Phenom X3 8750 reviewed
Right after AMD officially release the Phenom X3, Korean website BrainBox have posted an review of Phenom X3 8750. Pervious reports from TGDaily said that Phenom X3 is expensive, even few bucks more than a Phenom X4 9750. But in the review (in Korean) X3 8750 performs quite well. Google translation is not good, but you can still reads the numbers from here.
Other reviews:
PCWatch (in Japanese)
AMD 790GX spy pics leaked
Unika’s 790GX spy pic have been leaked on the net. Different from what we saw in Donanimhaber, the board is still an ES and without a cooler. What’s more, it got a integrated memory module, for the integrated HD 3300.
The board have two PCIe slot, and if Fudzilla is right, then the board can have a special hybrid 3-way crossfire with two limited GFX cards.
RS780D 3-way Hybrid CrossFireX have its limitations…
FUD reports RS780D, the AMD 790GX supports a new hybrid corssfire, can CF with IGP and two graphics card, here is their report：
“AMD’s upcoming RS780D or 790GX chipset will add support for a new type of hybrid CrossFire, as not only will the onboard graphics work in conjunction with a graphics card, but it will work with a pair of graphics cards for some very interesting CrossFireX setups.
We’re not sure how much of a performance boost you’d get from a setup like this, but an extra boost for free is never wrong. Well, free is a relative term here, as we’re not sure how many people would consider this platform when it launches, as starting out with integrated graphics and then moving up to one and then two graphics cards seems like an odd concept.”
Core 2 Duo E7300 VS Phenom X3 8600, Who wins?
As an mid-end product, Intel‘s Core 2 Duo E7300 will facing its rival, AMD’s Phenom X3 8600 in the near future. So who will win the up-coming mid range war? China-based website IT168.com has posted an comparison review, featuring E7200, E7300, and a Phenom X3 8600.The full review is here, and here is our highlights.
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Official: No more discrete chipset from NVIDIA
From now on, NVIDIA will only focus on chipsets with integrated graphics, no more discrete chipset. The 750a and 780a will be the first mainstream and high end nForce mobo with integrated graphics.
This announcement means NVIDIA want to fortify their VGA card market. In the past time on nForce board you can run ATI or other company’s VGA card, but after 750a/780a no one will do this: because NVIDIA have paper launched Hybrid SLI. No nForce user want to disable Geforce Boost and Hybrid Power by buying ATI or other company’s card. So it is a win-win situation: users got more performance, save more power, NVIDIA got more bankroll.
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AMD roadmap updated with B3 Phenoms
AMD finally fixed the annoying TLB bug in their Phenoms and pushing it out again with stepping B3. Phenoms with B3 stepping will be called 9850, 9750, 9650, 9550 and 9150. All of them will hit the market within two weeks, according to Digitimes.
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Sapphire transform RV670Pro into a budget card
Finally, Sapphire rolls out their HD 3690(which we have some posts before).
RV770 is coming out in late Q2, NVIDIA begin to shrink G92
According to Digitimes, AMD’s latest innovation, RV770 is going to debut in late Q2. The Latest info said the card will have 480SP, is the first VGA card using GDDR5 graphic memory. The product lineup is pretty like the current HD 3800 series, all the mid to high end product of next-gen is based on RV770, their only difference will be their frequency and the memory size.
On NVIDIA’s side, they are now shrinking G92 to 55nm, codenamed G92b. The shrink not only because they need a new product to fight with RV770 but also they want to lower the G92’s production cost. As NVIDIA’s next gen flagship, GT200’s detail information is still unknown.
[Driver Update] ATI Catalyst 8.2
Performance improvements with this release of Catalyst™ includes Company of Heroes DX10 frame rates increasing as much as 20% across all of the ATI Radeon™ HD 2×00 series of products and on all ATI Radeon™ HD 3×00 series of products. These performance improvements are even larger (up to 30%) for CrossFire™ configurations.
AMD/Intel dual core CPU shootout: Intel wins
Today XbitLab released a comparison of AMD/Intel dual core processors. The article is mainly focus on CPU’s price and performance, also the article shows the 45nm Wolfdale is quite powerful. Here is some highlights:
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HD 3690 128bit/256MB got reviewed
It is a HD 3690, don’t be fooled by that eight memory chips.
HD 3690, based on RV670 but only for $124. The price is cheap enough but how about the performance? more than we can expected.
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