Crysis Benchmark Part 2

Here is the second part of my Crysis Benchmark as I promised. Now I have upgraded to Pentium D 940 3.20 GHz, let's now see the difference in Crysis performance!

Since Pentium D processors are naturally friendly to be overclocked, I used two clock settings in my benchmark. The first one is the original clock, which is 3.20 GHz, and the second one is the overclocked one 3.60 GHz. I got this by increasing the bus speed from 200MHz to 225 MHz (225 MHz x 16 = 3.60 GHz)

An overclocked Pentium D 940

To see my complete computer specs, please see my first post at: http://avateck.blogspot.com/2008/02/crysis-benchmark-part-1.html

I. Pentium D 940 original speed (3.20 GHz)
In this part, like usual I used two settings, one is overall high and the other is custom settings I used to play Crysis (combination of medium and high settings).

Test Run #1
Settings: High (Global settings to High)
Resolution: 1024x768
AntiAliasing: No
Demo Level: benchmark_cpu @ 7a.m.
Average FPS Results: 12.95 FPS
Screenshot:

Test Run #2
Settings: Custom
- VolumetricEffects=Medium
- Texture=High
- ObjectDetail=Medium
- Sound=Medium
- Shadows=Medium
- Water=High
- Physics=Medium
- Particles=Medium
- Shading=High
- PostProcessing=VeryHigh
- GameEffects=Medium
Resolution: 1024x768
AntiAliasing: No
Demo Level: benchmark_cpu @ 7a.m.
Average FPS Results: 15.96 FPS
Screenshot:

The result #1 shows that there is an increase of 1.05 FPS from Pentium 4 524, well it's not quite an improvement though. However, the second test shows a better result, 3.02 FPS difference from my old Pentium 4 524 or roughly 39% better performance!

II. Pentium D 940 overclocked speed (3.60 GHz)
Now let's see how Pentium D 940 performs when it is overclocked.

Test Run #1
Settings: High (Global settings to High)
Resolution: 1024x768
AntiAliasing: No
Demo Level: benchmark_cpu @ 7a.m.
Average FPS Results: 13.08 FPS

Test Run #2
Settings: Custom
- VolumetricEffects=Medium
- Texture=High
- ObjectDetail=Medium
- Sound=Medium
- Shadows=Medium
- Water=High
- Physics=Medium
- Particles=Medium
- Shading=High
- PostProcessing=VeryHigh
- GameEffects=Medium
Resolution: 1024x768
AntiAliasing: No
Demo Level: benchmark_cpu @ 7a.m.
Average FPS Results: 16.39 FPS

Now with overclocked speed. Test run #1 shows that there's only a little improvement at 13.08 FPS from 11.90 FPS at Pentium 4 524 and 12.95 FPS at original speed. And the second test show 16.39 FPS, which is only 0.43 FPS difference from the original speed.

The results conclusion is that overclocking Pentium D shows not much effect in 3D games performance. Especially Crysis, the performance depends more on video card power rather than CPU. However, a transformation from a single core processor (my old Pentium 4) to a dual core processor (Pentium D) indeed shows a significant performance. Perhaps the performance difference between these two processors is more significantly visible in general computing tasks (such as office programs, image editing, rendering image from 3D applications, etc).