AMD 890GX SB850 Chipset Debut: Phenom II X6 Ready

Name: AMD 890GX SB850 Chipset Debut: Phenom II X6 Ready - Page 10
Brand: AMD

by Marco Chiappetta — Tuesday, March 02, 2010, 12:01 AM EDT

For our next set of tests, we moved on to some in-game tests with Enemy Territory: Quake Wars running in its High Quality mode, at a resolution of 1280x1024. Then we move on to some multi-media tests using a handful of videos, encoded using MPEG 2 or H.264 to see how the Intel HD Graphics core handles the workload.

High-Resolution Gaming: Enemy Territory: Quake Wars

Taxing the GPU

Our higher-resolution Enemy Territory:Quake Wars benchmark had the AMD 890GX / Radeon HD 4290 IGP performing just slightly better than the Intel HD Graphics of the Core i5-661, but well ahead of the older 785G.

Max Payne 1080P HD Trailer, Windows Media Player

We played back an assortment of multimedia files on the AMD 890GX to assess its video-playback performance and were pleased with the results. Regardless of the file type or CODEC used, CPU utilization remained very low and image quality was excellent.

Tags: AMD, Radeon, Phenom, Athlon, Chipset, AM3, IGP

Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com