AMD's 785G Chipset - Revolutionary or Evolutionary?
by Gary Key on August 4, 2009 5:00 AM EST- Posted in
- Motherboards
WinRAR 3.9b5 x64
This benchmark compresses our AT workload consisting of a main folder that contains 954MB of data spread across 28 files in 15 subfolders. The result is a file approximately 829MB in size.
WinRAR loves processor speed and bandwidth improvements. Our two DDR3 systems finish in first. The 785G DDR3 platform holds a 3% advantage over its DDR2 sibling and 5% advantage over the G41 combination.
iTunes 8 x64
We import the album Tommy by The Who to our disk in WAV format. The directory consists of 25 songs totaling 751MB. We then convert this music collection to an AAC format using the iTune Plus option.
Umm, normally this application only responds to CPU speed but our AMD platform holds a 7% advantage in that area so these results are interesting to say the least. Could it be that since Apple’s current products run on Intel processors that this application is highly optimized for the Core 2 series. Regardless of the reason, the G41 setup holds a 9% advantage over our 785G platform.
Blender 2.49 x64
We complete a full render operation on our Flying Squirrel image utilizing this very popular open source program.
Our 785G platform is 4% faster than the G41 setup. Blender typically responds well to CPU speed with the 7% core speed advantage favoring the AMD system.
Cinema 4D R11 x64
Cinema 4D R11 is one of our favorite programs to create high-end 3D images and animations. We track the time it takes to render a swimming pool layout.
We could not get Maxon’s premier application to work with the current Intel Win7 driver set so there is no score to report here.
LightWave 3D 9.6 x64
Another popular 3D rendering program is Lightwave 3D 9.6. In this test, we time the rendering of a single frame from an office building animation. The time to render the full scene is approximately four and a half hours.
The G41 platform slides in with a 2% advantage over its 785G counterpart.
Overall, the 785G platform can be utilized for a variety of applications, including 3D rendering where the graphics core is not of primary importance during rendering. In this case, we would suggest a Phenom II based processor along with DDR3 memory for best results.
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HelToupee - Tuesday, August 4, 2009 - link
How's Linux driver support for video decoding coming along for AMD? Last I checked, it was supported in the closed drivers, but none of the players support it yet.Poor Linux support is a deal breaker for me (and probably 10's of other people ;) )
Finally - Wednesday, August 5, 2009 - link
[quote]Poor Linux support is a deal breaker for me (and probably 10's of other people ;) [/quote]If I was Google, I would ask you:
Did you mean "10 other people"?
sprockkets - Tuesday, August 4, 2009 - link
Same here. Buying a Zotac 9300 ITX board with an Intel chip. VDPAU ftw.mczak - Tuesday, August 4, 2009 - link
IMHO, the biggest drawback with G41 (and G43) isn't even mentioned - you lose two ram slots (some boards still have 4 but then you can equip all 4 only with single-sided ram, so useless). Hence this limits you for all practical purposes to 4GB (2x2GB) of ram. (The chipset could take 2 4GB modules but for that price you could probably buy 2 G45 boards with 8 2 GB modules...)Spivonious - Tuesday, August 4, 2009 - link
Some other items...The G45 has the X4500HD, the G41 has the X4500. The G41 does not have hardware decoding for blu-ray movies.
flipmode - Tuesday, August 4, 2009 - link
Is that some kind of double negative? Maybe "fewer and fewer" or something? No biggie, it just caught my eye immediately :smile:Sharles - Tuesday, August 4, 2009 - link
The ICH7 chipset on my motherboard does have 1 PATA channel.Viditor - Tuesday, August 4, 2009 - link
Agreed...Gary, you need to correct your table at the index. ICH7 has 1 PATA (2 device) connetion.iamezza - Tuesday, August 4, 2009 - link
There are no graphs showing up on page 5R3MF - Tuesday, August 4, 2009 - link
AMD are making a lot of fuss about 785G/Tigris supporting their next generation Stream computing initiative (read: OpenCL), would you be able to ask them if they intend to provide this support to the 780G chipset too?This is important because the 780G will form the core of 2nd gen ultra-mobile platform previously known as Congo.
I would be very grateful if you would ask this question.
Thanks