Athlon II X2 240e and Athlon II X3 435 CPU Review
3DMark Vantage Professional
Contents
3DMark Vantage measures Shader 4.0 (i.e., DirectX 10) gaming performance. First we tried to run this program under the “Entry” profile with the motherboard on-board video enabled. Only AMD785G could run this program; Intel G45 could not run 3DMark Vantage even on the “Entry” profile selected. This is old news in the industry: while officially Intel G45 is labeled as being a DirectX 10 part, in fact it can’t run DirectX 10 games or simulations.
The numbers you see below are the results running the “Performance” profile with the GeForce 9600 GT installed.
Under the “Performance” profile from 3DMark Vantage with a GeForce 9600 GT installed Athlon II X2 240e was 24.95% faster than Celeron E3200, but all other CPUs achieved the same performance level.
Comparing exclusively the CPU benchmark results from 3DMark Vantage, Athlon II X2 240e achieved a score 6.68% higher than Celeron E3200, while Athlon II X3 435 achieved a score 12.47% higher than Pentium E5200.