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alright guys I got a good one for you I'm going to take the finem 2x6 1100 T and I'm going to take 2 Radeon HD 6970 s ok yes yes this is a 69 50 but just to prove that I have successfully unlocked the card you can see here both GPUs are identical under gpu-z so I do have them performing at 100% 69 70 speeds and I'm going to be comparing the 1100 T on the 890 FX platform see I've got a crosshair for formula there and I'm going to compare it against the a 75 platform and AMD's new a8 APU so I'm going to find out what kind of a performance difference there is between their new APU platform which does have slightly higher performance per clock then at least the Athlon series so it should be pretty close to a venom - okay in terms of clock for clock performance but this is a quad core and on the higher-end platforms you can get six cores now an eight cores coming soon so let's see how this goes I'm going to be testing a variety of current titles including Crysis 2 DirectX 11 Witcher 2 dirt 3 fear 3 Battlefield Bad Company 2 and civ 5 don't mind the other things on here that's going to be for something else small change to the methodology guys I'm going to be using my 6990 because Crysis 2 apparently in spite of using the 11.6 drivers the latest profiles and the latest patch of crisis - including DirectX 11 and high-res textures still doesn't work in crossfire go figure so these are all the runs of crisis - I did trying to go OK single card multi card single card oh you guys can't see the results that I'm bringing up so you can see that we're getting some pretty good consistency there in spite of the fact that I was switching between a single 69 70 and dual 69 70s so I throw the 6990 on there all of a sudden I get 49 point 5 FPS so we're going to stick with that for our testing so I'll be testing that against the 1100 T or with the 1100 T against the a 75 platform so I've got myself a benchmarking snack bowl unrelated to that though I have finished running my tests for the 1100 T which was here so I'm running on the crosshair for formula with the 6990 and then on my other platform I've got the AMD Llano 83854 unning with exactly the same test bench with the 6990 so I ran a variety of modern games and what I found is that with an identical configuration remember with the APU we're only taking advantage of the CPU component of it because the onboard graphics turns off if you install anything higher-end then about a shoot what is this Turks I think it's 66 70 so if you install anything higher and then something that looks about like this it is going to turn itself off because it's not going to provide any additional benefit in dual graphics mode okay so we're looking at its performance strictly as a gaming CPU against the 1100 T which is Andy's cream of the cream now I think you'll find that in terms of price to performance ratio it's pretty darn impressive so the games I tested we're crisis - this is DirectX 11 with the high resolution texture pack so everything is maxed out in this game in fact I bring up my little email that I made for myself outlining all of my benchmarking settings yeah there we go okay I don't have Crysis 2 in there but whatever it's it's all maximum with the DirectX 11 and the high-res pack actually no I think I'm that okay give me set ok sorry guys for Crysis 2 I'm using all extreme presets and then I'm running out obviously 1920 by 1080 and DirectX 11 is enabled and the uber high-res textures are enabled so for Crysis 2 the 1100 T performed about 10% faster than the a8 APU with exactly the same configuration The Witcher 2 was much closer it was only about a 5% difference which is pretty much I'd say within the margin of error because I am doing game run throughs I am NOT doing canned benchmarks on Crysis 2 Witcher 2 fear 3 and Battlefield Bad Company 2 so there is some variance although I do my best to run through exactly the same way every time now dirt3 was one where the 1,100 tea just blew away the AAP you it performed about 30 percent better so 25 30 percent better and fear 3 was one where they were very close so we start to see a pattern here come in and have a closer look at the graph so we start to see a pattern here that says seventy six point two by the way sorry guys we're any game that is CPU bound or very multi-core where is going to perform better on the 1100 t platform whereas any game where we're already quite graphically bound such as The Witcher 2 or fear 3 we're not going to see much of a difference in performance that'll feel bad company 2 perhaps due to the increased CPU load in that game it does a lot of physics effects on the CPU performed about 20 22 % better on the 1100 T and finally civ 5 performed about 10% better and sieve 5 I was using a late game view of a game that I actually played I have about 40 cities so what I do is I Center it over one of my cities and then pull out all the way and see what the frame rate is in the corner so thank you guys for checking out my little gaming performance showdown between AMD's highest end cpu and then their new just phenomenal elbows can't really call it phenomenal because it's not even if etem whoa that's mind-blowing right and their new apu so stay tuned for more apu content around the 3850 and don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips from unboxings reviews and other computer videos