Phenom II X4 970 and Phenom II X6 1075T CPU Review
Crysis Warhead
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Crysis Warhead is a DirectX 10 game based on the same engine as the original Crysis, but optimized (it runs under DirectX 9.0c when installed on Windows XP). We ran this game under 1920 x 1200 resolution, setting image quality to “high” and disabling both anisotropic filtering and anti-aliasing using the Airfield demo. The results below are the number of frames per second achieved by each processor.
From the results we can definitely see that this game is GPU-bound, meaning that is the video card, not the CPU, that is limiting its performance. Here the Phenom II X4 970 and Phenom II X4 965 achieved the exact same result, with the Core i5-750 achieving similar performance. The Phenom II X6 1075T was 10% faster than the Phenom II X6 1090T, though, reaching the same performance level as the Core i5-750.