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LOSTCIRCUITS	SHORTCUTS: Integrated Graphics AMD's 690G / Radeon 1250 Platform Intel G965 / GMA X3000 Platform Test Environment / Pricing DVD Performance Gaming: F.E.A.R. Gaming: S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 3DMark '06 Vista Performance Index Vista DVD and DRM Storage Subsystem Final Words Give Us Some Feedback on this Review
AMD' 690G vs Intel's 965G Revolte of the Integrated Graphics
(Joe Freund, September 4, 2007)

Storage

There is certainly more to system performance than graphics. One of the other key areas affected by the chipset is storage performance. In the past other vendors have had trouble matching the hard drive interface and USB performance of Intel’s chipsets. Sisoft Sandra offers some handy benchmarks to see of AMD’s 690G can keep up with the G965. Benchmarks were run on identical Western Digital WD2500KS 250GB SATA2 hard drives with 16 MB cache connected to the chipset’s SATA2 controller, and on a Toshiba MK4032GAX 2.5” HD in an external enclosure connected to a USB 2.0 port on each motherboard.

SANDRA Storage Results

The AMD 690G easily keeps pace with Intel’s G965, and even comes in slightly ahead in some instances.

AMD G690 Transfer Rates

Intel G965 Transfer Rates

AMD G690 USB Transfer Rates

Intel G965 USB Transfer Rates

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