Athlon II X2 240e and Athlon II X3 435 CPU Review

Half-Life 2: Episode Two

Half-Life 2 is a popular franchise and we benchmarked the video cards using Episode Two with the aid of HOC Half-Life 2 Episode Two benchmarking utility using the “HOC Demo 1” provided by this program. We ran the game under 1024×768 with no anti-aliasing and bilinear filtering, i.e., using the lowest image quality possible. The results, given in frames per second, you see below.

Here Athlon II X2 240e + AMD785G was 138.24% faster than Celeron E3200 + Intel G45 and Athlon II X3 435 + AMD785G was 97.54% faster than Pentium E5200 + Intel G45.
Of course these numbers represent the performance of the motherboard, not the CPU.
When we installed a GeForce 9600 GT Athlon II X2 240e was 37.84% faster than Celeron E3200 and Athlon II X3 435 was 15.03% faster than Pentium E5200.