FX-8350 vs. Core i5-3470 CPU Review
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty
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StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty is a very popular DirectX 9 game that was released in 2010. Though this game uses an old version of DirectX, the amount of textures that can be represented on one screen can push most of the top-end graphics cards to their limits. StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty uses its own physics engine that is bound to the CPU and thus does not benefit from PhysX.
We tested this game at 1920×1080, configuring “Texture Quality” and “Graphics Quality” to “Medium.” When benchmarking CPUs, we can’t increase image quality settings; otherwise, we will measure the performance of the video card, not the performance of the CPU. We then used FRAPS to collect the frame rate of a replay on the “Unit Testing” custom map. We used a battle between very large armies to stress the video card.
The advantage of the Core i5-3470 over the FX-8350 on StarCraft II was marginal (4%), with the FX-8350, the FX-8150, and the Core i5-2500K achieving the same performance level.