Intel Core 2 Duo Performance Update
FarCry and LAME MT
We continued our testing with yet another popular game, FarCry. For these tests, the game was set to a resolution of 1024x768 and all of its graphical options were set to their minimum values. We've got results from the Research, Training and Volcano demos here...
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As you can see, Intel's Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Extreme simply dominated the Athlon with all three of FarCry's build-in demos. The Core 2 Duo E6700 was up to 45% faster than the overclocked Athlon here, while the Core 2 Extreme X6800 pulled ahead by almost 58%.
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In this next custom LAME MT MP3 encoding test, a large WAV file was converted to the MP3 format, which is a very popular scenario that many end users work with on a day-to-day basis, to provide portability and storage of their digital audio content.
Score yet another victory for the Core 2 Duo. In the single-threaded test, the Core 2 Duo finished the encoding process 32 seconds faster than the overclocked Athlon. And in the multi-threaded test the Core 2 Duo increased its lead to 37 seconds. A few seconds here and there may not sound like much, but convert a whole CD library, and the Core 2 Duo's performance advantage here could save countless hours.
