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Intel Pentium G850 Sandy Bridge 2.9GHz CPU Review
| Manufacturer: | Intel |
| Product: | Intel G850 w/ PN: BX80623G850 |
| Date: | Mon, Aug 08, 2011 - 12:00 AM |
| Written By: | Nathan Kirsch - |
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
The events of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat unfold shortly after the end of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl following the ending in which Strelok destroys the C-Consciousness. Having discovered the open path to the Zone's center, the government decides to stage a large-scale operation to take control of the Chernobyl nuclear plant.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat utilizes the XRAY 1.6 Engine, allowing advanced modern graphical features through the use of DirectX 11 to be fully integrated; one outstanding feature being the inclusion of real-time GPU tessellation. Regions and maps feature photo realistic scenes of the region it is made to represent. There is also extensive support for older versions of DirectX, meaning that Call of Pripyat is also compatible with older DirectX 8, 9, 10 and 10.1 graphics cards.
The game S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: CoP has no internal benchmarking tools built into the game engine, but they do have a standalone benchmark available that we used for our testing purposes. The screen capture above shows the main window of the benchmark with our settings. Notice we are running Enhanced Full Dynamic Lighting "DX10" as our renderer. Under the advanced settings we disabled tessellation, MSAA and ambient occlusion.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat looks to only be threaded for one CPU core as you can see from the Windows Task Manager screen capture that was done during a benchmark run.
Benchmark Results: S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat once again showed that the Intel Core i3-2120, Pentium G850 and the Pentium G620 all have nearly identical performance numbers. If you are going for gaming performance you won't find much of a difference between the Intel LGA1155 processors that use Intel HD 2000 graphics processors.
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Page 1 - Intel Pentium G850 Processor Review
Page 2 - The Test System Page 3 - CPU-Z, GPU-Z and Windows Index Score Page 4 - SiSoftware Sandra 2011 SP3 Page 5 - x264 HD Encoding Page 6 - CyberLink MediaEspresso 6.5 Page 7 - Handbrake Page 8 - POV-Ray 3.7 RC3 Page 9 - Cinebench R11.5 Page 10 - PCMark 7 Page 11 - 3DMark Vantage Page 12 - Resident Evil 5 Page 13 - H.A.W.X. 2 Benchmark Page 14 - S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat Page 15 - Discrete Graphics Card Performance Page 16 - Total System Power Consumption Page 17 - Intel Pentium G850 Temperature Testing Page 18 - Intel Pentium G850 Overclocking Page 19 - Final Thoughts and Conclusions |
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