GT3 Versus 650m

[JronMasteR]

The real world performance of the GT3 has yet to be seen. Last year, the also showed some impressive things with the HD4000. But to be honest, most games run very bad.
I mean, one of the most important things is always the driver support. And if the game developer does not support the integrated gpu's, than the games will not run.
And as other people have already said, the memory bandwidth of the GT650m is surely much higher.

I'm pretty sure the game they showed was very well optimized for the GT3.

 

[cirus]

The dual-core comment was for the HD 4000 comparison. We're still on that one, right? Or is it just a general discussion on how Battlefield 3 is not CPU-bound now?

And again, I have played BF3. It makes no difference whether it's Singleplayer or Multiplayer. The game is just very CPU-bound if it only has 2 cores to deal with.

And my Mac Mini has the 6630M.

I was talking about the i7 3610 and the 3820 both of which are quad core. The hd4000 in the 3820 is stronger because it has higher clocks not because of a better cpu.

Here is bf3 on the highest settings with one of the strongest possible single gpus. at 1024p resolution.

Yes they are all quadcore desktop processors. However, the athlon x4 is weaker than any mobile quad core ivy. It gets the same frame rate as the 2600k @ 5ghz (give or take a few fps)

The pentium g850 which is a dual core, non hyper threaded cpu running at 2.9 ghz (no turbo) gets the same fps as a 2500k on bf3 singleplayer. ITS A DUAL CORE AND IT GETS THE SAME FPS. it even has no hyperthreading and runs at 2.9 ghz, which pretty much any ivy bridge mobile cpu can turbo up to.

Benchmark Results: We were surprised to see that there is almost no performance difference between the various processors. This would lead us to believe that high end graphics card like the AMD Radeon HD 7950 might still be the bottleneck at the ultra graphics settings. The variations that we are seeing are likely due to the AI changing in the scene, sometimes they threw out grenades, sometimes they didn't.

And the hd 7950 is much faster than the hd 4000.

Pretty much every site on the web says that bf3 SINGLEPLAYER is very hard on the gpu and very easy on the cpu.