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 Although the Unreal Tournament 3 results at 1920x1200 place little difference between the slowest and fastest processors tested, the 1024x768 results are more interesting to compare CPU performance. The Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650 manages 225fps, the AMD Phenom II X4 965 fires off 263fps. Then the Core i5 750 is able to average 268fps, making it slightly slower than the 273fps of the Core i7 920.  At 1024x768 the Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650 manages 183fps in Street Fighter IV, which would sound impressive if the Phenom II X4 965 wasn't scoring a whole lot better at 226fps. The Core i5 750 is faster again with 236fps, which is about the limit of the graphics card as the Core i7 processors produced similar results.  Finally we have Far Cry 2, which we like to use as a gaming test platform because it is very demanding on both the GPU and CPU. As a result, even the 1920x1200 results differ quite a bit from processor to processor. When testing at this high resolution the Core 2 Quad Q9650 averages 67fps, while the AMD Phenom II X4 965 is a bit faster at 70fps. The Core i5 750 scores a single frame per second better (71fps). The Core i7 processors did provide a slight performance advantage over the Core i5 750 in this game. |
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