FX-8350 vs. Core i5-3470 CPU Review

DiRT3

DiRT3 is a DirectX 11 game. We measured performance using this game by running a race and then playing it back using FRAPS. We tested this game at 1920×1080, configuring all image quality settings at their lowest values, disabling anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering. As already explained, when benchmarking CPUs, we need to lower the image quality settings in order to get a very high number of frames per second; otherwise, we will be benchmarking the video card.

On DiRT3, the Core i5-3470 was 4% faster than the FX-8350, which achieved the same performance level as the Core i5-2500K and the FX-8150, and was 4% faster than the Phenom II X6 1100T.