AMD/ATI vs. Intel/Nvidia Gaming Performance

Published by Marc Büchel on 10.05.10
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Gaming Benchmarks

PT Boats

PT Boats Knights of Seas is based on the Direct-3D-10 API, supports multicore CPUs and comes with a physics engine. Also at this point we see a good scaling of the CPU at low resolutions and nearly no influence when applying high resolutions.

PT Boats, 1920 x 1080, high details, 8xAA 16xAF   Percent
AMD Leo Platform (Phenom II X6 1090T, Radeon 5870) 50.6 fps 106.75 %
Intel / Nvidia Platform (Core i7 920, GTX 470) 47.4 fps 100.00 %
  more is better


PT Boats, 1650 x 1080, medium details, 4xAA 8xAF   Percent
Intel / Nvidia Platform (Core i7 920, GTX 470) 71.7 fps 112.56 %
AMD Leo Platform (Phenom II X6 1090T, Radeon 5870) 63.7 fps 100.00 %
  more is better


PT Boats, 1280 x 1024, low details, no AA/AF   Percent
Intel / Nvidia Platform (Core i7 920, GTX 470) 79.1 fps 112.52 %
AMD Leo Platform (Phenom II X6 1090T, Radeon 5870) 70.3 fps 100.00 %
  more is better

AMD/ATI perform very well with high resolutions whereas Intel/NVIDA show its muscles in lower resolutions.


X3 Terran Conflict

X3 Terran Conflict, 1920 x 1080, high details, 8xAA 16xAF,   Percent
Intel / Nvidia Platform (Core i7 920, GTX 470) 81.53 fps 113.96 %
AMD Leo Platform (Phenom II X6 1090T, Radeon 5870) 71.54 fps 100.00 %
  more is better


X3 Terran Conflict, 1650 x 1080, medium details, 4xAA 8xAF,   Percent
Intel / Nvidia Platform (Core i7 920, GTX 470) 94.75 fps 112.74 %
AMD Leo Platform (Phenom II X6 1090T, Radeon 5870) 84.04 fps 100.00 %
  more is better


X3 Terran Conflict, 1280 x 1024, low details, no AA/AF   Percent
Intel / Nvidia Platform (Core i7 920, GTX 470) 108.76 fps 112.17 %
AMD Leo Platform (Phenom II X6 1090T, Radeon 5870) 96.28 fps 100.00 %
  more is better

This benchmark is being dominated from Intel/NVIDA in every single resolution and quality settings and the performance advantage over AMD/ATI is with 12 to 13 percent rather big.


Streetfighter 4

Street Fighter 4 comes with an extra benchmark version which makes testing you system childrens play. At low resolutions the system requirements are pretty low and we can see CPU-scaling in the results. At high resolution the graphic card becomes more important and the CPUs clock speed has less influence on the fps.

Streetfighter 4, 1920 x 1080, high details, C16xQ   Percent
Intel / Nvidia Platform (Core i7 920, GTX 470) 143.20 fps 155.84 %
AMD Leo Platform (Phenom II X6 1090T, Radeon 5870) 91.89 fps 100.00 %
  more is better


Streetfighter 4, 1650 x 1080, medium details, 8x AA,   Percent
Intel / Nvidia Platform (Core i7 920, GTX 470) 218.17 fps 151.90 %
AMD Leo Platform (Phenom II X6 1090T, Radeon 5870) 143.63 fps 100.00 %
  more is better


Streetfighter 4, 1280 x 1024, low details, no AA/AF   Percent
Intel / Nvidia Platform (Core i7 920, GTX 470) 429.43 fps 125.63 %
AMD Leo Platform (Phenom II X6 1090T, Radeon 5870) 341.82 fps 100.00 %
  more is better

Streetfighter 4 repeats the results seen in X3 Terran Conflict with the difference that the gap between Intel/NVIDA and AMD/ATI got quite a bit bigger.


World in Conflict

World in Conflict, 1920 x 1080, high details, 8xAA 16xAF   Percent
Intel / Nvidia Platform (Core i7 920, GTX 470) 66 fps 134.69 %
AMD Leo Platform (Phenom II X6 1090T, Radeon 5870) 49 fps 100.00 %
  more is better


World in Conflict, 1650 x 1080, medium details, 4xAA 8xAF   Percent
Intel / Nvidia Platform (Core i7 920, GTX 470) 114 fps 152.00 %
AMD Leo Platform (Phenom II X6 1090T, Radeon 5870) 75 fps 100.00 %
  more is better


World in Conflict, 1280 x 1024, low details, no AA/AF   Percent
Intel / Nvidia Platform (Core i7 920, GTX 470) 194 fps 173.21 %
AMD Leo Platform (Phenom II X6 1090T, Radeon 5870) 112 fps 100.00 %
  more is better

World in Conflict is also being dominated by Intel/NVIDIA and AMD/ATI doesn't see any land at all although you can see that the performance advatage shrinks the higher the resolutions and the higher the level of detail becomes.


