Tuesday, 17 February 2009

Microsoft Windows performance reviews



GMA X3000
A review conducted in April 2007 by The Tech Report determined that the GMA X3000 had performance comparable to the Nvidia GeForce 6150.[75] During that review the GMA X3000 was unable to run the PC games Battlefield 2 and Oblivion.[76] However, the ExtremeTech review found that games which aren't as graphically demanding, such as Sims 2 and Civilization 4, "look good" when the GMA X3000 is used to run them.[77]
Reviews performed by The Tech Report, by ExtremeTech and by Anandtech all concluded that the AMD's Radeon X1250 integrated graphics solutions based on the AMD 690G chipset was a better choice than the GMA X3000 based on the G965 chipset, especially when considering 3D gaming performance and price.[75][78][79] Updated drivers have since been released which might have significantly altered those conclusions.
GMA X3500
In a review performed by Register Hardware in December 2007,[11] author Leo Waldock argued that because the GMA X3500 is not capable of running any PC game that requires DirectX 10, the addition of DirectX 10 support to the GMA X3500 was "irrelevant".[80] During that same review, the GMA X3500 was used to run the PC games Crysis and FEAR Extraction Point, where it was able to render only 4 and 14 frames per second respectively for each game.[81] In the end the review concluded that overall the X3500 made "minimal advances" over the GMA X3000.[80]
GMA X4500
In a review published in May 2008, the GMA X4500 showed a superior game performance to the lowest end 1-year-older GeForce 8400M G dedicated graphics card, while losing to the still low-end GeForce 8400M GS with a slower CPU.

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