


The fact that we’re seeing scaling based on CPU choice without anti-aliasing and fairly even performance with anti-aliasing is a good indicator that we’re bumping up against the performance of our Radeon HD 5850 once everything is cranked up.
But at 1680x1050, where the CPUs are demonstrating what they can do, it’s clear that the Intel CPUs have the advantage.
Of course, once you fire up the anti-aliasing or crank resolutions as high as 2560x1600, things normalize and it doesn’t matter which of these processors you pick—graphics determine performance.
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Summary
- AMD Can Do Six Cores, Too
- Phenom II X6: A Family Of Two
- Making Sense Of Turbo CORE
- 8-Series Chipsets, Revealed
- Test Setup And Benchmarks
- Benchmark Results: Synthetics
- Benchmark Results: Media And Transcoding Apps
- Benchmark Results: Productivity
- Benchmark Results: Crysis
- Benchmark Results: Left 4 Dead 2
- Benchmark Results: Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
- Benchmark Results: DiRT 2
- Power Consumption
- Conclusion
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I just cant remember tom's last review that had an nvidia card with an AMD processor.
In this case, it does not perform better than i7-920, even though the 920 is a 4 core cpu (and no, no one really runs it at 2.66, everyone pushes it at least to 3, since it takes nothing to get it to that speed, and it right away outperforms AMD's 6 core, and has a much better memory throughput).
I was able to hit 3.7 with Turbo CORE enabled fairly easily. It might go higher, but I'd argue this probably isn't as much of an overclocking chip as a 965 might be.
Actually it's under 300$, but still really affordable
Like playing games while having handbreak and antivirus running at the same time.
I can see why you would but do you realize the time this would take to do everyones favorite game? Not a reasonable thing to do...
I was talking about 1055T.