Here is our current test system.

Windows Vista Ultimate 32-bit SP1 was our OS with the latest drivers from Intel numbered 1583 and dated late July. Our ATI drivers were beta versions of 8.8 Catalyst drivers and Forceware 175.18 for Nvidia.

Since we're dealing with integrated graphics let's start things off with the most popular game of today, World of Warcraft. We used FRAPS in an Elf level where following a repeatable path for this FRAPS capture.

And we're off. Here we see the 790GX come in much higher than the 780G and Hybrid Crossfire with a Radeon 3450 512MB shows phenomenal gains above what we saw previously in HCF with the 780G. The G45 and Nvidia's chipset both do fairly well in this game which isn't too graphically intensive but can't compete with AMD.

Battlefield 2 is definitely playable on the G45 which is a good improvement as you'd hope to see with an older title.

Call of Duty 4 is an incredibly popular and modern shooter from Infinity Ward and a title we had to test. The G45 is definitely not playable here and although the other integrated graphics chipsets don't do as well either except for the 790GX 10.9fps is just unacceptable with such a popular title that normall scales well.

We attempted to benchmark Crysis in DX10 mode but ran across a number of artifacts. Even still we recorded 6fps at 1024x768 with DX10 and it simply would not play at 1280x1024.