- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Click for a performance graph of current desktop proccesors.
The 'scores' were calculated by averaging out the FPS each CPU attained in UT2K4, Far Cry, and Doom 3. This provided a wide sample of the OpenGL, DX8, and DX9 environments. The average FPS was then multiplied by .1 for simplicity's sake. The scores are rounded to the nearest tenth of a decimal.
The tests, which were obtained from THG, utilized 2GB of RAM at stock system speeds, one 7800GTX 512MB, etc - basically, the only differences were the motherboards and sockets, and this of course cannot be avoided.
Keep in mind that this is gaming performance only - nothing related to multimedia work has been considered.
***If you can't view it well, hold your mouse over the picture for a few seconds. A small picture frame in the lower left corner will appear. Click it and it will bring the image to its full size***
I'll write more once I have access to all of my files at home...