AMD Athlon II X4 640: 4-Cores On The Cheap

For our next set of tests, we moved on to some in-game benchmarking with Crysis and Enemy Territory: Quake Wars. When testing processors with Crysis or ET:QW, we drop the resolution to 800x600, and reduce all of the in-game graphical options to their minimum values to isolate CPU and memory performance as much as possible.  However, the in-game effects, which control the level of detail for the games' physics engines and particle systems, are left at their maximum values, since these actually do place some load on the CPU rather than GPU.

The Athlon II X4 640 easily broke the 90FPS mark in both games, but again, these new budget-priced quad-cores from AMD can't quite keep pace with even the older Intel offerings.