The AMD 790GX platform includes the ATI3300 IGP chipset that promises good performance in all cases, either when you play games or enjoy video playback. Since the tested motherboards are identical at this point, what you will read below applies to both.

We removed the MSI 7600GT Silent card from out test PC and connected the VGA cable to the motherboard. All tests were performed with the ATI Catalyst 8.9 installed.

The ATI Catalyst panel gives us more information about the HD3300 series

As we can see the 55nm ATI HD3300 series have 40 unified Shaders, support DirectX10 and have a 32bit bus width.

We left the memory size at "Auto" under Windows. Both motherboards have 128MB on board. In case memory requirements exceed that point, the graphics engine will use system resources from the system.

We try to test the ATI HD3300 under both gaming and Video playback. For all the gaming tests, we used the following settings at the ATI Catalyst 8.9 control panel: