1 00:00:07,520 --> 00:00:15,120 All right, guys. I got a good one for you. I'm going to take the Phantom 2X6 2 00:00:11,280 --> 00:00:18,400 1100T and I'm going to take two Radeon 3 00:00:15,120 --> 00:00:21,920 HD 6970s. Okay. Yes. Yes. This is a 4 00:00:18,400 --> 00:00:24,000 6950, but just to prove that I have 5 00:00:21,920 --> 00:00:29,760 successfully unlocked the card. You can see here both GPUs are identical under 6 00:00:26,880 --> 00:00:36,800 GPUZ. So, I do have them performing at 100% 6970 speeds. And I'm going to be 7 00:00:33,360 --> 00:00:38,559 comparing the 1100T on the 890 FX 8 00:00:36,800 --> 00:00:44,160 platform. See, I've got a Crosshair 4 formula there. And I'm going to compare 9 00:00:40,559 --> 00:00:48,719 it against the A75 platform 10 00:00:44,160 --> 00:00:50,399 and AMD's new A8 APU. So, I'm going to 11 00:00:48,719 --> 00:00:54,960 find out what kind of a performance difference there is between their new 12 00:00:52,160 --> 00:00:59,199 APU platform, which does have slightly higher performance per clock than at 13 00:00:57,360 --> 00:01:03,680 least the Athlon series. So, it should be pretty close to a Phenom 2, okay, in 14 00:01:02,239 --> 00:01:07,600 terms of clock forc clock performance, but this is a quad core. And on the 15 00:01:06,080 --> 00:01:11,200 higherend platforms, you can get six cores now and eight cores coming soon. 16 00:01:09,520 --> 00:01:15,840 So, let's see how this goes. I'm going to be testing a variety of current 17 00:01:12,799 --> 00:01:18,080 titles including Crisis 2, DirectX11, 18 00:01:15,840 --> 00:01:23,439 Witcher 2, Dirt 3, Fear 3, Battlefield Bad Company 2, and Civ 5. Don't mind the 19 00:01:21,920 --> 00:01:27,439 other things on here, that's going to be for something else. Small change to the 20 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:33,520 methodology, guys. I'm going to be using my 6990 because Crisis 2, apparently, in 21 00:01:31,040 --> 00:01:39,119 spite of using the 11.6 six drivers, the latest uh profiles, and the latest patch 22 00:01:36,640 --> 00:01:43,360 of Crisis 2, including DirectX11 and high-res textures. 23 00:01:41,280 --> 00:01:48,159 Still doesn't work in Crossfire. Go figure. So, these are all the runs of 24 00:01:45,920 --> 00:01:52,960 Crisis 2 I did trying to go. Okay, single card, multicard, single card. Oh, 25 00:01:51,680 --> 00:01:57,119 you guys can't see the results that I'm bringing up. So, you can see that we're 26 00:01:55,200 --> 00:02:01,200 getting some pretty good consistency there. In spite of the fact that I was 27 00:01:58,560 --> 00:02:07,680 switching between a single 6T970 and dual 6T970. So, I throw the 6T990 on 28 00:02:04,320 --> 00:02:08,959 there. All of a sudden, I get 49.5 FPS. 29 00:02:07,680 --> 00:02:16,160 So, we're going to stick with that for our testing. So, I'll be testing that against the 1100T or with the 1100T 30 00:02:12,959 --> 00:02:19,120 against the A75 platform. So, I've got 31 00:02:16,160 --> 00:02:23,680 myself a benchmarking snack bowl. Unrelated to that though, I have 32 00:02:20,959 --> 00:02:29,440 finished running my tests for the 1100T which was here. So that's running on the 33 00:02:26,720 --> 00:02:34,560 Crosshair 4 formula with the 6T990. And then on my other platform, I've got the 34 00:02:31,680 --> 00:02:39,120 AMD Lano A83850 running with exactly the same test bench 35 00:02:36,560 --> 00:02:43,599 with the 6990. So, I ran a variety of modern games, and what I found is that 36 00:02:41,360 --> 00:02:49,760 with an identical configuration. Remember, with the APU, we're only 37 00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:54,959 taking advantage of the CPU component of it because the onboard graphics turns 38 00:02:51,920 --> 00:02:57,760 off if you install anything higherend 39 00:02:54,959 --> 00:03:02,560 than about a shoot, what is this? Turks, I think it's 6670. 