AMD A8-3870K Unlocked Llano Quad-Core APU Review
Gaming: 3DMark 06 and FarCry 2
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 FarCry 2 |
Like the original, FarCry 2 is one of the more visually impressive games to be released on the PC to date. Courtesy of the Dunia game engine developed by Ubisoft, FarCry 2's game-play is enhanced by advanced environment physics, destructible terrain, high resolution textures, complex shaders, realistic dynamic lighting, and motion-captured animations. We benchmarked the systems in this article with a fully patched version of FarCry 2, using one of the built-in demo runs recorded in the "Ranch" map. |
The GPU integrated into the A8-3870K (and all other Llano-based APUs) is obviously far more powerful than Intel's, as is evidenced by our FarCry 2 results shown here--there's simply no contest. Overclocking the A8-3870K also yielded some nice performance gains.
