ECS A790GXM-A Black Series Motherboard Review
3DMark Vantage
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3DMark Vantage measures Shader 4.0 (i.e., DirectX 10) performance. We couldn’t run this program with GeForce 8200 nor with AMD 780G even running the lowest video configuration possible, called “Entry Level.” Surprisingly enough we were able to run this program with AMD 790GX, which is impressive – this is the first time we’ve seen an on-board video solution being able to run this program. Below you can see the results for this chipset and for the add-on 64-bit Radeon HD 3450 installed on a PCI Express x16 slot from the reviewed motherboard with its on-board video disabled. When we enabled them to work together in parallel under CrossFire, however, the system rebooted. We tried several times to no avail.
We are presenting two results: the Entry score – which puts CPU performance for physics calculations into the equation – and the GPU score – which is the score of only the GPU.
As you can see the integrated graphics from AMD 790GX and Radeon HD 3450 achieved the same performance level on 3DMark Vantage, which is really impressive. AMD 790GX is not only the first integrated graphics chipset we’ve seen running 3DMark Vantage, but it also achieved the same performance as an entry-level add-on card.