Clock Speed Scaling – Mountains

Oblivion – Direct3D

Oblivion Performance 800x600x32
CPU	Min FPS	Max FPS
A64 2.0GHz	72	109
A64 2.2GHz	77	117
A64 2.4GHz	81	120
A64 2.6GHz	88	130
A64 2.8GHz	91	137
A64 X2 2.2GHz	90	132
A64 X2 2.4GHz	96	140
A64 X2 2.6GHz	101	147

Notes

At 800x600, clock speed definitely plays a large role in Oblivion’s performance, with the Athlon 64 series really showing improved performance once you make the jump from 2.4GHz to 2.6GHz, here we saw an improvement of nearly 9% (although the transition from 2.0GHz to 2.2GHz also shows a nice performance 5% spike).

For the X2 CPUs, we saw the greatest improvement when going from 2.2GHz to 2.4GHz.