Resident Evil 5

Resident Evil uses nearly every modern rendering technology: HDR, Hemisphere Lighting, Soft Shadows, Soft Particles, Field- und Motion-Blur oder auch Alpha to Coverage and static Ambient Occlusion. Furthermore Resident Evil 5 has been optimized for multicore architectures and already comes DirectX11 ready. By using the DirectX9 as well as the DirectX10 benchmark we can again show you CPU-scaling with low resolutions and the compared to the CPU overproportional influence of the graphics card at high resolutions.

Resident Evil 5, 1920 x 1080, high details, 8xAA 16xAF   Percent
Intel / Nvidia Platform (Core i7 920, GTX 470) 90.5 fps 109.04 %
AMD Leo Platform (Phenom II X6 1090T, Radeon 5870) 83.0 fps 100.00 %
  more is better


Resident Evil 5, 1650 x 1080, medium details, 4xAA 8xAF   Percent
Intel / Nvidia Platform (Core i7 920, GTX 470) 123.3 fps 128.71 %
AMD Leo Platform (Phenom II X6 1090T, Radeon 5870) 95.8 fps 100.00 %
  more is better


Resident Evil 5, 1280 x 1024, low details, no AA/AF   Percent
Intel / Nvidia Platform (Core i7 920, GTX 470) 139.9 fps 128.58 %
AMD Leo Platform (Phenom II X6 1090T, Radeon 5870) 108.8 fps 100.00 %
  more is better

Also Resident Evil scales better on an Intel/NVIDIA platform than with AMD/ATI but again it's suspicious that the higher resolution and level of detail the small the performance advantage of Intel/NVIDIA becomes.


Call of Juarez

Call of Juarez, 1920 x 1080, high details, 4xSSAA   Percent
AMD Leo Platform (Phenom II X6 1090T, Radeon 5870) 41.2 fps 118.73 %
Intel / Nvidia Platform (Core i7 920, GTX 470) 34.7 fps 100.00 %
  more is better


Call of Juarez, 1680 x 1050, medium details, 4xMSAA   Percent
Intel / Nvidia Platform (Core i7 920, GTX 470) 89.4 fps 107.07 %
AMD Leo Platform (Phenom II X6 1090T, Radeon 5870) 83.5 fps 100.00 %
  more is better


Call of Juarez, 1280 x 1024, low details, no AA   Percent
Intel / Nvidia Platform (Core i7 920, GTX 470) 162.8 fps 146.27 %
AMD Leo Platform (Phenom II X6 1090T, Radeon 5870) 111.3 fps 100.00 %
  more is better

With high resolutions and high details AMD/ATI is able to overtake Intel/NVIDA clearly but not with lower resolution and details. There Intel/NVIDA scores again.


Far Cry 2

Far Cry 2, 1920 x 1080, high details, 8xAA   Percent
Intel / Nvidia Platform (Core i7 920, GTX 470) 64.73 fps 115.61 %
AMD Leo Platform (Phenom II X6 1090T, Radeon 5870) 55.99 fps 100.00 %
  more is better


Far Cry 2, 1680 x 1050, medium details, 4xAA   Percent
Intel / Nvidia Platform (Core i7 920, GTX 470) 103.05 fps 135.13 %
AMD Leo Platform (Phenom II X6 1090T, Radeon 5870) 76.26 fps 100.00 %
  more is better


Far Cry 2, 1280 x 1024, low details, no AA   Percent
Intel / Nvidia Platform (Core i7 920, GTX 470) 137.53 fps 143.57 %
AMD Leo Platform (Phenom II X6 1090T, Radeon 5870) 95.79 fps 100.00 %
  more is better

Also in Far Cry Intel/NVIDA is able to show its muscles altough again we see the higher resulution and level of detail the closer the race becomes.



Page 1 - Introduction Page 5 - Synthetic Benchmarks
Page 2 - Specifications Page 6 - Gaming Benchmarks
Page 3 - Impressions Page 7 - Conclusion
Page 4 - Test conditions  



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