| AMD Phenom-II X4-965 BE 125W CPU HDZ965FBK4DGM |  |
| Reviews - Featured Reviews: Processors | |
| Written by Olin Coles | |
| Wednesday, 04 November 2009 | |
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Resident Evil 5 TestsBuilt upon an advanced version of Capcom's proprietary MT Framework game engine to deliver DirectX 10 graphic detail, Resident Evil 5 offers gamers non-stop action similar to Devil May Cry 4, Lost Planet, and Dead Rising. The MT Framework is an exclusive seventh generation game engine built to be used with games developed for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, and PC ports. MT stands for "Multi-Thread", "Meta Tools" and "Multi-Target". Games using the MT Framework are originally developed on the PC and then ported to the other two console platforms. On the PC version of Resident Evil 5, both DirectX 9 and DirectX 10 modes are available for Microsoft Windows XP and Vista Operating Systems. Microsoft Windows 7 will play Resident Evil with backwards compatible Direct3D APIs. Resident Evil 5 is branded with the NVIDIA The Way It's Meant to be Played (TWIMTBP) logo, and receives NVIDIA GeForce 3D Vision functionality enhancements. NVIDIA and Capcom offer the Resident Evil 5 benchmark demo for free download from their website, and Benchmark Reviews encourages visitors to compare their own results to ours. Because the Capcom MT Framework game engine is very well optimized and produces high frame rates, Benchmark Reviews uses the DirectX 10 version of the test at 1920x1200 resolution. Super-High quality settings are configured, with 8x MSAA post processing effects for maximum demand on the GPU. Test scenes from Area #3 and Area #4 require the most graphics processing power, and the results are collected for the chart illustrated below.
Resident Evil 5 has really proved how well the proprietary Capcom MT Framework game engine can look with DirectX 10 effects. The Area 3 and 4 tests are the most graphically demanding from this free downloadable demo benchmark, and help reveal a dominant hardware platform for gamers. These tests confirm that the AMD Phenom-II X4-965 BE processor (either 125W or older 140W versions) helps allow games to perform at their best frame rates. The 5% still doesn't sway favoritism directly towards AMD processors, but it shows that gamers and enthusiasts can expect that their unlocked 'Black Edition' processor can game just as well as it overclocks. But how well does it overclock, anyway?
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Comments
Even if they both used the exact same memory kit for each system, the Intel i5 would still have the advantage of an integrated multimedia controller directly on the CPU.