AMD 690G is one of the first chipset developed ATI’s engineers but launched using the AMD brand and several motherboards have been presented since the launch. As expected this is a circuit for AMD’s own Socket AM2 platform and the thing that has caught our attention is the integrated graphics circuit; Radeon X1250. At Legit Review they’ve published a review of the chipset where they compare it to NVIDIA’s nForce 6150 series and AMD 690G offers just as good performance with office applications, but with synthetic and game benchmarks it leaves the competition far behind. AMD 690G seems to be a very competent chipset, but you can in fact overclock it too.
Legit Reviews decided to push the Radeon X1250 circuit a bit more and managed to improve the original frequency of 400MHz to a stable speed at 525MHz, not too shabby. There are some performance improvements but unfortunately the memory is quite as fast.
“This 125Mhz overclock is an overclock of greater than 30%, which is impressive for an integrated chipset. While overclocking the core is beneficial, it would have been nice if the memory clock frequency could also be adjusted. I’m not complaining about the performance increase because a ~11% increase on F.E.A.R. is better than expected.”
