Benchmarks: AMD's Phenom II

Kai Schmerer ZDNet Germany

Published: 30 Jan 2009

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3D performance: Farcry 2, Crysis, 3D Mark Vantage
The 3D Mark Vantage gaming benchmark provides three results. The CPU score shows how well the processors perform physics calculations, while the GPU score measures graphics card performance. The 3D Mark score gives the overall score from both the individual tests.

In the CPU test, the Intel chips are clearly some way ahead of the AMD competition, but in the GPU score the differences are less pronounced. Overall, the Intel chips come out narrowly ahead.

3D Mark Vantage is an artificial test that says little about practical performance, unlike genuine 3D games. When running Fear, the AMD chips show what they are capable of, although they are outstripped in Crysis and Farcry 2 by the Intel systems. It's interesting that in this area the dual-core E8500 can match the quad-core chips for pace — 3D games are obviously not designed to exploit all the features of the quad-core architecture.

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