Way to go AMD

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Now how often do you hear of something like this happening? Basically AMD demo'd their new APU vs an Intel setup and got much better results. Anandtech then found that AMD was using old drivers for the Intel rig. So AMD gave them full access to both machines and let them run whatever tests they wanted. The AMD still came out roughly 40% ahead of the Intel in the end.

At this point we had an issue. The IE9 benchmarks AMD was showing off weren’t an accurate comparison of the two architectures. While valid for the only driver revision supported on this particular Core i5 notebook, the scores weren’t valid for a Zacate vs. Core i5 architecture comparison. AMD wanted to make sure there was no confusion about the GPU performance potential of Zacate so it allowed us to install whatever we wanted on both systems to validate the GPU performance we had seen.

Take a moment to realize exactly what just happened here. In an effort to convince us (and you) that it had nothing to hide and didn’t deliberately attempt to stack the deck, AMD gave us full access to the Zacate platform to do whatever we wanted. AMD wanted us to be completely comfortable with the Zacate comparison.
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That demo is completely mindblowing. AMD are finally making real use of the ATI acquisition. Vendors will be able to ship netbooks without the need for a discreet gpu solution like ION. It'll save them money and save power consumption. Intel still have yet to prove they can produce a single noteworthy integrated graphics product, ray traced wolfenstein demos notwithstanding :p. This is a major AMD win.
 
thats great news, I always enjoy competition, and AMD has been slipping behind as of late
 
SharkBait said:
What about Sandy bay? :confused:
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Somehow I dont think Intel is in the habit of lending not yet released chips to AMD for demo purposes ;) But I dont recall seeing any Sandy Bridge demos yet, so I have no clue how it will compare to Zacate.
 
Very impressive of AMD, they really took an open approach to this, and it kind of gives us (the consumer) the idea that AMD knows their product is the bees-knees. +1000 to AMD, lets hope they start fighting back at intel :D
 
SharkBait said:
LoL, that's the one.

All I am saying, is they are comparing new AMD tech vs old Intel tech. Obviously AMD will win. They have to compare Zacate vs Sandy Bridge (though it is desktop and not notebook)...

Sandy Bridge Preview
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That preview bases most of its results on the i5 2400, a 95W part. Cant be used to compare to the Zacate, an 18W part. So they went with the best they could find: a notebook version of the current i5.

Cant believe I missed that preview :confused: Thanks for the link though.
 
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