Athlon II X4 635 and Phenom II X2 555 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 Phenom II X2 555 + AMD785G was 4% faster than Athlon II X4 620 and 55% faster than Pentium E6300 + Intel G45. Athlon II X4 635 + AMD785G was 49% faster than Core 2 Duo E7500 + Intel G45.

Of course these numbers represent the performance of the motherboard, not the CPU.

When we installed a GeForce 9600 GT Phenom II X2 555 was the fastest CPU (probably due to its higher clock rate), being 49% faster than Pentium E6300, 14% faster than Athlon II X4 620, 21% faster than Athlon II X4 635 and 21% faster than Core 2 Duo E7500. Core 2 Duo E7500 and Athlon II X4 635 achieved the same performance on this game.