ATI 9100 IGP PRO: Optimized for Prescott

Integrated Graphics: General Performance and Media Encoding

The Intel processors on Intel chipsets have always done exceptionally well in Media Encoding benchmarks. For that reason, it was a pleasant surprise to see the RS350 perform about the same as the Intel 865 in our 2-pass Encoding benchmark.

At the low numbers we see in Winstone 2004, an advantage of more than a point in the Multimedia Content Creation Benchmark does mean better performance with the RS350. We suspect that the better graphics performance of the 9100 IGP is contributing to the better performance of the RS350 in this benchmark, since Business Winstone results are all but the same.

PCMark 2004 also appears sensitive to the better graphics performance of the ATI chipset, which is one of the reasons it is a useful benchmark for measuring system performance. General Performance benchmarks are generally not very sensitive to differences in graphics capabilities - they are more sensitive to CPU scaling. As a result, these benchmarks are the closest that you will find in our tests comparing Intel 865G and ATI 9100 IGP PRO.