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Intel Core i7-3960X Sandy Bridge-E Processor Review
| Manufacturer: | Intel |
| Product: | Intel Core i7-3960X CPU |
| Date: | Mon, Nov 14, 2011 - 02:00 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 "DX11" as our renderer. Under the advanced settings we enabled tessellation, MSAA and Screen Space 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 doesn't exactly scale well across multiple cores. The AMD FX-4100 and FX-8150 performed nearly identically on this benchmark.
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Page 1 - Intel Sandy Bridge-E LGA 2011 CPUs Arrive
Page 2 - The Intel X79 Express Chipset & DX79SI Mobo Page 3 - 32 in 32 Promotional Unboxing Page 4 - The Test System Page 5 - SiSoftware Sandra 2011 SP5 Page 6 - x264 HD Encoding Page 7 - CyberLink MediaEspresso 6.5 Page 8 - Handbrake Page 9 - POV-Ray 3.7 RC3 Page 10 - Cinebench R11.5 Page 11 - PCMark 7 Page 12 - 3DMark Vantage Page 13 - Resident Evil 5 Page 14 - H.A.W.X. 2 Benchmark Page 15 - S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat Page 16 - Total System Power Consumption Page 17 - Intel Core i7-3960X CPU Air Temp Testing Page 18 - Intel Core i7-3960X CPU Water Temp Testing Page 19 - Core i7-3960X CPU Overclocking Page 20 - Final Thoughts and Conclusions |
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