jdwii :
gamerk316 :
^^ Frankly, not impressed. Looking at the first chart, a combined CPU/GPU upgrade is only buying a few FPS at low settings. Granted, AMD still crushes intel in the iGPU deparment.
Second chart shows Intel still winning on CPU performance head to head by a decent margin. Not shocked in the least.
Third one shows Kaveri starts to reach max potential at 1866MHz RAM. Some gains going faster, but for most of the tests, <3 FPS gains from that point onward. More likely secondary improvements at that point, rather then the GPU still being starved. Clearly no issues with Kaveri getting starved on DDR3.
I think most here are/were expecting a bigger improvement then those charts indicate.
Also FYI: Source?
But...But 30% more IGPU power lol if anything my estimates where to much WTF Amd. 512 GCN cores really? look at the memory test as predicted the memory bandwidth is bottlenecking the GPU to much.
Not really. Benchmark showed some gains going up from 1833, but for the most part, you don't see large increases after that point. So at 1833, you aren't significantly RAM bottlenecked.
You can say 30% more GPU power, but if the CPU that drives it is the bottleneck, you won't get to use it. Which could very well be what we're seeing. On the game side tests:
(Note: Review is down, but image links are still up. Someone may want to mirror before they get taken down. Just change the id="xxxxx" up and down to go through the images; they're sequential)
Unigene Heaven Pro 4.0:
Richland: 51
Kaveri: 53.6
% increase: 4.85%
Alien Vs Predator
Richland: 51.2
Kaveri: 56.3
% increase: 9.06%
Batman: Arkham City
Richland: 56
Kaveri: 60 [Possible game limit?]
% increase: 6.67%
Just Cause 2 - Concrete Jungle
Richland: 51.5
Kaveri: 59.4
% increase: 13.3%
Hitman: Absolution
Richland: 40.8
Kaveri: 47.7
% increase: 14.47%
Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition
Richland: 55
Kaveri: 62
% increase: 11.29%
Average %Increase:
9.94%
So yeah, 15% looks mighty generous, based on actual benchmarks. Nevermind the fact AMD told Pudget Systems to take down the review, which is a giant warning signal that they might be spot on.
EDIT
I stress these are combined CPU/GPU scores, not just CPU improvements. Two of the tests (Batman and STIV) may also be hard locked at 60 and 62 FPS, resulting in understated score [IDK if these FPS are limited for these games or not]. Removing them doesn't change the numbers much though.