Athlon II X4 640 vs. Core i3 530 CPU Review

Far Cry 2

Far Cry 2 is based on an entirely new game engine called Dunia, which is 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 and configuring  image quality settings to their minimum values. We ran the “Ranch Long” demo and the results below are expressed in frames per second.

With the integrated graphics engine enabled, both processors achieved the same performance level. As you can see the number of frames per second was again too low for us to consider this game “playable” using integrated video solutions.

When we install our Radeon HD 5670, the Core i3-530 was a tiny bit (4%) faster than the Athlon II 640.