Oh what a difference moving a bottleneck makes. I ran at the lowest quality settings at 1024 x 768. Zotac's NG-ION is actually a bit faster than the E-350, implying some driver/threading efficiencies as we're most definitely CPU bound on these low end parts.ĭawn of War II is an RTS title that ships with a built in performance test. NVIDIA's ION does a lot better but it'll take a second generation ION to hang with the E-350. You'll see a number of games where compatibility is a problem for the D510. The bare bones Atom D510 won't even run DAO. Luckily for AMD, DAO happens to be more of an outlier among current games as you're about to see. Our Dragon Age: Origins benchmark is quite CPU bound here and thus the E-350's Radeon HD 6310 doesn't look all that powerful. Our benchmark is a FRAPS runthrough of our character through a castle. We ran at 1024 x 768 with graphics and texture quality both set to low. The third/first person RPG is well threaded and is influenced both by CPU and GPU performance. Let's get to the numbers.ĭAO has been a staple of our integrated graphics benchmark for some time now. Despite its stature, the E-350 can easily compete with much more expensive Intel solutions when it comes to 3D gaming. The E-350 still isn't enough to play all modern games, but it's what I would consider an acceptable entry level GPU. The only problem is you generally have to spend around $100 - $200 on a CPU to get what I'd consider the bare minimum you should get from integrated graphics. The HD Graphics, HD Graphics 20 parts we've been given are all relatively competitive. The past two years have shown us that Intel is starting to take GPU performance seriously. With both AMD and Intel now taking processor graphics seriously, the quality and performance of what we get "for free" should go up tremendously in the coming years. I want to say that lately we've seen a resurgence in the importance of integrated graphics, but I don't know that it ever was truly important. The Radeon HD 6310: Very Good for the Money This smells like a CPU limitation, in which case it would mean that AMD didn't skimp at all when it came to the E-350's GPU.
the bandwidth limitations of the PCIe x4 slot is difficult to say. How much of this is due to the performance of the E-350 vs.
Other than Modern Warfare 2 and BioShock 2, there's little performance difference between the 5570 and the 5450 when paired with the AMD E-350.
The Radeon HD 5570 results were a bit unexpected. This is unsurprising as the two have very similar compute capabilities and only differ in the amount of available memory bandwidth since the Radeon HD 5450 doesn't have to share with a neighboring CPU. With a couple of exceptions (World of Warcraft, HAWX), there's no real benefit to a discrete Radeon HD 5450 over the integrated Radeon HD 6310. Curious to see if there would be any benefit to plugging in a faster GPU I decided to try a Radeon HD 54 in the slot: MSI's E350IA-E45 exposes the former by the way of a physical PCIe x16 slot, although electrically it's only a x4. There are another four lanes courtesy of the Hudson FCH. Future incarnations of Fusion will blur the line between the CPU and GPU but for now, this is the division.īranching off the E-350 APU are four PCIe lanes. The GPU shares the same 64-bit DDR3 memory interface as the CPU, but it does not have any access to the CPU's caches. It has a total of 80 VLIW-5 SPs running at 500MHz. Intel's Atom could use a more capable GPU, but what about Brazos? The E-350's GPU is branded the AMD Radeon HD 6310. Discrete GPUs on Brazos: CPU and PCIe Bound
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