AMD Athlon X2 7750 & 7550 CPUs

December 15, 2008 | 00:40

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Far Cry 2

Publisher: Ubisoft

Far Cry 2 is the latest first person shooter from Ubisoft, and while it continues the Far Cry franchise that Crytek started in 2004, this game is built on its own in-house engine and has no association - other than its name - to anything Crytek has worked on or is working on now.

The game uses DirectX 10.1 to improve anti-aliasing performance and quality. The improvements are made by reading the multisampled depth buffer in a single pass - something that was only introduced officially with DirectX 10.1. However, Ubisoft has also made the enhancements available to Nvidia hardware as well through a DirectX 10 extension.

We used a retail version of the game and the in-built gameplay demo set to Ultra-Very High settings under DirectX 10.

Far Cry 2 - GeForce GTX 280

1680x1050 0AA 0AF, Ultra High Settings

  • AMD Athlon X2 7750 BE (2x2.7GHz, 1.8GHz HTT)
  • AMD Athlon X2 7550 (2x2.5GHz, 1.8GHz HTT)
  • AMD Athlon X2 6000+ (2x3.1GHz, 1.0GHz HTT)
  • AMD Phenom X3 8450 (3x2.1GHz, 1.8GHz HTT)
  • AMD Athlon X2 5200+ (2x2.7GHz, 1.0GHz HTT)
  • Intel Core 2 Duo E5200 (2x2.5GHz, 800MHz FSB)
  • AMD Athlon X2 4850e (2x2.5GHz, 1.0GHz HTT)
    • 45.2
    • 28.6
    • 43.1
    • 27.3
    • 42.2
    • 26.3
    • 41.7
    • 26.3
    • 40.5
    • 24.5
    • 39.0
    • 24.7
    • 36.0
    • 22.5
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10
20
30
40
50
Frames Per Second - higher is better
  • Average
  • Minimum

It's a great result for AMD here, as Far Cry 2 is surprisingly unfavourable to the Intel CPU as it drops quite far down the table, between the other K8 CPUs and below the lower clocked Phenom tri-core even. The Intel E5200 still outperforms the older AMD Athlon X2 4850e, but it's several frames per second off the Athlon X2 7550.

In fact, both the AMD Kumas perform exceptionally well here - the 2.5GHz 7550 stretching a lead even over the 3.1GHz 6000+ and the 7750 tops the table stretching out several frames per second over the Intel CPU and the similarly clocked, older Athlon X2 K8.

Far Cry 2 - Radeon HD 4830

1280x1024 0AA 0AF, High Settings

  • AMD Athlon X2 7750 BE (2x2.7GHz, 1.8GHz HTT)
  • AMD Athlon X2 7550 (2x2.5GHz, 1.8GHz HTT)
  • AMD Phenom X3 8450 (3x2.1GHz, 1.8GHz HTT)
  • AMD Athlon X2 6000+ (2x3.1GHz, 1.0GHz HTT)
  • Intel Core 2 Duo E5200 (2x2.5GHz, 800MHz FSB)
  • AMD Athlon X2 5200+ (2x2.7GHz, 1.0GHz HTT)
  • AMD Athlon X2 4850e (2x2.5GHz, 1.0GHz HTT)
    • 47.6
    • 29.9
    • 45.2
    • 28.4
    • 42.9
    • 26.9
    • 41.7
    • 26.4
    • 40.8
    • 25.6
    • 38.1
    • 23.2
    • 35.1
    • 21.0
0
10
20
30
40
50
Frames Per Second - higher is better
  • Average
  • Minimum

The result is pretty much the same between the two graphics cards, although the Athlon X2 7750 nudges out a slightly further lead from six to seven frames per second over the Intel E5200, even despite the Intel moving up the stable ahead of the 5200+. Again, like before, both of the Kumas perform excellently here, even in clock to clock performance.
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