AMD's New Year Refresh: Athlon II X4 635, Phenom II X2 555, Athlon II X2 255 & Athlon II X3 440

Fallout 3 Game Performance

Bethesda’s latest game uses an updated version of the Gamebryo engine (Oblivion). This benchmark takes place immediately outside Vault 101. The character walks away from the vault through the Springvale ruins. The benchmark is measured manually using FRAPS.

The Phenom II X2 555 BE takes the crown here, equalling the performance of the Phenom II X4 955 (as it should since they're the same chip, with a couple cores difference that is).

Left 4 Dead

Zombies? Check. Zombie killing performance:

The Phenom II X2 555 BE does very well here again, even besting the Core i3 530. This would appear to be AMD's best gaming CPU thus far. The Athlon II X4 635 does well here since there's not much data sharing among all four cores.

FarCry 2 Multithreaded Game Performance

FarCry 2 ships with the most impressive benchmark tool we’ve ever seen in a PC game. Part of this is due to the fact that Ubisoft actually tapped a number of hardware sites (AnandTech included) from around the world to aid in the planning for the benchmark.

For our purposes we ran the CPU benchmark included in the latest patch:

Crysis Warhead