Clarkdale's Efficiency: Core i5-661 Versus Core 2, Athlon II, And Phenom II
Benchmark Results: Games And 3DMark Vantage
Far Cry still runs better on an AMD system, thanks to the 785G chipset.
In Left 4 Dead, Intel’s new Core i5-661 can actually overtake AMD with a bang.
3DMark’s score says it all. The new CPU/GPU combo is much faster than Core 2 Duo and G45. Bear in mind that these are scores taken from the app's Entry suite, whereas yesterday's launch coverage employed the Performance preset. The point remains the same: you can do some very entry-level gaming with HD Graphics, but anything beyond medium/low settings and dismally-archaic resolutions will be beyond what integrated graphics can handle.
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