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LOSTCIRCUITS	SHORTCUTS: A new Platform Quad-FX Idiosyncrasies The Motherboard Test Config, Benchmark Overview Memory Performance The 64-bit Question Idle Power by OS Max Power Render Power (Cinebench) trueSpace POV-Ray Media Encoding 3DMark'06 F.E.A.R., DOOM3 FarCry 1.4 COD2, Prey Final Words Give Us Some Feedback on this Review
AMD's Quad FX Platform What's in a 4x4?
(Author: MS, January 21, 2007)

FarCry

We ran our own recorded demo of the Steam level with 5 bots standing around and doing some funky things - enough to put some decent load on the CPU.

Screenshot from our own recorded Steam level benchmark

Frames per second, higher is better! (processors marked with an * are 65nm Brisbane cores)

Once again, the Quad FX system does not keep up with even the FX-62 system. This is not too surprising since FarCry - just like most other games - is essentially single-threaded and will not take advantage of multiple cores. We tried to run a demo of the next generation of game: Ice Storm Fighters, which heavily relies on multithreading for AI calculations but unfortunately, this application only runs on Intel systems..

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