Left 4 Dead Performance

Left 4 Dead – Direct3D

Notes

Unlike previous Source engine games, Left 4 Dead is fully capable of taking advantage of multi-core CPUs and we made sure to enable that setting when testing. The Phenom II 940 trails the Q9400 by 3% at 800x600 with low quality settings. The gap narrows to less than 1% at 1600x1200 with high settings. As you can see though some of the slower CPUs are holding back the Radeon 4870 X2 GPU, with Core 2 Q6600 and Phenom 9950 running over 10% slower than the Phenom II 940.