AMD Launches New Phenom II and Athlon II Processors

Name: AMD Launches New Phenom II and Athlon II Processors - Page 5
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by Marco Chiappetta — Tuesday, September 21, 2010, 12:01 AM EDT

Low-Res Gaming: Crysis and ETQW

Page 5: Low-Res Gaming: Crysis and ETQW

For our next set of tests, we moved on to some in-game benchmarking with Crysis and Enemy Territory: Quake Wars. When testing processors with Crysis or ET:QW, 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.

Low-Resolution Gaming: Crysis and ET: Quake Wars

Taking the GPU out of the Equation

In both the Crysis CPU benchmark and our custom Enemy Territory: Quake Wars test, all of the new AMD processors performed as expected. The same performance trend we've seen throughout the article is repeated here.