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Hi all,
I thought I would post some benchmarks showing the difference in hardware between my previous and current system as requested by some people in my previous upgrade spec thread here:
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18228850&highlight=username_clark+white
I thought this thread would be interesting, and hopefully useful for anyone else who's previous system was as obsolete as mine - to give a idea of the kind of performance boost an upgrade will bring,
as well as show how much my graphics card was being bottlenecked by my cpu.
I would have liked to have benchmarked games like Cyrsis etc but in the end I didn't have the time as the hardware didn't arrive in time at the weekend.
I ran the games in DX10 on win 7 rather than DX 9 (like I did on xp) as I didn't think it would make much of a difference anyway.
My graphics card is the only part of my previous system I kept.
previous system:
Athlon 4200 x2 (socket 939; OC @2.5Ghz)
asrock dual sata2 motherboard
2gb corsair XMS ddr 4000
Nvidea 460gtx (768mb)
win xp 32bit
Current system:
sandybridge i5-2500k @stock (3.3Ghz)
Asus p8P67 motherboard
8gb G.skill Ripjaw PC3-12800C9
Nvidea 460gtx (768mb)
Win 7 Ultimate 64bit
Cinebench 11.5 (default settings) I found the open GL score on this benchmark interesting as it shows the bottleneck that my AMD was to my graphics card: note over twice the score for openGL!
AMD:_________________Sandybridge:
openGL: 22.53__________48.76
CPU: 1.09pts___________5.14pts
Metro 2033 (1024x768 med setting but 4xAF using official standalone benchmarking tool in metro directory) (in fps)
AMD:_________________Sandybridge:
Minimum: 3.7___________9.7
Average: 12 (lol!)_______70
Maximum: 52.3_________151
Batman Arkham Asylum in game benchmark 1680x1050 (all high except physx accel at normal) (in fps)
AMD:_________________Sandybridge
Minimum: 14___________48
Average: 44___________92
Maximum: 86__________146
Doom 3: 1280x1024 ultra settings (with 8xFSAA timedemo1 using cache)
AMD: 2148 frame in 26.2 sec (82fps)-I can't make out my writing on this one but I think this is right!
Sandybridge: 2148 frames in 15.5 seconds (138.8 fps)
Resident Evil 5 (built in benchmarks 1280x720 shadows, textures, graphics high) (in fps)
AMD:_________________Sandybridge:
Fixed: 17.3____________70
Variable: 38.6__________133.8
forgive all the underscores but it's the only way I can align the results on the same rows!
I thought I would post some benchmarks showing the difference in hardware between my previous and current system as requested by some people in my previous upgrade spec thread here:
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18228850&highlight=username_clark+white
I thought this thread would be interesting, and hopefully useful for anyone else who's previous system was as obsolete as mine - to give a idea of the kind of performance boost an upgrade will bring,
as well as show how much my graphics card was being bottlenecked by my cpu.
I would have liked to have benchmarked games like Cyrsis etc but in the end I didn't have the time as the hardware didn't arrive in time at the weekend.
I ran the games in DX10 on win 7 rather than DX 9 (like I did on xp) as I didn't think it would make much of a difference anyway.
My graphics card is the only part of my previous system I kept.
previous system:
Athlon 4200 x2 (socket 939; OC @2.5Ghz)
asrock dual sata2 motherboard
2gb corsair XMS ddr 4000
Nvidea 460gtx (768mb)
win xp 32bit
Current system:
sandybridge i5-2500k @stock (3.3Ghz)
Asus p8P67 motherboard
8gb G.skill Ripjaw PC3-12800C9
Nvidea 460gtx (768mb)
Win 7 Ultimate 64bit
Cinebench 11.5 (default settings) I found the open GL score on this benchmark interesting as it shows the bottleneck that my AMD was to my graphics card: note over twice the score for openGL!
AMD:_________________Sandybridge:
openGL: 22.53__________48.76
CPU: 1.09pts___________5.14pts
Metro 2033 (1024x768 med setting but 4xAF using official standalone benchmarking tool in metro directory) (in fps)
AMD:_________________Sandybridge:
Minimum: 3.7___________9.7
Average: 12 (lol!)_______70
Maximum: 52.3_________151
Batman Arkham Asylum in game benchmark 1680x1050 (all high except physx accel at normal) (in fps)
AMD:_________________Sandybridge
Minimum: 14___________48
Average: 44___________92
Maximum: 86__________146
Doom 3: 1280x1024 ultra settings (with 8xFSAA timedemo1 using cache)
AMD: 2148 frame in 26.2 sec (82fps)-I can't make out my writing on this one but I think this is right!
Sandybridge: 2148 frames in 15.5 seconds (138.8 fps)
Resident Evil 5 (built in benchmarks 1280x720 shadows, textures, graphics high) (in fps)
AMD:_________________Sandybridge:
Fixed: 17.3____________70
Variable: 38.6__________133.8
forgive all the underscores but it's the only way I can align the results on the same rows!