A8-3850 vs. Core i3-2100 CPU Review

Far Cry 2

Far Cry 2 is based on an entire new game engine called Dunia, which is based on DirectX 10 when played under Windows 7 or Windows Vista with a DirectX 10-compatible video card. We used the benchmarking utility that comes with this game, setting video resolution to 1440 x 900, overall image quality to “high” (this  is the lowest possible setting if you want to run this game at DirectX 10), setting all “Performance” options to “low,” disabling both anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering, and running the demo “Ranch Long.” The results below are expressed in frames per second.

Here the A8-3850 was 30% faster than the Core i3-2100. A GeForce GT 430 was 53% faster than the integrated video of the A8-3850, and 104% faster than the integrated video of the Core i3-2100.