AMD's 785G Chipset - Revolutionary or Evolutionary?

WinRAR 3.9b5 x64

This benchmark compresses our AT workload consisting of a main folder that contains 954MB of data spread across 28 files in 15 subfolders. The result is a file approximately 829MB in size.

WinRAR loves processor speed and bandwidth improvements. Our two DDR3 systems finish in first. The 785G DDR3 platform holds a 3% advantage over its DDR2 sibling and 5% advantage over the G41 combination.

iTunes 8 x64

We import the album Tommy by The Who to our disk in WAV format. The directory consists of 25 songs totaling 751MB. We then convert this music collection to an AAC format using the iTune Plus option.

Umm, normally this application only responds to CPU speed but our AMD platform holds a 7% advantage in that area so these results are interesting to say the least. Could it be that since Apple’s current products run on Intel processors that this application is highly optimized for the Core 2 series. Regardless of the reason, the G41 setup holds a 9% advantage over our 785G platform.

Blender 2.49 x64

We complete a full render operation on our Flying Squirrel image utilizing this very popular open source program.

Our 785G platform is 4% faster than the G41 setup. Blender typically responds well to CPU speed with the 7% core speed advantage favoring the AMD system.

Cinema 4D R11 x64

Cinema 4D R11 is one of our favorite programs to create high-end 3D images and animations. We track the time it takes to render a swimming pool layout.

We could not get Maxon’s premier application to work with the current Intel Win7 driver set so there is no score to report here.

LightWave 3D 9.6 x64

Another popular 3D rendering program is Lightwave 3D 9.6. In this test, we time the rendering of a single frame from an office building animation. The time to render the full scene is approximately four and a half hours.

The G41 platform slides in with a 2% advantage over its 785G counterpart.

Overall, the 785G platform can be utilized for a variety of applications, including 3D rendering where the graphics core is not of primary importance during rendering. In this case, we would suggest a Phenom II based processor along with DDR3 memory for best results.