AMD FX-8370 and FX-8370E 8-Core CPU Reviews
Gaming: Crysis and ET:QW
For our next series of tests, we moved on to some more in-game benchmarking with Crysis and Enemy Territory: Quake Wars. When testing processors with Crysis or ET:QW, we drop the resolution to 1024x768, and reduce all of the in-game graphical options to their minimum values to isolate CPU and memory performance as much as possible. However, the in-game effects, which control the level of detail for the games' physics engines and particle systems, are left at their maximum values, since these actually do place a load on the CPU rather than GPU.
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No surprises here. The FX-8370 and 8370E are basically tied, with Intel's latest cores holding a significant edge over Sunnyvale. The gap is smaller in Crysis, but gaming includes a lot of operations that require low latency and relatively few threads. The FX family stumbles a bit under these conditions.
