WorldBench

WorldBench overall performance
WorldBench uses scripting to step through a series of tasks in common Windows applications. It then produces an overall score. WorldBench also spits out individual results for its component application tests, allowing us to compare performance in each. We'll look at the overall score, and then we'll show individual application results alongside the results from some of our own application tests.

The 690G is locked in a dead heat with the GeForce 6150 in WorldBench, but both trail the 6150 SE by a few points. Digging deeper into our WorldBench results should give us a better idea of where the 690G did well, and where it went wrong.

Multimedia editing and encoding

MusicMatch Jukebox

Windows Media Encoder

Adobe Premiere

VideoWave Movie Creator

Things look promising for the 690G in WorldBench's multimedia editing and encoding tests, and AMD even pulls off a win in Premiere.

3D rendering

3ds max

OpenGL performance continues to dog the AMD chip. The 690G is more than 60% slower than the GeForce 6150s in WorldBench's OpenGL 3ds max test, but right in the thick of things in a similar DirectX test.