Next, we look at another threaded DirectX 11 title, Ubisoft’s Far Cry 3, based on the Dunia Engine 2.


I find this game easily playable when frame rates are in the 30s. But if I was gaming on the Core 2 Duo E8400, I’d want to capitalize on the extra performance attainable through overclocking.
Having ventured deep into the single-player campaign on a $500 System Builder Marathon PC (sporting a Pentium G850 processor and Radeon HD 7850 graphics), I found that pairing to be a good match at 1920x1080 using Very High quality settings. In fact, during the following quarter, there was no noticeable performance boost stepping up to Core i5 until I began overclocking the Radeon HD 7850.


However, just as we see here, that dual-core Sandy Bridge-based chip fell short under the increased demands of Ultra quality details. Basically, you are wasting your money buying graphics hardware capable of maximum visuals in this game unless you balance your card out with a processor able to juggle four threads. In this case, both the Core i3-3225 and Core i5-3570K are strong enough to shift the demands back over to our beefy Radeon HD 7970, even with just 2x MSAA enabled.
- 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?
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