Quake 4

Quake 4

Notes

The margin separating the Core 2 Duo E6400 from the X2 4600+ is a little greater in Quake 4, we’re looking at a 7% difference in performance at 800x600 in favor of Intel’s Core 2 CPU. While this may not sound like much, interestingly enough it’s just enough for the Core 2 Duo E6400 to squeeze ahead of AMD’s Athlon 64 X2 5000+ in our testing. By the time you hit 16x12 we’re bound by the performance of the GPU and performance across all processors is the same.

Again, as we just mentioned on the previous page (or in case you missed if it you’re using the table of contents), don’t forget that the 3500+ and 4800+ are both running on AMD’s older Socket 939 platform. Thanks to the higher memory bandwidth of DDR2, AMD’s new AM2 socket runs slightly faster than Socket 939.