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| AMD's Phenom X4 9850 - Silicon Revision B3 | |
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(Author: Michael Schuette, April 6, 2008) |
Gaming Performance
First Encounter Assault Recon (F.E.A.R.)
Fear is among the better games with respect to multithreading and it was running exceptionally well on the Phenom 9900- and likewise on the 9600 Black Edition. For whatever reason, the 9850 was not able to follow in the footsteps of its predecessors, no matter what we tried, we got some quirky results that settled around an average frame rate of some 210 fps. Because of the somewhat anomalous behavior, we thought about dropping F.E.A.R. altogehter. On the other hand, we cannot show only the cherry results, reviews don't work like that.
F.E.A.R. (640x 480, medium quality, Volumetric Lighting enabled at medium). One of the oddities we found with F.E.A.R. and the X4 9850 is that the latter seemed absolutely resistant to use more than a single core, whereas in previous benchmarks we always saw at least 2 cores getting hit by F.E.A.R.
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