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.
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Core 2 Duo E8500 (2x3.16GHz, 1,333MHz FSB)
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Core 2 Duo E8400 (2x3.0GHz, 1,333MHz FSB)
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Core 2 Duo E6850 (2x3.0GHz, 1,333MHz FSB)
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Core 2 Duo E6750 (2x2.66GHz, 1,333MHz FSB)
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Core 2 Duo E8200 (2x2.66GHz, 1,333MHz FSB)
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Core 2 Quad Q6700 (4x2.67GHz, 1,066MHz FSB)
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Core 2 Duo E6550 (2x2.33GHz, 1,333MHz FSB)
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Core 2 Duo Q6600 (4x2.40GHz, 1,066MHz FSB)
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AMD Athlon X2 6400+ (2x3.2GHz, 1.0GHz HTT)
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AMD Athlon X2 6000+ (2x3.0GHz, 1.0GHz HTT)
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Core 2 Duo E4500 (2x2.20GHz, 800MHz)
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AMD Phenom 9600 (4x2.3GHz, 1.8GHz HTT)
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AMD Phenom 9500 (4x2.2GHz, 1.8GHz HTT)
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48.3
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47.6
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44.8
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44.2
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43.4
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41.5
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38.4
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38.3
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35.9
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34.7
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32.7
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31.2
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30.6
Frames Per Second - higher is better
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Core 2 Duo E8500 (2x3.16GHz, 1,333MHz FSB)
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Core 2 Duo E8400 (2x3.0GHz, 1,333MHz FSB)
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Core 2 Duo E6850 (2x3.0GHz, 1,333MHz FSB)
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Core 2 Quad Q6700 (4x2.67GHz, 1,066MHz FSB)
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Core 2 Duo E6750 (2x2.66GHz, 1,333MHz FSB)
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Core 2 Duo E8200 (2x2.66GHz, 1,333MHz FSB)
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Core 2 Duo Q6600 (4x2.40GHz, 1,066MHz FSB)
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Core 2 Duo E6550 (2x2.33GHz, 1,333MHz FSB)
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AMD Athlon X2 6400+ (2x3.2GHz, 1.0GHz HTT)
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AMD Athlon X2 6000+ (2x3.0GHz, 1.0GHz HTT)
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AMD Phenom 9600 (4x2.3GHz, 1.8GHz HTT)
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AMD Phenom 9500 (4x2.2GHz, 1.8GHz HTT)
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Core 2 Duo E4500 (2x2.20GHz, 800MHz)
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29.8
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28.2
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27.7
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27.6
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27.5
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27.5
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27.4
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26.4
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25.9
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25.8
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24.7
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24.3
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24.2
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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