A8-3870K vs. Core i3-2105 CPU Review
Far Cry 2
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Released in 2008, Far Cry 2 is based on a game engine called Dunia, which is DirectX 10. We used the benchmarking utility that comes with this game, setting video resolution to 1440×900, 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 A8-3870K was 33% faster than the Core i3-2100 and the Core i3-2105, achieving the same performance level of the A8-3850.
When we added a Radeon HD 6570, the video performance of the A8-3870K literally doubled. With this video card installed, this CPU was 43% faster than the Core i3-2105 and 39% faster than the Core i3-2100, also with the Radeon HD 6570 installed.