing:-

As expected, the UVD 2.0 on the Radeon HD 4290 may be a newer version, but it has little impact on CPU utilization during our Blu-ray playback test. Admittedly, these are rather low figures already so there's not much more room for improvement. Instead, it's the full hardware acceleration of HD playback (on MPEG 2 CODEC) that's the major change over version 1.0, together with dual-stream video decoding for those picture-in-picture extras without lagging the system.

On the gaming side of things, the integrated graphics on the AMD 890GX performed identically to the 790GX in both games here, which confirms what the specifications are telling us. Nothing has changed for the user.

 

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