QX9650 performance...

[mrthingyx]

Hmmm... the review of the QX9650 on Guru3D seems to suggest that - brutal encoding, etc. performance notwithstanding - the new Penryn makes no difference whatsoever in games like FEAR/GRAW/Crysis at resolutions above 1280x1024.

In fact, the only significant differences between an Athlon FX-62 and the new Penryn was at 1024x768 in most of the gaming benchmarks.

That's something of a disappointment and not what I'd expected, to be honest.

 

[mrthingyx]

I agree. I just think it's somewhat ironic with all of the eulogies being sung about Core2Due and how Yorkfield is going to tear pretty much everything a new one... and then even at 4Ghz, Penryn doesn't add much, if anythin.

I suppose it's just that point in time where new engines have come out that bring current hardware to its knees...

 

[mrthingyx]

I thought that it was pretty obvious that a top of the range CPU isn't goinng to make a significant or indeed much of a difference for gaming at low resolutions.

What were you expecting?

With all of the willy-waving in anticipation, I was expecting something more than a 1fps boost going from a stock Athlon FX-62 to a 4GHz Yorkfield at 1600x1200 in games like Doom 3, Fear, GRAW and Crysis...