Quote Originally Posted by Shintai View Post
The numbers just doesnt add up with the HD4800 series in any possible way. Unless they outright cheated. However the IGP numbers are in fact very there where they should be.

Plus its not the first time we seen a slide like this. It was the exact same the last time...even tho a discrete GPU was also part of the platform. it was still an IGP shootout.
The slide is named AMD's Dragon platform performance.I supplied the press quote which clearly says what Dragon is.It clearly is NOT IGP based system.
You can speculate all you want,but that is a fact.It's HD4800 series card inside Dragon system.And i doubt AMD would pair intel systems with IGPs while everyone knows intel systems well support PCIe ,SLI and CF on them . ALso the numbers don't fit even if it supposedly was HD4870 vs intel IGP since the difference woul be like 500 or 700% ,NOT 20% and 40-50%. Makes no sense.
It's not like intel systems can't run PCIe cards inside of them...
Yeah,you can think they "outright cheated".We don't know what drivers they used,what boards they used for Yorkfileds,but you can logically dismiss "IGP hypothesis" since it doesn't fit in the very essence of next generation desktop platform. NExt gen desktop platform and IGP is no go.And that's what Dragon is,a successor to Spider(which surprise surprise is Phenom+790FX+HD3800 ,NOT +IGP)