Conclusion:

ATI is definitely doing better than it ever has presently since AMD's buyout of them. Things are starting to cook with the HD Radeon 3xxx series and the 780G brings about a huge shift in integrated graphics performance, power usage, and features with many high-end novelties attached. Nvidia and especially Intel have some catching up to do. Our benchmarks speak for themselves and while integrated graphics will never rival a discrete solution things are definitely looking much better and even some of today's newest high-tech games are at least playable on lower settings and more mainstream games can be run at maximum settings. This is good for AMD and this is good for the gaming industry as a whole. If we forced to buy a platform solution from either Intel or AMD with integrated graphics they would definitely be the winner with the loads of features they have and excellent performance. With how cheap things are the 780G can also make a great box for a second PC, HTPC, or a as we mentioned a cheap WoW box. With how low the quad-core Phenom processors are currently it also becomes quite a tempting upgrade solution and B3 processors should be hitting e-tailers more than likely in the next month at least. With prices as low as $180 it is a very attractive cheap quad-core solution especially for current AM2 owners.

Hybrid graphics as of yet we aren't quite sold on completely. It shows some promise with a few games but you'd probably be better off saving money for a higher-end discrete solution than going for hybrid graphics. This could change though and we'll evaluate as drivers and hopefully information comes in. Still it is innovative but we think it holds more promise for the notebook realm.

Overall we think the 780G speaks for it's self, integrated graphics you can play today's games on, excellent features, overclockability, power consumption, and price. It is still definitely a more mainstream solution but it's the highest-end of the mainstream and as we mentioned earlier seems like an obvious choice for an HTPC, second box, but more than likely should be a big boon for OEMs and if they make the right choice, finally bring capable integrated graphics to the masses.

Score: 98%