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    CPUs benchmarks for gaming?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by TommyB0y, Apr 26, 2008.

  1. TommyB0y

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    Is there an actual benchmark of game performace for CPUs? Like old C2Ds vs new C2Ds vs AMD Turion X2s? Using the same graphics cards of course.

    Where is the point that CPU performance does not provide better gaming performance for todays games? Not only in clock frequency, but the FSB and cache as well.

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    K-TRON Hi, I'm Jimmy Diesel ^_^

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    Any core 2 duo over 2Ghz, will have more than enough processing power for todays games. Pretty much any core 2 duo mobile processor has more power than even the fastest mobile gpu can offer. If you want an amd turion, a 2.5Ghz turion will be about the same speed as a 1.8-2.0Ghz core 2 duo processor.

    If you download a copy of SISandra, you can go into the benchmark tab, and find comparitive cpu benchmarks between most of the mobile processors on the market.

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    Thanks K-Tron, that is pretty much what I have gathered from reading a lot of posts, where people say this. I would agree that somewhere above 2GHz it doesn't matter so much for todays games, although maybe tomorrow someone will come out with a game that does. I remember the days before AGP graphics that much was reliant on CPU power. With all this extra CPU headroom we have people will start taking advantage of it.

    I don't think anyone has actually collaborated such a review to show where that performance CPU performance in gaming ceiling is. The lack of responses would support that conclusion.

    I also think it is incorrect to say a 2.5Ghz Turion is the same speed as 2Ghz C2D. There may be applications which run faster on a C2D, but in raw floating point calulations the Ghz matters a lot, and the 2.5Ghz Turion would smoke the 2Ghz C2D. I think it is much the same in gaming, that because the Turion has the onboard memory controller it may actually perform better in gaming, because it does perform calculations faster.
     
    TommyB0y, Apr 28, 2008
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    most C2D processors will not be the bottleneck in the system.. but rather the GPU. the problem arises when you play games like flight simulator x or supreme commander, games that require alot of processing power - thats when you need a better processor :D
     
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