This week, as a lot of readers wanted us to do, we tested the gaming performance of the Phenom II x4 and Phenom II x6 coupled with an AMD Radeon HD 7970. Which brings our comparison tables to a new level having 2 Phenoms, 2 Bulldozers, 2 Core 2 and an Ivy Bridge CPU in there. We hope this starts to give you an overview of processors' gaming performance under recent 3D games with a high end graphics card and maximum graphics settings possible at a resolution of 1920x1080. Unfortunately no overclocking this time nor most popular Phenoms - we did with what we had - aka a Phenom II x4 970 and a Phenom II x6 1090T BE. Anyway let's see what the results are!

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Introduction

Find all the benchmarks/games results on the following pages.

Page 1 - Introduction	Page 8 - Crysis 2 / Dragon Age 2
Page 2 - Test Setup & Specifications	Page 9 - S.T.A.L.K.E.R. / The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim / StarCraft 2
Page 3 - Benchmarks and Games Settings	Page 10 - Power Consumption
Page 4 - 3D Mark 11 / 3D Mark Vantage	Page 11 - Summary Benchmark Results
Page 5 - Unigine Heaven / TessMark	Page 12 - Performance Index & Performance/Price
Page 6 - Alien vs. Predator / Batman: Arkham City / Dirt 2	Page 13 - Conclusion
Page 7 - Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 / BattleField 3

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