Quote Originally Posted by qurious63ss View Post
Yes very well indeed. I was under the impression that the Clarkdale IGP was nothing more than a gma 4500 integrated into the same package, but it looks like it may be something completely new or could it be that moving IGP closer to CPU make that big a difference?
I think there are three fundamental improvements at play here:

1) Slightly upgraded IGP arch (it's about due).
2) Increased IGP clockspeeds (I think there's a process shrink and there's definitely room for an increased thermal envelope from moving it into the CPU package [that has a much better guaranteed cooler] and out of the NB [that has a dinky passive thing plus all the other stuff on the same die])
3) Increased memory bandwidth due to improved memory controller on the Clarkdale (compared to G43/45's MC).

I could be totally wrong on all three points...I have no actual knowledge of the innerworkings of Clarkdale, if I did, I couldn't talk about it