The performance of onboard graphics solutions for the AMD platform has typically been better than the ones for Intel platforms. For example in all the game benchmarks, the performance of the boards wasn't a lot different. In Doom 3, at a resolu¬tion of 640 x 480 and ultra quality, the frame rates recorded were between 46.6 and 60.5. Of all the motherboards, the Jetway HA07-LF was the best overall performer. The AMD 790GX chipset is an even more powerful version of the famous 780G chipset. Doom 3 will also run fairly smoothly at 1024 x 768 with quality set to maxi¬mum. The HA07 board recorded 35.4 fps at this setting. The next best performer is the other AMD 790GX powered board - the Biostar TA790 GX XE.

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PCMark 05 didn't really show any big jump in numbers, so desktop performance was more or less the same .The graph¬ics and the memory handling were the only two areas that affected the overall PCMark 05 score. The only real bench¬mark other than the games that are affected is the file transfer test. The XFX MI-A78S-8209 took 213 seconds for copying a 4 GB data file. Unlike the Intel based chipsets where the CPU score would drasticaly be affected in 3D Mark, the CPU scores for motherboards for the AMD platform were a lot more stable with both the NVIDIA boards as well as the AMD ones.