Mash-up graphics
Aside from CPU performance and the volume of RAM your box has at its disposal, graphics grunt is the largest contributor to a computer’s proficiency in the gaming world.
With AMD/ATI making quite a bit of noise about its superior integrated graphics solutions and more importantly, claiming that its embedded graphics chipsets can be bound together with a low-cost discrete graphics card to provide ‘gaming’ capable graphics performance, we smelt a rat.
So we thought we’d take a closer look and while we were at it, put its discrete solutions through their paces – more to get an indication of where what solution sits (and what you can expect to pay) in the greater scheme of things.
But before we get into the benchmarking, let’s look at a little background shall we?
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