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(Author: Michael Schuette, April 27, 2008) | |
Gaming Performance
3DMark '06
It is somewhat ironic that the major driving force for computer development, namely gaming, also appears to be the one genre of application that is using the most anachronistic code. In other words, games like Crysis etc are essentially single-threaded and can't take advantage of multiple cores. To the excuse of Crysis and other similar games it has to be said that CPU performance is really not the limiting factor here at all, rather it is the graphics system that holds back gaming performance. Nonetheless, there is a silver lining on the horizon, Epic with their Unreal Engine is taking over the gaming world with an entire slew of the currently best games out there, from Bioshock to UT3 and Timeshift and to add the icing to the cake, all those games are multithreaded. Aside from real games, there is still, however, the mother of all gaming CPU measurements, that is 3DMark '06. Even if it has hardly any practical value, it is an interesting measure of multithreaded processor performance. Needless to say that we are talking about the CPU benchmark only.
Score, higher is better! No surprises here either, three cores deliver 75% of the performance of a quad core CPU.
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