AMD Phenom 9600
by Marc Prieur
Published on December 3, 2007
Crysis, World In Conflict, Flight Sim X
The latest very popular FPS, Crysis, whose demo was just released is used for its processor test integrated to the game. In Crysis, with two active cores K10 increases performances roughly 15% compared to K8. This is good but only barely enough to surpass the A64 X2 6400+. In the end, Core 2s are significantly faster.
World In Conflict is a recent real time strategy game with a rather resource heavy integrated benchmark. The gap with Intel processors widens in World In Conflict despite a 13.3% gain due to the new architecture. The Phenom 9600 only has 79% of the performances of a Q6600.
We finish in Flight Simulator X with the framerate obtained when flying over New York after taking off from JFK in high quality. K10 does 19% better but this is not enough to surpass an A64 X2 6400+ and is even further away from Core 2s.
