AMD A8-3800 Llano processor ... how good is it really ?

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besides guru3d review i cant find any other sites that show the true power of the onboard gpu?

they say its gpu is like a ati :confused:5500? how true is this ?:confused:
 
This is a massively in depth review and for the most part I trust these guys to be objective.

Link: http://www.anandtech.com/print/4476

Through note to take advantage of this as pointed out in the article you need fast 1866 MHZ RAM. Otherwise it seems to perform more or less at the same level as the intel HD 3000 on sandy bridge.
 
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MattyW said:
This is a massively in depth review and for the most part I trust these guys to be objective.

Link: http://www.anandtech.com/print/4476

Through note to take advantage of this as pointed out in the article you need fast 1866 MHZ RAM. Otherwise it seems to perform more or less at the same level as the intel HD 3000 on sandy bridge.
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thanks , that pretty much sums everything up i wanted to know :>

looking at it to build a decent rig for the wife , need to get ready for diablo 3 and her 4400+ and 7600gt just wont cut it lol. mite just upgrade the gpu to a third hand 9800gtx or something. thnks for the quick reply
 
MattyW said:
This is a massively in depth review and for the most part I trust these guys to be objective.

Link: http://www.anandtech.com/print/4476

Through note to take advantage of this as pointed out in the article you need fast 1866 MHZ RAM. Otherwise it seems to perform more or less at the same level as the intel HD 3000 on sandy bridge.
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That's not accurate, it is MUCH faster than the HD3000, sometimes between 2-3 times as fast.

From the link you posted

If you're building an entry level gaming PC and have to rely solely on integrated graphics, it's clear that Llano is the only solution on the market today. You easily get 2x the frame rates of Intel's Core i3-2105 and can use that extra headroom to increase resolution, quality or sometimes both.
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HJF said:
That's not accurate, it is MUCH faster than the HD3000, sometimes between 2-3 times as fast.

From the link you posted
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Well to be honest I stopped reading here..

CPU bound gaming performance is also an area where the A8 falls behind the i3. Here you're looking at a 25 - 50% advantage for the i3-2100/2105
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As I already knew the GPU was better but since games are becoming more and more CPU dependant I felt that the more impressive CPU would balance out the GPU {and also note the i3's are dual core and still managed to outperform the A8 in CPU related gaming by quite a large margin also i3 has no turbo boost and the A8 does}, at any rate I posted the article for draconia2 I am sure if he was intrested he would have read it till the end, through thanks for pointing it out.
 
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even though the i series wins everything . It would be blasphemy as this is a amd house :p

even got ATI /gigabyte shirts from lans in durban ages ago lol
 
MattyW said:
Well to be honest I stopped reading here..



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As I already knew the GPU was better but since games are becoming more and more CPU dependant I felt that the more impressive CPU would balance out the GPU {and also note the i3's are dual core and still managed to outperform the A8 in CPU related gaming by quite a large margin also i3 has no turbo boost and the A8 does}, at any rate I posted the article for draconia2 I am sure if he was intrested he would have read it till the end, through thanks for pointing it out.
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such things would need reading up to the end, its a lot of cash to splurr on a piece of hardware so you have to make sure what you are getting is what you want/need and if its really worth it or not. Also what the budget is you are looking at :)
 
Draconia2 said:
such things would need reading up to the end, its a lot of cash to splurr on a piece of hardware so you have to make sure what you are getting is what you want/need and if its really worth it or not. Also what the budget is you are looking at :)
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Matty Didn't read his own link. Those 3 tests are not testing the graphics but are designed to test only the cpu limited part of things. If you look at the actual gaming benchmarks the I3 loses everytime and by a lot as well.

If you plan on using integrated graphics...

If you're building an entry level gaming PC and have to rely solely on integrated graphics, it's clear that Llano is the only solution on the market today. You easily get 2x the frame rates of Intel's Core i3-2105 and can use that extra headroom to increase resolution, quality or sometimes both. The performance advantage is just one aspect of what Llano offers in this department. You do also get better overall game compatibility, DX11 and GPU compute support although the latter is still missing that killer app.
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I have a quad core i7 sandy bridge notebook and the integrated HD3000 is not that great, it even messes up textures in certain 3d apps I use where I have to force on the Nvidia GPU because the HD3000 can't display things properly.

If you are going to use a dedicated gpu things swing quite heavily in intels favour though.
 
If you want to build a mainly HTPC-focused budget computer Llano is the best option atm. You can go just about passive cooling, no graphics card needed, and have enough power to run games at a fairly low resolution. The HD3000 (iirc) only works with 2600 and even then it's slower on the graphical side than Llano. Otherwise you get hd2000 which is much slower.
 
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