14 DAY TRIAL // When Advanced Micro Devices introduced the dual graphics technology, it said that, especially on low-end cards, the GCN GPU could join forces with the GPU inside the Kaveri APU and reach higher graphics capabilities. Intel still seems to have won though.
The people at Extremetech looked at four system configurations: one with only the AMD A10-7850K APU ($185 / €185), one with the Intel Core i3-4330 CPU and AMD's Radeon R7 260X graphics card ($260 / €260), one with the A10-7850K and R7 250 ($275 / €275) and one with the A10-7850K and R7 260X ($305 / €305).
All the PCs had 8 GB of DDR3 RAM (random access memory (unclear if it was dual-channel or not) running at 2133 MHz (good for budget gaming, even a bit on the high side really).
You would expect the A10-7850K + R7 260X PC to win out, but that's not what happens, except in games that use the Mantle API instead of DirectX (like Battlefield 4).
In the end, the Core i3-4330 and an R7 260X seems to come on the winning side, but you can check out the benchmarks in the gallery and see for yourselves. The i3 is only beat in Battlefield 4, and even then only by 1 point. Maybe AMD still has some drive kinks to sort out?
