F1 2012 is one of Codemasters’ popular DirectX 11 racing titles based on its own Ego Engine 2.0.


This game appears well-optimized for quad-core processors, allowing the 2.83 GHz Core 2 Quad to easily best a 4.0 GHz Core 2 Duo. With that said, all of our CPUs remain capable enough of playing through this title fluidly. There were no noticeable stutters and, apart from one dip, frame rates remained above 40 FPS.


Subjected to the Ultra detail preset, our dual-core processors only deliver half of the Core i5-3570K's performance, at best. There’s certainly a good reason to buy a quad-core or Hyper-Threaded dual-core CPU for this title, but F1 2012 is still playable with a respectable dual-core processor.
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- Old Vs. New: Six Intel Processors, Benchmarked
- Test System Configuration And Benchmarks
- Results: Synthetics
- Results: Audio And Video
- Results: Adobe Creative Suite
- Results: Productivity
- Results: Compression
- Game Testing Methodology
- Results: Borderlands 2
- Results: Crysis 3
- Results: F1 2012
- Results: Far Cry 3
- Results: Hitman: Absolution
- Results: StarCraft II: Heart Of The Swarm
- Results: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
- Results: Tomb Raider
- Overclocking: More Voltage, Higher Clocks
- Overclocking: 3D Game Performance
- Power Consumption
- Performance Summary
- How Do Five-Year-Old CPUs Hold Up Against Ivy Bridge?
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Also, amoralman, did you read this? It's basically assuring you that your C2D is still awesome as a budget processor.
Also holy crap on 1.45 vcore on the C2D
I find it shocking that my E6600(which I still hold in high regard, is far far worse than a 50 dollar Celeron. My mind is blown.
That said, today's quads have a more efficient and better architecture than those of yesteryear, and the 3570K is a popular choice for enthusiasts.
intel made all their leaps forward with this architecture, and killed AMD in the process. And has never really moved past it... 6 years on and it still stands toe to toe with the latest and greatest.
I'm not that surprised really.
i have both and the 3570k is significantly faster than an e6600, i always had problems with the e6600 not being fast enough for my taste, its a night and day difference between the 2