Intel Core 2 Duo E8500, E8400 and E8200

April 7, 2008 | 07:28

Tags: #2 #45nm #6mb #cache #core #cpu #duo #e8200 #e8400 #e8500 #evaluation #overclocking #review #wolfdale

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Crysis

Publisher: Electronic Arts

Crysis is seen by many as the poster boy for DirectX 10 and it will make your system cry, quite literally – it’s a monster! It doesn’t come as much of a surprise then, that the graphics are something special – they’re above and beyond anything we’ve ever seen in a PC game.

We used the latest 1.21 patch and range the game in 64-bit and DirectX 10 mode in a custom level run through.

Crysis 1.21

1280x1024, 0xAF, 0xAA, All Medium Settings

  • Core 2 Duo E8500 (2x3.16GHz, 1,333MHz FSB)
  • Core 2 Duo E8400 (2x3.0GHz, 1,333MHz FSB)
  • Core 2 Duo E6850 (2x3.0GHz, 1,333MHz FSB)
  • Core 2 Duo E6750 (2x2.66GHz, 1,333MHz FSB)
  • Core 2 Duo E8200 (2x2.66GHz, 1,333MHz FSB)
  • Core 2 Quad Q6700 (4x2.67GHz, 1,066MHz FSB)
  • Core 2 Duo E6550 (2x2.33GHz, 1,333MHz FSB)
  • Core 2 Duo Q6600 (4x2.40GHz, 1,066MHz FSB)
  • AMD Athlon X2 6400+ (2x3.2GHz, 1.0GHz HTT)
  • AMD Athlon X2 6000+ (2x3.0GHz, 1.0GHz HTT)
  • Core 2 Duo E4500 (2x2.20GHz, 800MHz)
  • AMD Phenom 9600 (4x2.3GHz, 1.8GHz HTT)
  • AMD Phenom 9500 (4x2.2GHz, 1.8GHz HTT)
  • 48.3
  • 47.6
  • 44.8
  • 44.2
  • 43.4
  • 41.5
  • 38.4
  • 38.3
  • 35.9
  • 34.7
  • 32.7
  • 31.2
  • 30.6
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Frames Per Second - higher is better

Crysis 1.21

1600x1200, 0xAF, 0xAA, All High Settings

  • Core 2 Duo E8500 (2x3.16GHz, 1,333MHz FSB)
  • Core 2 Duo E8400 (2x3.0GHz, 1,333MHz FSB)
  • Core 2 Duo E6850 (2x3.0GHz, 1,333MHz FSB)
  • Core 2 Quad Q6700 (4x2.67GHz, 1,066MHz FSB)
  • Core 2 Duo E6750 (2x2.66GHz, 1,333MHz FSB)
  • Core 2 Duo E8200 (2x2.66GHz, 1,333MHz FSB)
  • Core 2 Duo Q6600 (4x2.40GHz, 1,066MHz FSB)
  • Core 2 Duo E6550 (2x2.33GHz, 1,333MHz FSB)
  • AMD Athlon X2 6400+ (2x3.2GHz, 1.0GHz HTT)
  • AMD Athlon X2 6000+ (2x3.0GHz, 1.0GHz HTT)
  • AMD Phenom 9600 (4x2.3GHz, 1.8GHz HTT)
  • AMD Phenom 9500 (4x2.2GHz, 1.8GHz HTT)
  • Core 2 Duo E4500 (2x2.20GHz, 800MHz)
  • 29.8
  • 28.2
  • 27.7
  • 27.6
  • 27.5
  • 27.5
  • 27.4
  • 26.4
  • 25.9
  • 25.8
  • 24.7
  • 24.3
  • 24.2
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Frames Per Second - higher is better

While the E6750 seems to be a bit more at home than the newer E8200, the situation is reversed to a larger degree when you get to the faster E6850 versus the E8400. Both of which pull a couple of frames per second out over the rest of the competition. Crysis seems dependent on clock speed as opposed to core count - the Phenoms and Intel quad-cores don't fair as well as the high clocked dual-core CPUs and even with both AMD and Intel systems running identically clocked DDR2 - the Intel parts still nose ahead by several frames per second.
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