Why does phenom perform better than an intel quad at high resolution in Lost Planet?

[JumpingJack]

Thanks for that info, that makes it even stranger.
Basicly the only area in which the phenom had a distinct advantage was the mem BW...

I guess it could it even be the 790FX chipset vs the X48.
But then, they both offer PCIE *16, so that shouldn't matter.

More strangeness .... I re-ran a 1280x1024 run using an HTT multiplier to set the HTT link to 800 Mhz (that's down from 2000 Mhz):

Here is the data for both runs:

Phenom 9850 2.5 GHz 2.0 GHz NB 2.0 Ghz HTT and DDR2-1066


Phenom 9850 2.5 GHz 2.0 GHz NB 800 MHz HTT and DDR2-800


The data at 10280x1024 in the article is 2.5 GHz Core 2.0 GHz NB 2.0 GHz HTT and DDR2-800

Neither snow or cave show much of a huge difference, Snow gets about 8 FPS (EDIT at low 'CPU limited regime' resoluionts) and generally better with DDR2-1066 but the HTT at 800 has no effect.

jack