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 1024x768 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 again all CPUs achieved exactly the same performance, meaning that on this game the video card was the component limiting the performance, not the CPU. Nowadays for a better gaming performance it is better to have a more expensive video card than a more expensive CPU with an entry-level video card.