For our discrete GPU benchmarks, we have split them up into the different GPU configurations we have tested. We have access to both MSI GTX 770 Lightning GPUs and ASUS reference HD 7970s, for SLI and Crossfire respectively. These tests are all run at 1080p and maximum settings, reporting the average and minimum frame rates.  Due to the limitations of the Bay Trail-D Celeron SoCs and their PCIe lanes, we cannot obtain numbers for these devices.

dGPU Benchmarks: 1x MSI GTX770 Lightning

F1 2013

F1 2013: 1080p Max, 1x GTX 770

F1 2013: 1080p Max, 1x GTX 770

Bioshock Infinite

Bioshock Infinite: 1080p Max, 1x GTX 770

Bioshock Infinite: 1080p Max, 1x GTX 770

Tomb Raider

Tomb Raider: 1080p Max, 1x GTX 770

Tomb Raider: 1080p Max, 1x GTX 770

Sleeping Dogs

Sleeping Dogs: 1080p Max, 1x GTX 770

Sleeping Dogs: 1080p Max, 1x GTX 770

Company of Heroes 2

Company Of Heroes 2: 1080p Max, 1x GTX 770

Company Of Heroes 2: 1080p Max, 1x GTX 770

Battlefield 4

Battlefield 4: 1080p Max, 1x GTX 770

Battlefield 4: 1080p Max, 1x GTX 770

IGP Benchmarks: Synthetic dGPU Benchmarks with ASUS HD7970
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  • serpretetsky - Thursday, May 29, 2014 - link

    I'm not sure I understand the power chart on page 2. Is the title correct? Power difference? So the numbers we are seeing are power differentials between idle and load and not absolute values?
  • casteve - Friday, May 30, 2014 - link

    Ian uses a 1250W PSU in this setup. So, absolute value is pretty meaningless when your system idles down in the low efficiency (and high slope) part of the power supply's curve. The delta power part at least provides an idea of what's going on.
  • jospoortvliet - Sunday, June 1, 2014 - link

    Yet idle power is quite important - cpu's are idle most of the time...
  • coburn_c - Thursday, May 29, 2014 - link

    There's your future of AMD. Scaling up Jaguar will fix their code/module problems and improve their perf/watt. There is certainly no future in their big cores.
  • rootheday3 - Thursday, May 29, 2014 - link

    Ivy Bridge gt1 was 6 eus; bay trail is 4 eus.
  • jvp - Friday, May 30, 2014 - link

    What is missing in this review is that some Intel processors have stripped down instruction sets. Like the Celeron J1900 with which the Athlon 5350 is compared as direct competitor.

    I'm also missing tests about performance when using virtual machines, and hardware accelerated encryption. These are area's that are becoming more and more important for systems.
  • R3MF - Friday, May 30, 2014 - link

    this is lovely, thanks, but how long before we get beema in socket AM1?
  • R3MF - Friday, May 30, 2014 - link

    in addition, do i understand correctly that:
    kabini is 28nm TSMC, whereas
    beema is 28nm GF
  • plonk420 - Friday, May 30, 2014 - link

    thank you thank you THANK YOU for including i3-4300 series on the dGPU page! i've been wondering how they stand up to gaming on a budget as i've helped do 2 builds in the last couple months for the first time in years!
  • Icehawk - Friday, May 30, 2014 - link

    I'm with prior posters - testing these low end machines with current games is all well and good but also unlikely to happen in real life. Can these handle games I'd be more likely to want to play on a low power device like TF2 or Diablo 3? NO CLUE.

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