Here are the specs of our test systems.

Our test system was Windows Vista Home Premium with the 8.47RC2 ATI Catalyst Drivers and Nvidia's 169.28 Forceware drivers. V-sync was disabled with all tests.

Let's start things off with Crysis, the most advanced game engine on the market currently.

Our setups are more complex than usual so we'll explain the exact settings. The 7050 is Nvidia's nForce 630a/7050 integrated video on a Biostar motherboard with the Athlon X2 4850e. The 690G is an Asus M2A-VM 690G integrated graphics chipset on the X2 4850e. The 780G 9600 is the plain 780G chipset with a Phenom 9600 Black Edition at stock clock. The 780G X2 OC is the 780G with the video overclocked to 825MHz (325MHz above the standard clock) with the Athlon X2 4850e. The 780G X2 3450 is the 780G chipset with a Radeon HD 3450 discrete graphics card NOT running in hybrid Crossfire with the Athlon X2 4850e. The 780G X2 Xfire is the 780G with a Radeon 3450 running in Hybrid Graphics with Crossfire enabled. The 780G X2 is the 780G chipset with the Athlon X2 4850e.

Well with all of that out of the way, let's see how the 780G performs. We'll start things off with Epic's Unreal Tournament 3.

As you can see the 780G easily tops the previous generation of integrated graphics and with a Phenom 9600 performs about 16fps better than a 4850e. Hybrid Crossfire doesn't make much of an impact here in Unreal Tournament 3, gaining a few frames per second over just a standard Radeon 3850 graphics card.

Amazingly Crysis is playable on integrated graphics albeit on low settings. We obtained 27.5 fps with the low cost 4850e X2 processor and a 780G and 34.6 with a Phenom 9600 Black Edition. Again hybrid graphics doesn't show a huge gain but that'll change for a few other games.

At medium settings everything takes a big hit but the Hybrid Graphics Radeon 3450 with the X2 4850e comes out on top at 18.1fps, about 20% faster than just the 780G alone.