All right, guys. I got a good one for you. I'm going to take the Phantom 2X6
1100T and I'm going to take two Radeon
HD 6970s. Okay. Yes. Yes. This is a
6950, but just to prove that I have
successfully unlocked the card. You can see here both GPUs are identical under
GPUZ. So, I do have them performing at 100% 6970 speeds. And I'm going to be
comparing the 1100T on the 890 FX
platform. See, I've got a Crosshair 4 formula there. And I'm going to compare
it against the A75 platform
and AMD's new A8 APU. So, I'm going to
find out what kind of a performance difference there is between their new
APU platform, which does have slightly higher performance per clock than at
least the Athlon series. So, it should be pretty close to a Phenom 2, okay, in
terms of clock forc clock performance, but this is a quad core. And on the
higherend platforms, you can get six cores now and eight cores coming soon.
So, let's see how this goes. I'm going to be testing a variety of current
titles including Crisis 2, DirectX11,
Witcher 2, Dirt 3, Fear 3, Battlefield Bad Company 2, and Civ 5. Don't mind the
other things on here, that's going to be for something else. Small change to the
methodology, guys. I'm going to be using my 6990 because Crisis 2, apparently, in
spite of using the 11.6 six drivers, the latest uh profiles, and the latest patch
of Crisis 2, including DirectX11 and high-res textures.
Still doesn't work in Crossfire. Go figure. So, these are all the runs of
Crisis 2 I did trying to go. Okay, single card, multicard, single card. Oh,
you guys can't see the results that I'm bringing up. So, you can see that we're
getting some pretty good consistency there. In spite of the fact that I was
switching between a single 6T970 and dual 6T970. So, I throw the 6T990 on
there. All of a sudden, I get 49.5 FPS.
So, we're going to stick with that for our testing. So, I'll be testing that against the 1100T or with the 1100T
against the A75 platform. So, I've got
myself a benchmarking snack bowl. Unrelated to that though, I have
finished running my tests for the 1100T which was here. So that's running on the
Crosshair 4 formula with the 6T990. And then on my other platform, I've got the
AMD Lano A83850 running with exactly the same test bench
with the 6990. So, I ran a variety of modern games, and what I found is that
with an identical configuration. Remember, with the APU, we're only
taking advantage of the CPU component of it because the onboard graphics turns
off if you install anything higherend
than about a shoot, what is this? Turks, I think it's 6670.
So, if you install anything higherend than something that looks about like
this, it is going to turn itself off because it's not going to provide any
additional benefit in dual graphics mode. Okay. So, we're looking at its
performance strictly as a gaming CPU against the 1100T, which is AMD's cream
of the cream. Now, I think you'll find that in terms of price toerformance
ratio, it's pretty darn impressive. So, the games I tested were Crisis 2. This
is DirectX11 with the high resolution texture pack. So, everything is maxed
out in this game. In fact, if I bring up
my little email that I made for myself outlining all of my benchmarking
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
the DirectX11 in the high-res pack. Actually, no, I think I'm at Okay, give
me a sec. Okay, sorry guys. For Crisis 2, I'm using all extreme presets and
then um I'm running at obviously 1920x
1080 and DirectX11 is enabled and the uh
uber high-res textures are enabled. So for Crisis 2, the 1100T performed about
10% faster than the A8 APU with exactly
the same configuration. The Witcher 2 was much closer. It was only about a 5%
difference, which is pretty much, I'd say, within the margin of error because
I am doing game runthroughs. I am not doing canned benchmarks on Crisis 2,
Witcher 2, Fear 3, and Battlefield Bad Company 2. So, there is some variance,
although I do my best to run through exactly the same way every time. Now,
Dirt 3 was one where the 1100T just blew
away the A8PU. It performed about 30%
better. So, 25 30% better. And Fear 3
was one where they were very close. So, we start to see a pattern here. Uh, come
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,
where any game that is CPUbound or very multi-core aware is going to perform
better on the 1100T platform, whereas any game where we're already quite
graphically bound, such as The Witcher 2 or Fear 3, we're not going to see much
of a difference in performance. Battlefield Bad Company 2, um, perhaps
due to the increased CPU, uh, load in that game, it does a lot of physics
effects on the CPU, performed about 20 22% better on the 1100T. And finally,
Civ 5 performed about 10% better. And Civ 5, I was using a late game view uh
of a game that I actually played. I have about 40 cities. So, what I do is I
center it over one of my cities and then pull out all the way and see what the
frame rate is in the corner. So, thank you guys for checking out my little
gaming performance showdown between AMD's highestend CPU and then their new
just phenomenal, although I can't really call it phenomenal because it's not even
a Phenom. Um, wa that's mind-blowing,
right? And their new APU. So, stay tuned for more APU content around the 3850.
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