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To: eracer who wrote (255388)	8/8/2008 11:31:33 AM
From: wbmw	Respond to of 275872

Re: Not exactly. The Intel G45 graphics performance would still be roughly 30% slower than the 790GX on average. I can live with that, actually. I don't play the latest FPS (First Person Shooter) games, so scores on Crysis and Quake Wars are sort of moot to me. I'd like to play the somewhat casual games, like Spore and Age of Empires 3 with enough frame rate to be playable. I haven't seen many G45 reviews to confirm this, but even the G35 played most casual games fairly well, and given the improvements, I'm comfortable feeling that G45 will be even better - and also have hardware video decode and better power management besides. I think most consumers will be happy with the G45 feature set. That's the ~50% of the graphics market who buys integrated graphics without the double attach. The 780G has been available for a couple of quarters already, but how come the Jon Peddie research hasn't seen a huge spike in AMD market share, but rather a big spike for Intel? Probably because most consumers are happy with Intel's basic feature set, and the argument has essentially become a battle of what enthusiasts expect from a low end graphics solution. Obviously, performance and frame rate matters supreme. But since enthusiasts buy discrete graphics in the first place, I don't think the market for AMD's integrated graphics is necessarily as large as some people here expect. Especially, I think the 790GX is a boondoggle. Consumers would rather buy 780G + $50 discrete card than pay the extra $50 for slightly better chipset graphics.