cpu performance matters again

[gallag]

Some guy @the zone has found a bench somewhere that flies in the face of every other bench on the inter web and shows k10 besting core in a gaming bench. http://www.amdzone.com/amdzone/index.php?option=com_fireboard&Itemid=27&func=view&id=134807&catid=52

Do any of you go over there? Seems that a few people are so devoted to the green side that even the mod attacks people if they happen to say anything that is remotely true about the current situation. There is a few that seem to seem sensible but they just get called troll etc.

Any way I just thought I would keep yous in the loop about cpu performance mattering in gaming again lol

 

[yomamafor1]

That's weird... because Anandtech's benchmarks completely disagree with theirs.

LostCircuit's UT3:

Anand's UT3:

Now let's examine F.E.A.R. Guru3D's benchmarks:
http://guru3d.com/article/processor/477/10/

I don't know about you, but it looks like F.E.A.R is more clockspeed limited than core count limited.

Lost Circuit's F.E.A.R:

EDIT: What's even funnier, is how LC claim F.E.A.R to be heavily multithreaded.

Fear is heavily multithreaded and it shows in the Phenom performance ending up in a neck-to-nec race with Intel's fastest currently available CPU for the Phenom 9900.

But Extremetech differs on that opinion.
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1884126,00.asp

There's a 13% jump from the 3500+ chip to the dual-core 4800+, and another 4% up to the FX-55. This isn't very surprising: F.E.A.R. is not multithreaded to take advantage of the dual-core X2 chip, so it's left competing with just one core at 2.4GHz against the FX-55's 2.6GHz. At 2.2GHz, the 3500+ brings up the rear.

It looks like a lot of differences between LC's and other reputable sites'. To be honest, I would take Anand, ExtremeTech's words over LC's words any time of the day.

I've been to AMDzone just recently, where the Mods basically attacked someone just because he said Intel's Quad core is faster, and had been out longer. The mod said, "yes, but everyone knows Intel's is just a "fake" quad core, where AMD's the "real" quad core".

Nice try, AMDzone fanboys.