40 00:03:00,640 --> 00:03:06,239 So, if you install anything higherend than something that looks about like 41 00:03:03,840 --> 00:03:10,319 this, it is going to turn itself off because it's not going to provide any 42 00:03:07,760 --> 00:03:15,680 additional benefit in dual graphics mode. Okay. So, we're looking at its 43 00:03:12,959 --> 00:03:19,920 performance strictly as a gaming CPU against the 1100T, which is AMD's cream 44 00:03:18,319 --> 00:03:23,760 of the cream. Now, I think you'll find that in terms of price toerformance 45 00:03:21,680 --> 00:03:28,319 ratio, it's pretty darn impressive. So, the games I tested were Crisis 2. This 46 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:33,200 is DirectX11 with the high resolution texture pack. So, everything is maxed 47 00:03:30,080 --> 00:03:35,920 out in this game. In fact, if I bring up 48 00:03:33,200 --> 00:03:39,599 my little email that I made for myself outlining all of my benchmarking 49 00:03:37,760 --> 00:03:45,920 settings. Uh, yeah, there we go. Okay, I don't have Crisis 2 in there, but whatever. It's It's all maximum uh with 50 00:03:43,760 --> 00:03:50,080 the DirectX11 in the high-res pack. Actually, no, I think I'm at Okay, give 51 00:03:47,599 --> 00:03:56,560 me a sec. Okay, sorry guys. For Crisis 2, I'm using all extreme presets and 52 00:03:52,959 --> 00:04:00,720 then um I'm running at obviously 1920x 53 00:03:56,560 --> 00:04:03,120 1080 and DirectX11 is enabled and the uh 54 00:04:00,720 --> 00:04:09,519 uber high-res textures are enabled. So for Crisis 2, the 1100T performed about 55 00:04:06,400 --> 00:04:11,680 10% faster than the A8 APU with exactly 56 00:04:09,519 --> 00:04:15,680 the same configuration. The Witcher 2 was much closer. It was only about a 5% 57 00:04:13,920 --> 00:04:19,600 difference, which is pretty much, I'd say, within the margin of error because 58 00:04:17,199 --> 00:04:24,400 I am doing game runthroughs. I am not doing canned benchmarks on Crisis 2, 59 00:04:22,320 --> 00:04:28,400 Witcher 2, Fear 3, and Battlefield Bad Company 2. So, there is some variance, 60 00:04:26,880 --> 00:04:34,320 although I do my best to run through exactly the same way every time. Now, 61 00:04:30,639 --> 00:04:37,919 Dirt 3 was one where the 1100T just blew 62 00:04:34,320 --> 00:04:41,120 away the A8PU. It performed about 30% 63 00:04:37,919 --> 00:04:42,479 better. So, 25 30% better. And Fear 3 64 00:04:41,120 --> 00:04:45,759 was one where they were very close. So, we start to see a pattern here. Uh, come 65 00:04:44,400 --> 00:04:52,400 in and have a closer look at the graph. So, we start to see a pattern here that says 76.2, 2 by the way, sorry guys, 66 00:04:49,680 --> 00:04:56,639 where any game that is CPUbound or very multi-core aware is going to perform 67 00:04:54,320 --> 00:05:00,320 better on the 1100T platform, whereas any game where we're already quite 68 00:04:58,080 --> 00:05:04,080 graphically bound, such as The Witcher 2 or Fear 3, we're not going to see much 69 00:05:02,320 --> 00:05:09,680 of a difference in performance. Battlefield Bad Company 2, um, perhaps 70 00:05:06,720 --> 00:05:14,240 due to the increased CPU, uh, load in that game, it does a lot of physics 71 00:05:11,360 --> 00:05:20,160 effects on the CPU, performed about 20 22% better on the 1100T. And finally, 72 00:05:17,199 --> 00:05:25,120 Civ 5 performed about 10% better. And Civ 5, I was using a late game view uh 73 00:05:23,280 --> 00:05:29,840 of a game that I actually played. I have about 40 cities. So, what I do is I 74 00:05:28,240 --> 00:05:34,160 center it over one of my cities and then pull out all the way and see what the 75 00:05:31,280 --> 00:05:38,400 frame rate is in the corner. So, thank you guys for checking out my little 76 00:05:35,919 --> 00:05:44,560 gaming performance showdown between AMD's highestend CPU and then their new 77 00:05:42,479 --> 00:05:49,440 just phenomenal, although I can't really call it phenomenal because it's not even 78 00:05:46,160 --> 00:05:52,000 a Phenom. Um, wa that's mind-blowing, 79 00:05:49,440 --> 00:05:56,400 right? And their new APU. So, stay tuned for more APU content around the 3850. 80 00:05:54,880 --> 00:06:00,800 And don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips for more unboxings, reviews, 81 00:05:57,919 --> 00:06:00,800 and other computer