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Originally Posted by conzilla 
For those of you that dont know already. Its impossible to argue on amds behalf. Gpu performance could be 100% better than the intel 4000 and people would argue the one benchmark where it is only 90% faster. Look at the threads about the 7970 and the 680 maybe 5-8% difference most of the time and bickering is 40 pages long.

For those of you that dont know already. Its impossible to argue on amds behalf. Gpu performance could be 100% better than the intel 4000 and people would argue the one benchmark where it is only 90% faster. Look at the threads about the 7970 and the 680 maybe 5-8% difference most of the time and bickering is 40 pages long.
Duly noted. I remember 10s of pages of people bickering about AMD "cheating" with IQ through the CCC; I believe the end result was a driver fix, problem solved. Now, HD 3000 has ATROCIOUS image quality (it's laughable when Anandtech points out how terrible it is), HD 4000 improved somewhat but HD 4k's IQ is still lower than Llano's IQ (and certainly lower than Trinity's). So you'll have to crank up Intel settings to try to get IQ as good as AMD's, or just take the high IQ and higher performance out the box with Trinity. Ooooh decisions... Intel integrated fanboys are the worst kind.
















) Bulldozer is just as fast or faster than Phenom II, in my experience anyway. Going from an x3 720 @ 3.6Ghz to a FX-4170 @ 4.8Ghz made games (Especially Skyrim) run smoother and x264 encoding and compression via WinRAR got faster. I expected the encoding to be faster, after all it's got an extra core but even limiting it to three cores still shows a performance increase.
