Performance Comparison With New GPU

The old video was Intel HD Graphics 4600, built in to the motherboard. The free PerformanceTest 8.0 was run to determine rough graphics processing capabilities.

Onboard graphics card


PassMark rating 1825


Add-in graphics card


PassMark rating 2405



The benchmarks don't show everything, and in this case appeared to under-rate the new video card. In real usage, the AMD showed about double the 3D graphics performance compared with the onboard video.


GPU-Z is used to measure the new video card, including the temperature. Running a stress test, the fan is at 56% and the temperature is 71 C.