Crysis is a very heavy DirectX 10 game. We updated this game to version 1.2.1 and used the HOC Crysis Benchmarking Utility to help us collecting data. We ran the “island” demo at 1440x900 with low image quality settings, selecting “CPU” when the benchmarking utility asked us what we were benchmarking. The results on the chart below are in frames per second.

Here CPU’s from AMD took a severe beating. Core 2 Duo E8400 was 5.88% faster than Core 2 Quad Q6600, 91.49% faster than Phenom X3 8750 and 100.00% faster than Phenom X4 9550.

Core 2 Quad Q6600 was 80.85% faster than Phenom X3 8750 and 88.89% faster than Phenom X4 9550.

We ran this test twice to make sure that the results were correct.