BUT the power efficiency is amazing! and thats with the power hungry HD4870 too!
Be sure that you are looking at the result
with the GPU for the fairest comparison. Either way, these CPUs continue to become more power efficient with each new release, and it's great to see.
Where can I get more information regarding "acceleration for DVD upscaling with the help of the IGP"? It is said Intel doesn't offer this, but perhaps ATI's 57XX does, maybe NVIDIA GX300 will in the future?
At current time, Intel pushes the latest version of Windows Media Player for upscaling DVDs, although I didn't have time during testing to take a deep look at it. None of the popular high-end players on the market, such as PowerDVD support the upscaling on the IGP at this time. I did happen to ask CyberLink, and they said they're always looking to add new technologies like that, but didn't state whether or not we'd actually see it. All of the upscaling done up to this point, regardless of program, is done on the CPU, not GPU, at least where Clarkdale is concerned.
There is none... I wouldn't expect DX11 support on Intel's GPUs for quite a while.
In terms of power consumption, video performance, DX10/DX11, how does Intel HD IGP compare to ATI 57XX series?
Unfortunately, I didn't think to single out the IGP in our power consumption tests. You can see in our power consumption page, though, the differences between both the IGP and HD 4870 at idle. I wish I could tell you how much difference the HD 57xx would make at idle... I wish I had tested this out. I'm out of town until next week for CES, but I can test this out when I return if you are still interested.
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using the GA-MA790GP-DS4H - DDR2 memory and ATI Radeon HD 3300
The reason is because we use what AMD sends us at the time, and for the most part, it's just not feasible to re-test components all of the time, and we can't just test each new CPU on a new motherboard because that's going to inevitably skew our results. I am planning on revamping our CPU test suite in the next few weeks, which will involve re-benchmarking all of today's relevant processors. We'll make sure that a DDR3 AMD board will be our base for that platform.
For what it's worth... memory bandwidth is not that important as far as I'm concerned. 10K is going to be plenty for most people, unless you have really specific needs.