Crysis

Notes

For our Crysis testing, we’re using the built-in CPU test that ships with the game’s demo. In this test rockets are lobbed at buildings and other objects in the island level. As a result, debris is flying around everywhere. All these physics calculations really push the CPU, which is why we were eager to see how the QX9650 performed.

The Core 2 Extreme QX9650 ran 11% faster than the QX6850 in our testing with Crysis. That’s right in the middle of the other apps we tested with. We also saw a slight gain of 2% when going from a dual-core to quad-core CPU.