Benchmarks: Gaming
You know how IGPs are usually more than adequate for everything other than high-quality gaming? Well, we're starting to get to the point where good-quality gaming is possible without a discrete GPU.
BioShock Infinite at 720p with medium-quality settings looks reasonably easy on the eye, and the FX-7600P is able to return a smooth 39.3 frames per second.
GRID 2 is less GPU intensive but looks and plays well at 720p with high-quality settings. AMD's engineering sample laptop was able to maintain an average of almost 41 frames per second, though the machine did become hot and loud at this point.
Total War: Rome II runs perfectly well, too. Bump the resolution up to full-HD, however, and the Radeon R7 IGP will struggle - our tests at 1080p returned 21.5 fps in BioShock, 29.9 fps in GRID and 26.2 fps in Total War. Playable, just, but not as smooth as we'd like.
Mobile Kaveri certainly brings basic gaming potential to mainstream laptops, though it's the possibility of Dual Graphics configurations that has us intrigued. We're waiting to hear from AMD as to which particular combinations will be supported, but an FX-7600P partnered with a Radeon R9 M200-Series GPU in CrossFire could, in theory, make for an interesting gaming laptop.
