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AMD 790GX Roundup

Oct 29,2008 0

14. ATI 3300 - Video Playback tests

 

Review Pages

1. About the AMD 790GX chipset
2. Gigabyte MA790GP-DS4H
3. BIOS - Gigabyte MA790GP-DS4H
4. Foxconn A7DA-S
5. BIOS - Foxconn A7DA-S
6. Tests Setup
7. Benchmarks - Everest Ultimate Edition, SiSoftware Sandra
8. Benchmarks - PCMark Vantage, SYSmark 2007 Preview
9. Benchmarks - MAXON CINEBENCH, x264 HD Benchmark, TMPGEnc 4 Xpress
10. Benchmarks - SuperPI, wPrime
11. Overclocking
12. The ATI 3300 IGP
13. ATI 3300 - Gaming results
14. ATI 3300 - Video Playback tests
15. Final words
16. Benchmarks - 3DMark06, Crysis v1.2, Unreal Tournament 3 SYSmark 2007 Preview

 

We used a variety of 3D Benchmarks as well as games. All the tests were done under Windows VISTA 32bit SP1.

First, let's see how the ATI HD3300 performs in the 3DMark software. The Gigabyte MA790GP-DS4H promises to offer 2800+ points at the specific benchmark. Well, this could be true only if you use the resolution of 1024x768...

In the the native resolution of 1280x1024, the ATI HD3300 scored 2203 points. Passing to the more demanding 3DMark Vantage ,we got 3062 points at 1024x768, while the 1280x1024 test failed to complete, since the frames/second were almost down to zero. That's an indication that the IGP limits gaming at 1024x768.

3DMark 05 (1024x768)
4721
3DMark 06 (1024x768)
2844
3DMark 06 (1280x1024)
2203
3DMark Vantage (1024x768)
3062
3DMark Vantage (1280x1024)
Not completed

Let's now pass to real life games and the question that you have probably in your mind...will this play Crysis or not? The answer is YES but under specific visual quality modes, as the following table shows.

We used the Crysis Benchmark Tool and set a variety of resolutions and image quality options. The Crysis game title should be very playable in case you are using 800x600xLow settings. The average performance was around 48FPS. Increasing the resolution has an affect on the overall performance. At 1024x768xLow the FPS dropped to 35FPS, while at 1280x1024xLow we got the low score of 24FPS (average). Increasing visual quality also resulted to a drop of 27FPS after moving from 800x600xLow to 800x600xMedium..

Crysis (DX9) v1.2.1
Average
800x600xLow
48,89
800x600xMedium
21,21
800x600xHigh
11,10
1024x768xLow
35,66
1024x768xMedium
15,77
1280x1024xLow
24,22
1280x1024xMedium
9,75

Passing to the latest Crysis WarHead game title we have more test results that should confirm the above findings. The 800x600 resolution under the "Performance mode" is much playable. After that point, the FPS drop as the resolution/rendering level increase.

Crysis WarHead (DX9)
640x480
800x600
1024x768
Performance
56,50
42,93
29,68
Mainstream
24,64
18,63
12,84
Gamer
11,28
8,85
6,43
Enthusiast
7,63
5,85
5,61

In the DirectX10 mode we see an even lower performance.

Crysis WarHead (DX10)
640x480
800x600
1024x768
Performance
42,94
33,86
23,88
Mainstream
18,26
14,02
9,88
Gamer
8,43
6,65
4,88
Enthusiast
5,82
4,57
3,21

Other less demanding DX9 games like Company Of Heroes are playable at 1024x768 with 36FPS after using the following visual settings:

The HL2 Episode 2 can also be played at 1024x768 as soon as you make some changes in the visual quality:

Summing up the above results, we can say that the ATI HD3300 can be used for games - even for 3D Person shooter games - provided that you will set the visual improvements low and adjust the game to a proper screen resolution ...Again I was surprised to see that an IGP can play Crysis even at 800x600 :-)

We still haven't forgotten the overclocking tests. With the AMD Overdrive we were able to push GPU core at 847MHz and the memory at 850MHz!


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Without making any voltage adjustments, the system was stable enough to perform a nine (9) round at Crysis. Let's see whether the increased core and memory clocks had an actual affect in the performance:

Crysis v1.2.1 (DX9)
Normal
Overclocked
% Gain
800x600xLow
48,89
56,20
14,95
800x600xMedium
21,21
23,81
12,26
800x600xHigh
11,10
12,21
10,05
1024x768xLow
35,66
41,07
15,17
1024x768xMedium
15,77
17,02
7,93
1280x1024xLow
24,22
27,73
14,49
1280x1024xMedium
9,75
11,46
17,54

It seems that overclocking will help you get higher frame/second at Crysis. While it's not a big difference, you will gain up to 8FPS at 800x600xLow and 6FPS at 1024x768xLow. When the rendering quality improves, the gain is as low as 2~3 FPS.

 

Review Pages

1. About the AMD 790GX chipset
2. Gigabyte MA790GP-DS4H
3. BIOS - Gigabyte MA790GP-DS4H
4. Foxconn A7DA-S
5. BIOS - Foxconn A7DA-S
6. Tests Setup
7. Benchmarks - Everest Ultimate Edition, SiSoftware Sandra
8. Benchmarks - PCMark Vantage, SYSmark 2007 Preview
9. Benchmarks - MAXON CINEBENCH, x264 HD Benchmark, TMPGEnc 4 Xpress
10. Benchmarks - SuperPI, wPrime
11. Overclocking
12. The ATI 3300 IGP
13. ATI 3300 - Gaming results
14. ATI 3300 - Video Playback tests
15. Final words
16. Benchmarks - 3DMark06, Crysis v1.2, Unreal Tournament 3 SYSmark 2007 Preview

 

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