This AT CPU benchmark (old)

[jana519]

I'm looking at this Anandtech benchmark between two older CPUs, the E8600 and the G620. http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/54?vs=406

Both are pretty even in gaming with the E8600 having a slight edge in Crysis Warhead, Far Cry 2, and Left 4 Dead. But the G620 absolutely crushes the E8600 in Dragon Age Origins. Why the big difference?

 

[ShintaiDK]

Memory controller would be a possibility.

 

[jana519]

Memory controller would be a possibility.

See I was thinking that the Dragon Age game might be poorly coded and relies heavily on single thread and the others are more multi-threaded, does that make sense?

 

[ShintaiDK]

See I was thinking that the Dragon Age game might be poorly coded and relies heavily on single thread and the others are more multi-threaded, does that make sense?

No they are both dualcores.

 

[Blitzvogel]

Might be the integrated memory controller as stated earlier, or even the much higher GFLOPS per clock of Sandy Bridge vs Wolfdale.

 

[jana519]

No they are both dualcores.

Ah OK, my comment doesn't make any sense then. Never mind it 😀

Someone else also said integrated memory controller, so two opinions pointing to the same thing would be enough to convince me. Thanks!