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by Jarred-Walton (May, 2012)The A8-4500M takes a pretty major chunk out of the GPU (one third of the GPU cores are gone along with a slight drop in maximum clock speed) while maintaining roughly 80% of the CPU performance, so it can fit into slightly cheaper laptops but will likely drop gaming performance from “moderate” to “light.
by Don-Woligroski (Aug, 2012)We recently hooked up with overclocking guru Sami Mäkinen to get his take on the best way to overclock AMD's A8-3870K APU.
Benchmarks Real world tests of the GeForce GT 720A
PassMark Industry standard benchmark for overall graphics card performanceData courtesy Passmark
Features Key features of the GeForce GT 720A
memory bandwidth Rate at which data can be read from or stored in onboard memory
pixel rate Number of pixels a graphics card can render to the screen every second
texture rate Speed at which a graphics card can perform texture mapping
floating point performance How fast the gpu can crunch numbers
shading units Subcomponents of the gpu, these run in parallel to enable fast pixel shading
texture mapping units Built into each gpu, these resize and rotate bitmaps for texturing scenes
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Essentially, Gigabyte is going to make sure that the GPUs on the WaterForce Tri-SLI are the best they can get their hands on, with the best chance for overclocking higher than stock.
The GA-N980X3WA-4GD WaterForce Tri-SLI is a 3-Way SLI system with integrated water cooling powered by a set of three GeForce GTX 980 GPUs.
| 12 Aug |
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Following Nvidia's official launch of the GT 720 graphics card, EVGA has announced its two versions of the new entry-level card with either 1 or 2GB of DDR3 memory.
| 12 Aug |
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Due to its design and low TDP, most, if not all Nvidia partners will most decide to go with a low-profile designs, along with some passive designs.
Nvidia has announced its newest entry-level discrete graphics card, the Geforce GT 720.
| 11 Aug |
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When it comes to building and configuring Core M, Intel likes to refer to their efforts as the “Fanless Challenge,” reflecting the fact that their biggest goal with Core M is to comfortably get the processor in to 10” tablets under 10mm in thickness that are passively cooled.
The end result no doubt limited what performance optimizations Intel could integrate into Broadwell’s design, but it also functionally reduces power requirements for any given performance level, furthering Intel’s goals in getting Core performance in a mobile device.
Specifications Full list of technical specs
gpu
| GPU brand | Nvidia |
|---|---|
| GPU name | GF117 |
| Market | Laptop |
| Clock speed | 938 MHz |
| Is dual GPU | No |
| Reference card | None |
raw performance
| Shading units | 96 |
|---|---|
| Texture mapping units | 16 |
| Render output processors | 8 |
| Pixel rate | 3.75 GPixel/s |
| Texture rate | 15.01 GTexel/s |
| Floating-point performance | 360.2 GFLOPS |
memory
| Memory clock speed | 1,000 MHz |
|---|---|
| Effective memory clock speed | 2,000 MHz |
| Memory bus | 64 bit |
| Memory | 2,048 MB |
| Memory type | DDR3 |
| Memory bandwidth | 16 GB/s |
noise and power
| TDP | 33W |
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