A bit of the same old story with a new coat of paint, AMD raping intel in battlefield 2..... a 2.8ghz Athlon Fx is oh.. only 2.5 times faster than the 2.8ghz P4 , and still 40% faster than the fastest pentium Xtreme Edition .
Yea crixx, intel is kicking ALOT of @ss , namely its own cheating , monopolistic behind .
On a more important note , new graphics drivers and games are finally multithreaded ,allowing dual core cpu's to really shine in these games ...
However, the major intrigue is not about the victory of Athlon 64 over Pentium 4. As you can see from the diagram, CPUs with two computational cores run faster in Serious Sam 2 than single-core processors working at the same frequency. It means that this game uses parallel computational threads actively enough, and it is a very big achievement, because there hasn’t been a single game yet that could boast anything like that.
This graph was taken from a system with the dual-core Athlon 64 X2 4800+ processor. As we see, the overall CPU utilization stays around 60%. It means that Serious Sam 2 also involves the second computational core. However, it would be not quite fair to praise only Croteam guys for the implementation of dual-core support. I have to point out NVIDIA drivers also started supporting dual-core architectures. ForceWare version 81.xx allows enjoying the advantages of dual-core technology in DirectX as well as in OpenGL.
Also note than hyperthreading doesn't help the P4 one bit , the HT enabled dual core is beat by an HT disabled dual core at the same clock .....
AMD continues to be your pimp daddy .
