Can someone explain this benchmark to me?

[Ichigo]

Why is the Athlon II 620 beating i7's at anything?

http://www.overclockersclub.com/reviews/athlon2_620/8.htm

@1920x1200, what the heck? Are GPU-limited situations that weird?

 

[Ichigo]

Okay, with some further looking around I see that they tested with maximum in-game settings for visuals, which is different than AT's method of generally medium quality settings at medium resolutions.

Still, that's really GPU-limited.

 

[Insomniator]

Those results are all GPU limited... I'm not sure what exactly creates +/- 3 fps in a gpu or cpu limited benchmark but it doesn't really matter.

 

[n7]

AMD does extremely well in Far Cry 2 benching for whatever reasons.

I've seen that in reviews here @ AT as well.

So if all you play is FC2, then an AMD CPU would work well for you.

 

[lopri]

I have always thought FarCry 2's built-in benchmark is rigged. :biggrin:

 

[zerocool84]

With that few frames difference, it just seems to be the benchmark tolerances.

 

[Allio]

AMD does extremely well in Far Cry 2 benching for whatever reasons.

I've seen that in reviews here @ AT as well.

So if all you play is FC2, then an AMD CPU would work well for you.

Really? From what I've seen that built-in benchmark (which is all anyone seems to benchmark with) tends to produce massive differentiation between high-end i7 CPUs and Phenoms (like, the i7 is literally twice as fast). Meanwhile in real-world gaming, and just about all other games benchmarks, they perform so close to each other that you'd never notice the difference.

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I wish AT would test in-game rather than using that thing, it seems to be more of a synthetic bench than a measure of actual game performance.