This being a heavily visual benchmark, the Integrated HD 8000 did well

Mar 12, 2013 13:01 GMT  ·  By

Advanced Micro Devices continues to stick to good but not too good processing capabilities for its CPUs, but it excels at graphics, as evident from the benchmark results of the new Richland “Elite” notebook chips.

The tests probably weren't the most objective ever made, but AMD published a comparison between its Richland processors and Intel Core i7.

The presentation slide relevant to this report is just above, and shows that, in 3DMark FireStrike with DirectX 11 enabled, Richland performed over 50% better.

Not a bad showing for something that is much cheaper than Intel's top-tier processors.

We'll be back soon with a tally of what will make Richland-based laptops truly special. In the meantime, AMD's partners should start revealing some actual upcoming notebooks, even if they won't be selling them too soon.