Unreal Tournament III

Unreal Tournament III

Notes

We used the botmatch technique for benchmarking Unreal Tournament, populating our map with 24 characters, 12 to a side.

At 800x600, the large cache and frequency advantage of the dual-core E8500 gives it a tremendous lead over all of the other CPUs. That gap tapers off a bit at 1280x1024, as both Intel processors match pace. As you look at 1600x1200, the quad-core Q6600 takes the lead, followed by the E8500.

AMD’s Phenoms trail at each step of the way. At 1600x1200, however, the difference isn’t as pronounced. Overall, the X4 9850 won’t buy you much more than the older Phenom 9600 at the higher resolutions.