AMD Spider Platform - Phenom, 790FX, RV670

Name: AMD Spider Platform - Phenom, 790FX, RV670 - Page 12
Brand: AMD

by Marco Chiappetta — Monday, November 19, 2007, 12:01 PM EDT

For our last set of game tests, we moved on to some in-game benchmarking with the Crysis SP demo and F.E.A.R. When testing processors with Crysis or F.E.A.R, we drop the resolution to 800x600, 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 some load on the CPU rather than GPU.

Benchmarks with Crysis SP Demo and F.E.A.R. v1.08

DirectX 9 and 10 Gaming Performance

Crysis reported an edge for the Phenom processors over the QuadFX and Athlon 64 X2 4600+ systems, but the higher-clocked 3.2GHz Athlon 64 X2 6400+ was the fastest of the AMD-powered systems by a couple of frames per second. The Intel-powered systems were in a league of their own, however. The spread was almost identical in the F.E.A.R. benchmark, but in the F.E.A.R. test the QuadFX rig put up the best score from the AMD camp. All of the Core 2-based systems finished with much higher framerates, once again.

Tags: AMD, Phenom, Platform, 790FX, fx, Pi, PLA, id, AM

Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com