AMD's New Year Refresh: Athlon II X4 635, Phenom II X2 555, Athlon II X2 255 & Athlon II X3 440
by Anand Lal Shimpi on January 25, 2010 12:00 AM EST- Posted in
- CPUs
Fallout 3 Game Performance
Bethesda’s latest game uses an updated version of the Gamebryo engine (Oblivion). This benchmark takes place immediately outside Vault 101. The character walks away from the vault through the Springvale ruins. The benchmark is measured manually using FRAPS.
The Phenom II X2 555 BE takes the crown here, equalling the performance of the Phenom II X4 955 (as it should since they're the same chip, with a couple cores difference that is).
Left 4 Dead
Zombies? Check. Zombie killing performance:
The Phenom II X2 555 BE does very well here again, even besting the Core i3 530. This would appear to be AMD's best gaming CPU thus far. The Athlon II X4 635 does well here since there's not much data sharing among all four cores.
FarCry 2 Multithreaded Game Performance
FarCry 2 ships with the most impressive benchmark tool we’ve ever seen in a PC game. Part of this is due to the fact that Ubisoft actually tapped a number of hardware sites (AnandTech included) from around the world to aid in the planning for the benchmark.
For our purposes we ran the CPU benchmark included in the latest patch:
Crysis Warhead
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Eeqmcsq - Monday, January 25, 2010 - link
I'm surprised AMD will release a 95W TDP X6. I hope the clock speed sacrifice isn't too bad on those.AmdInside - Monday, January 25, 2010 - link
Dumb question but none of these processors will work on older AM2 plus motherboards?Taft12 - Tuesday, January 26, 2010 - link
Pardon the yelling, but this is the only answer that matters:SEE THE SUPPORTED CPU LIST ON YOUR MOTHERBOARD'S SUPPORT PAGE
Many old boards don't get BIOS updates. Some do, but you won't know until you check.
nubie - Monday, January 25, 2010 - link
It all depends on the board and manufacturer bios support.If your motherboard is recent (within 1-2 years old), or has a bios update from the manufacturer, then it will work.
Apparently some older boards don't have room on the bios chip to support AM2+ or AM3 processors as well as maintain backwards compatibility, it is a shame.
(I probably just have the rare board that isn't upgradeable.)
nubie - Monday, January 25, 2010 - link
Oops, you said AM2+ , but you spelled out the plusAM2+ is guaranteed to support AM3 processors.
Rand - Monday, January 25, 2010 - link
I can't imagine why they wouldn't, their predecessors all did and there is nothing in the C3 stepping Phenom II's themselves that prevent it.AmdInside - Monday, January 25, 2010 - link
Well, I wasn't sure if these were AMD3 only or AM2/AM3 processors.Slaimus - Monday, January 25, 2010 - link
There are no such thing as AM3-only processors. AM3 processors work in AM3 and AM2+ boards.All AM3 motherboards are AM3-only, and will not work with AM2 processors.
Rand - Monday, January 25, 2010 - link
What is the stock VCore on the X4 910e?pattycake0147 - Monday, January 25, 2010 - link
The link referencing hardware C1E on page 1 is broken.