Crysis

Website: Crysis

Crysis is seen by many as the poster boy for DirectX 10 and it will make your system quite literally fall over crying if it's not up to – it’s a monster of an engine! It doesn’t come as much of a surprise then, that the graphics are something special – they’re above and beyond anything we’ve ever seen in a PC game even still.

We used the 1.2 patch and range the game in 64-bit and DirectX 9 mode in a custom level run through.

X3: Terran Conflict

Website: X3: Terran Conflict

The space simulator X3: Terran Conflict makes a good benchmark for any high-end CPU, as its complex economic model and mammoth playing environment give the processor lots to think about.



Disappointingly, the six-core Opteron 2435s were underwhelming in our two game benchmarks, Crysis and X3: Terran Conflict. The Opteron 2435s were slightly faster than the Opteron 2382s in Crysis, with a minimum and average frame rate of 23fps/30fps respectively, compared to 21fps/28fps for the Opteron 2382s. However, X3: Terran Conflict ran slightly faster on the Opteron 2382s. Clearly, however, if you want to run games on your dual-processor workstation then a pair of Xeon W5580s is a far superior choice, as they ran Crysis with a minimum and average frame rate of 36fps and 47fps respectively, and were also significantly faster than the either Opteron system in X3: Terran Conflict.