FX-8350 vs. Core i5-3470 CPU Review

Borderlands 2

Borderlands 2 is a very recent game, released in 2012, supporting NVIDIA’s PhysX technology. We used the in-game benchmarking utility at 1920×1080, disabling PhysX, anti-aliasing, and anisotropic filtering, and configuring all image quality settings at their lowest values. As mentioned before, 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 this game, all CPUs achieved the same performance level, except for the Phenom II X6 1100T, which was 4.1% slower than the FX-8350.