AMD A10 6790 review - Performance iGPU - Integrated APU Graphics Engine

Performance - Integrated APU Graphics Engine

Now, we've been chatting up on the embedded IGP inside the APU, you can make use of it if you purchase an APU based processor. With some 384 shader cores and raw horsepower of the A10 APU series you can actually game. For serious gamers really we recommend you to look into a dedicated graphics card for gaming. But if you lower image quality settings a little; gaming at 1080P is within range. 

Far Cry 2

Above, you can see multiple IGP based processors at work, the IGP is rendering Far Cry 2 with 0xAA enabled, high image quality settings and DX10 mode. Intel made quite a big step in performance over previous generations really, it can now compete much better with AMD's Fusion offerings. However Richland with an A10 6700, 6790 and 6800K APUs shows its muscle alright, that is just very strong performance for an IGP.

Resident Evil Benchmark

Here, try to compare say the Core i5 661 processor with its embedded IGP to the Core i5 2500K series 3000 IGP. Then look at A10 6790 -- The title you are looking at is the Resident Evil benchmark, we have HQ settings enabled, are in DX9 mode yet have AA disabled. Honestly that's completely playable even at a monitor resolution of 1920x1080.

3DMark Vantage confirms the much better overall IGP performance, however the strong processor power will influence the P score big-time. So try and focus at the GPU score there. But yeah, the IGP architecture shows off what it can do.

And of course the brutal DX11 test, we did a quick run with 3DMark 11, on an IGP. Later on in this article we'll also mount a dedicated graphics card onto the system and have a peek what that does in performance. But the A10 APU has a very strong IGP.