First Radeon HD 8000M GPU Benchmarked

J. Dzhugashvili writes "As Slashdot noted earlier this week, AMD has a new line of mid-range Radeon GPUs aimed at notebooks. The chips are based on the Graphics Core Next microarchitecture, and they're slated to show up in systems early next year. While the initial report was limited to specification details, the first review of the Radeon HD 8790M is now out, complete with benchmark data from the latest games. The 8790M is about 35% smaller than its 7690M predecessor but offers substantially better gaming performance across the board. Impressively, the new chip has similar power draw as the outgoing model under load, and its idle power consumption is slightly lower. Notebook makers should have no problems making the switch. However, it is worth noting that this new mobile GPU exhibits some of the same frame latency spikes observed on desktop Radeons, including in games that AMD itself has sponsored."

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Even AMD thinks AMD CPUs suck

[Guspaz]

The subject might look like I'm trying to troll, but... I'm actually referring to TFA. AMD sent the TechReport reviewer a Gigabyte Z77 motherboard with an Intel i7-3770K processor. So it says on the first page of TFA.

AMD... sent an Intel processor... to review an AMD GPU...

Talk about lack of faith in your own products.

Re:Even AMD thinks AMD CPUs suck

[zenlessyank]

I believe AMD licenses its technology to Intel since the Itanium sucked. Intel might know how to fabricate the 'engine' better, but AMD DESIGNS better engines. So AMD is getting paid whether it is an Intel or AMD proc.

Re:Even AMD thinks AMD CPUs suck

[Anonymous Coward]

Actually they cross license.

Re:Even AMD thinks AMD CPUs suck

[Rockoon]

Anyone who has spent some time listing their alternatives within any sort of normal budget margin knows that there will be a lot of AMD chips under consideration and very few Intel chips under consideration.