Comprehensive CPU benchmarks

[biostud]

In order to reveal the performance dependence on the CPU speed we had to set lower resolution, disable anti-aliasing, reduce the textures quality, etc. In these testing conditions all CPUs provided more or less acceptable fps rate.

In other words, in real gaming conditions the performance will still be limited by the graphics processor, and not by the CPU.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/28cpu-games.html

 

[BlingBlingArsch]

there was another thread with the same issue, but good review anyways

 

[CalvinHobbes]

Just saw this article this morning. Very interesting.

 

[biostud]

You can only wonder if newer game engines will start to include more CPU heavy calculating, and specially when.

 

[ribbon13]

I'm betting an Opteron 175 will be sufficient for gaming for at least 3 generations of GPUs/games

 

[biostud]

Originally posted by: ribbon13
I'm betting an Opteron 175 will be sufficient for gaming for at least 3 generations of GPUs/games

I'm hoping this too, specially with PPU appearing (depending on their succes though)

 

[anandtechrocks]

I would have thought AMD's offerings would have been much higher than Intel's. That Pentium 4 at 4.2 GHz is very competitive.