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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)

3DMark 06

3DMark 06 presents a cautionary tale of marketing. As seen above, the AMD 690G can post playable framerates where the Intel G965 falls to its knees. However, the G965 features Shader Model 3 support, while the G690 uses Shader Model 2. This didn’t help Intel in the game tests, but 3DMark recognizes the difference and rewards the Intel G965.

3DMark 06 Results

Intel's integrated graphics win by a landslide but in the final analysis, it is just another confirmation of Kyle Bennett's original concerns about the valididty and relevance of this and other synthetic benchmarks.

3DMark shows the opposite of the game benchmarks. Ed. note: There is always the question of whether the benchmark is tailored to a specific platform or whether the platform is tuned to giving high scores in a "static" synthetic benchmark. Cheats and optimizations have rendered most syntheetic benchmarks rather useless over the course of the past few years and the 180 degree dichotomy between the synthetic and real world scenarios once again underscore the vulnerability of any narrowly defined benchmark.

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